Photos (for Nextcloud)

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About this app

- Metadata support even for non-JPEG media
Bundled with the Exiv2 library, this app supports reading metadata from image formats that are not currently supported by the server-side reader, such as HEIC and JXL. Video metadata is also supported.

- Better albums
Client-side albums provide extra features compared with server-side albums, like inserting memos and maps between photos. You can also customize album covers and sorting.

- Simple image editing
Includes various color adjustment tools and effect filters.

- JPEG XL support
JXL is a next-generation image format with superior compression ratio. While JXL is not currently supported by Nextcloud or Android, this app includes a JXL decoder.

- Open source
The app source code is available on GitHib under the GPL license.

- More
Map
Face grouping support via the server-side Recognize or Face Recognition app
Various AI image enhancement models, like 4x super-resolution
Shared albums
and more

- Supported formats
JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, GIF, JPEG XL
MP4, WebM (for videos, codec support varies by device)

* This is the ad-supported version. It has the same feature set as the paid version. Please consider buying the app if you like it, as your support is very much needed!

Translations:
- Catalan/català (contributed by Arnau Mora)
- Chinese/中文 (contributed by zerolin, 老兄)
- Czech/Čeština (contributed by Fjuro, Skyhawk)
- Dutch/Nederlands (contributed by Micha)
- Finnish/Suomi (contributed by pHamala)
- French/Français (contributed by Choukajohn, Fymyte, mgreil)
- German/Deutsch (contributed by Andreas, MrNobody, Niclas H, Odious, PhilProg, shagn)
- Greek/Ελληνικά (contributed by Chris Karasoulis)
- Italian/Italiano (contributed by Albe)
- Japanese/日本語 (contributed by yoking)
- Polish/Polski (contributed by Shieldziak, szymok)
- Portuguese/Português (contributed by fernosan)
- Russian/Русский (contributed by kvasenok, meixnt & eriane, RandomRoot)
- Slovak/slovenčina (contributed by Števob)
- Spanish/Español (contributed by luckkmaxx)
- Turkish/Türkçe (contributed by aliyasiny65)

For bug reports, contributions, troubleshooting and guides, please visit the repo: https://github.com/nc-photos/nc-photos


- About Nextcloud
Nextcloud is a self-hosted productivity platform that keeps you in control. Learn more: https://nextcloud.com
* This app and its author are not affiliated with Nextcloud or the company. This is a third-party app.


Screenshots on this page contain photos by:
- Dillon Kydd on Unsplash
- rawkkim on Unsplash
- Video by Yaroslava Borz from Pexels
- and others
Easily manage photos and videos on your Nextcloud server
Updated on
Jul 12, 2026

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Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
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    App info and performance and Device or other IDs
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  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

284 reviews
Eli
September 11, 2022
I really like this app. I'm slowly transitioning years of my Google photos/videos to Nextcloud and will eventually purchase the paid version. Just one thing I wished it had. It would be ealeir to at least see an image or possibly clips in a loop of your videos while you scroll. Similar to the other photo app. Right now you just see a blank box and not know what video I'm opening up.
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nkming2
September 11, 2022
Hi, the app uses previews generated by your server, and by default Nextcloud does not generate previews for video files. Please check the guide at https://gitlab.com/nkming2/nc-photos/-/wikis/help/video-previews to learn more on how to enable it.
Elwin
April 29, 2023
Beautiful app that seems to work nicely. Will it get a folder view as well? I have categorized all my photo's in folders, which makes it easy to find the photo's I want to view. Currently I have to scroll through tens of thousands of photo's and try and get lucky to find the specific ones I need. The webUI has the feature to browse by folder, which is perfect. I was hoping the app would have the same functionality, that would make it an easy 5* app for me.
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Christopher Jackson (darkdragn)
October 3, 2021
This app is amazing! I love it, essentially Google photos for NextCloud. I've just had two little gripes: 1. Photo based albums only let me select a couple of folders at the top level of my next cloud. Anything with nested folders or folders that are deep nested I can navigate to but not select. I was able to manually mod the json to get the target folder I want working, so I'm assuming it's a gui glitch. 2. I would love different sort options in photos view. Group by folder, group by date
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