PiGallery2 vs Tonfotos
PiGallery2
bpatrik.github.ioTonfotos
tonfotos.comSide by side
| Figure | PiGallery2 | Tonfotos |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 3 |
| Spec score · Photo Management Software | 8.0 (#19) | 8.7 (#8) |
| Maps | It plots photo location data on OpenStreetMap or Mapbox, supports custom map providers, and can display GPX tracks. | Geo-tagged photos are grouped and displayed on an interactive map. |
| Purpose | PiGallery2 is a directory-first photo gallery website designed for low-resource servers, including Raspberry Pi. | Tonfotos organizes photo and video collections, removes duplicates, recognizes people, and helps preserve family stories. |
| Search | Search supports boolean expressions, negation, exact and wildcard matches, autocomplete, and metadata filters. | The product searches across people, events, tags, dates and shooting locations. |
Plans
Tonfotos
- Free licenseFree
- Personal license$59, paid once
- Family license$159, paid once
In their own words
PiGallery2
PiGallery2 has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Tonfotos
Tonfotos organizes photo and video collections, removes duplicates, recognizes people, and helps preserve family histories. Its face recognition groups people and learns from identifications, including faces partly visible or shown at different ages. Users can record relationships and genealogical details, view family ties in a tree, and search an archive by people, events, tags, dates, or shooting locations. Archives can remain on a PC, NAS, or removable drive, with offline use described for disconnected drives or shared folders. TonfotosSync for iOS and Android sends new phone photos to a computer or NAS archive after QR-code pairing. The app can also download photos and videos shared with the user on Telegram. It indexes RAW and HEIC formats and can display HEIC without conversion to JPEG. Other tools include albums, slideshows, photo conversion, and duplicate removal. The free lifetime license has full functionality but limits the number of people in photos. The Personal license costs $59 once and supports unlimited people for one user or device.