Memories

Spec sheet

Product

Memories is a free and open source photo management app for Nextcloud.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Privacy

The privacy page says the service does not collect personally identifiable information and stores information on the user's device and servers they choose to connect to.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Support

Users can get help through the Discord community, file bugs and feature requests on GitHub, or ask general Nextcloud questions in the Nextcloud forums.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Albums and sharing

Users can create albums, share them with other server users or anyone online, and collaborate with other users on the same Nextcloud server.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Android app

A dedicated Memories Android client is available in early access through Google Play, F-Droid, and GitHub Releases.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Audience and limits

The FAQ says Memories prioritizes commonly used features over advanced needs such as professional or photographer-focused metadata features.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Data portability

Memories stores most metadata in photo EXIF headers and uses the existing filesystem structure, which the maker says helps users migrate without losing data.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Maps

Memories extracts GPS data from photos for a map view and provides reverse geocoding to find photos by place name.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Metadata and maps

Users can edit photo EXIF fields including title, description, GPS location, date, time, and tags; the map view plots photos using GPS data and reverse geocoding.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Metadata editing

Users can edit photo titles, descriptions, GPS locations, dates, times, and tags, including across multiple photos at once.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Mobile

An Android Memories client is available in early access; the web app is responsive on Android and iOS, and official Nextcloud mobile apps can automatically upload photos and videos.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Mobile uploads

Official Nextcloud mobile apps for Android and iOS can automatically upload photos and videos to the server.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Notable limitation

The maker says video transcoding can be compute intensive and may not work on a Raspberry Pi.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Recommended integrations

The maker recommends Preview Generator for performance, Recognize for AI tagging, Photos for album support, and optionally Face Recognition for face recognition.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Requirements

Memories requires Nextcloud 26 or later, PHP 8.0 or later, a MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL database, Imagick, ffmpeg and ffprobe, and distributed memcache such as Redis.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Self-hosted storage

Photos are stored on the user's own Nextcloud instance, and the page says they can be encrypted with a secret key.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Storage and privacy

It is self-hosted, so photos are stored on the user's Nextcloud instance; the maker says users can encrypt data with a secret key.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Storage compatibility

Memories works with most Nextcloud setups, including external storage, but indexing external storage may be slow because files must be downloaded.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Tagging integrations

Memories integrates with the Recognize and Face Recognition Nextcloud apps for AI keyword and face tagging.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Timeline

The timeline lets users jump to dates in photo libraries, including libraries with hundreds of thousands of photos.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Video

Memories includes an on-demand video transcoder for adaptive streaming and supports VA-API or NVENC hardware acceleration.Read 11 Oct 2026 · memories.gallery

Where Specifiction places it

• Photo Storage Services#67 of 717.4