Memories — FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance. It was shared on Show HN in 2024 and received 797 upvotes on Hacker News. Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Free and open source Nextcloud app. Memories is a self-hosted app, which means that your photos are stored on your own Nextcloud instance and not on someone else's servers. Memories will automatically extract EXIF metadata from your photos as they are uploaded. Memories shows your photos in a familiar timeline view, which lets you instantly jump to any point of time in your photo library, even if it has hundreds of thousands of photos. You can also share albums with other users on your Nextcloud server or with anyone on the internet. You can also give the transcoding process a boost by using VA-API or NVENC hardware acceleration. You can also find all photos at a location with its name with accurate reverse geocoding. Fast & Battle Tested Memories is built with performance in mind. It is designed and highly optimized for handling large photo libraries even when running on modest hardware such as a Raspberry Pi. No Lock-In Memories stores most of the metadata in the EXIF headers of your photos, which means that you can easily migrate to other solutions without losing your data. Introducing it on Hacker News, the author wrote: "Memories is a FOSS Google Photos alternative that you can self-host (it runs as a Nextcloud plugin). Website: https://memories.gallery/ GitHub: https://github.com/pulsejet/memories Demo Server: https://demo.memories.gallery/apps/memories/ (demo runs in San Francisco on a free-tier cloud vm) Memories has been built ground-up for high performance and is extremely fast when configured correctly."