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My Photo Diary

A photo diary for the family on your own NAS. Albums hold photos, videos, text, maps and GPS tracks in the order you choose, like pages in a diary rather than a feed. It runs as a Docker container and is used in the browser or with the Android app. The photos stay on your NAS.

Demo login, if it does not sign you in by itself: user mpd-demo, password mpd-demo. The demo is read-only.

An album: a line of text, a map of the journey, a photo
An album with text, a map and photos. Demo data.

What it does

The album overview with two albums
The album overview.

Your data

Albums are plain JSON files next to the photos, readable without the program. Nothing is uploaded, there is no face recognition and no tracking. The only exception is the writing help, which sends one text block to Anthropic if you switch it on.

Installation

One Docker container on a Synology, TrueNAS, unRAID or QNAP NAS, a Raspberry Pi or any Linux server. A Synology package is in preparation. At home it works without further setup; from outside you reach it through a VPN such as Tailscale, a Cloudflare tunnel or the reverse proxy of your NAS.

Licence

The core is free software under the AGPL-3.0 and will be published as source code. The modules search, statistics, tours and places form MPD Plus and are unlocked with a licence file per installation. The price is not set yet; at the moment everything can be used free of charge.

Questions and bug reports by mail.