Photoview is a media gallery solution for managing and viewing photos and videos, optimized for high performance and simplicity. It allows users to organize their media through a sleek interface that supports folders, tagging, and easy search functionality. With powerful indexing and thumbnailing, Photoview makes large media libraries accessible and visually navigable, allowing for streamlined access and sharing.
Key Features
- Closely tied to the file system. The website presents the images found on the local filesystem of the server; directories are mapped to albums.
- User management. Each user is created along with a path on the local filesystem, photos within that path can be accessed by that user.
- Sharing. Albums, as well as individual media, can easily be shared with a public link, the link can optionally be password protected.
- Made for photography. Photoview is built with photographers in mind, and thus supports RAW file formats, and EXIF parsing.
- Video support. Many common video formats are supported. Videos will automatically be optimized for web.
- Face recognition. Faces will automatically be detected in photos, and photos of the same person will be grouped together.
- Performant. Thumbnails are automatically generated and photos first load when they are visible on the screen. In full screen, thumbnails are displayed until the high-resolution image has been fully loaded.
- Secure. All media resources are protected with a cookie-token, all passwords are properly hashed, and the API uses a strict CORS policy.