LycheeOrg/Lychee
Lychee
Lychee is a self-hosted photo management system and digital asset manager used to upload, organize, and share photo collections. It functions as a web-based gallery that enables the categorization of images through tags, nested albums, and metadata extraction.
The platform distinguishes itself as an e-commerce image gallery and white-label portfolio, offering integrated payment gateways for selling digital images under custom licenses. It includes asset protection tools such as image watermarking and hotlink prevention, alongside branding options to remove default identifiers.
The system covers broad capabilities for media handling and access control, including GPS map visualization, multi-source image imports, and role-based permissions. It manages user administration through group management, storage quotas, and secure sharing via password-protected or encrypted links.
The application is available for deployment via Docker using pre-configured compose files for self-hosted installation.
Features
- Self-Hosted Photo Platforms - Provides a complete self-hosted platform for organizing, storing, and managing personal image libraries.
- Public Gallery Shares - Allows publishing photos and albums to the public via URLs with optional password protection.
- Secure File Sharing - Implements secure image sharing via encrypted links and hotlink protection.
- Password Protected Links - Enables secure distribution of photo albums via password-protected and encrypted sharing links.
- Media Asset Management - Provides a web interface to upload, move, rename, and delete photos to maintain structured collections.
- Photo Tagging - Enables assigning markers to individual or multiple photos for efficient retrieval and organization.
- Media Asset Indexes - Maintains a structured database of file paths and metadata to enable fast filtering and retrieval of photos.
- Digital Asset Managers - Functions as a digital asset manager to categorize large image collections using tags and nested albums.
- Image Metadata Extraction - Automatically extracts technical specifications, timestamps, and camera settings from image EXIF data.
- Media Album Organization - Enables grouping photos into nested albums with customizable layouts and tag-based smart filters.
- Multi-Source Image Ingestion - Facilitates ingesting images from local computers, remote servers, URLs, or cloud storage services.
- Photo Management Systems - Implements a comprehensive photo management system for uploading, organizing, and viewing digital collections.
- Granular Access Controls - Provides granular access control to restrict or share content based on specific rights per album.
- Role-Based Access Control - Manages content visibility and access via a hierarchy of user groups and album-level permissions.
- Digital Image Stores - Includes integrated payment gateways for selling digital images under custom commercial licenses.
- E-commerce Image Galleries - Ships a photo sharing platform with integrated payment gateways for selling images under specific licenses.
- Payment Gateway Integrations - Integrates payment gateways to facilitate the commercial sale of digital images under custom licenses.
- Local Directory Synchronizations - Imports photos from server directories and detects duplicates using filename or hash verification.
- Geographic Media Visualizations - Displays images on a dedicated map view based on their embedded GPS metadata.
- Image Watermarking - Protects intellectual property by applying custom image watermarks with adjustable opacity and positioning.
- Image Watermarking - Provides tools to apply custom watermarks to photos to protect intellectual property.
- Hash-Based Duplicate Detection - Identifies redundant image files by comparing unique cryptographic hashes instead of filenames.
- Media Map Markers - Transforms geographic metadata from image headers into visual markers on an interactive map interface.
- Immersive Web Interfaces - Provides a full-screen, distraction-free gallery browsing experience with keyboard navigation.
- White Labeling - Supports custom themes and layouts to remove default identifiers and establish a professional brand identity.
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