¶ Intro
Pigallery2 is a fast, lightweight photo gallery for browsing and sharing your image collection. Designed for self-hosting, it automatically indexes your photo folders and presents them in a sleek, responsive interface - perfect for organizing personal albums or hosting a private photo archive.
¶ Availability
Please check our application chart to see which GigaDrive Plans are eligible to install this application.
¶ Features
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Photo viewer : Nice photo viewer with optional information panel that shows all important information about the photo
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Map : PiGallery2 reads the location data of the photos and puts them on a nice map. It by default supports OpenStreetMap and Mapbox, but you can also add you own favourite map provider. The gallery also supports *.gpx file to show your tracked path on the map too. It recognize different type of activities (like: running, flying) from the *.gpx files. The app shows these activities with different color and icon on the map.
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Advanced searching : app supports full boolean logic with negation and exact or wildcard search. It also provides handy suggestions with autocomplete.
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Sharing : You can share your photo folders with your friends. The sharing link can be also password protected. Limitations: you cannot share search results.
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Video playback : It also supports *.mp4, *.webm, *.ogv and *.ogg files.
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Local filters : Rich filter panel, where you can further filter your directory or search results.
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Blog : You can add *.md files to your directory and app will show them. You can tag section in the *.md files with , like: to attach them to a date. Then, if you group by date, they will show up at the assigned day.
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Logical Albums : You can create logical albums (a.k.a.: Saved search) from any search query. Current limitation: It is not possible to create albums from a manually picked photos.
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Faces : PiGallery2 can read face reagions from photo metadata. Current limitation: No ML-based, automatic face detection.
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Random link : You can create a link that will serve a random photo from your gallery. You can use this link with 3rd party applications, like with an automatic wallpaper changer gadget.
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Rich settings : PiGallery2 has a rich settings page where you can easily set up the gallery. Click here to see all the setting in the live demo.
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supported formats:
- images: jpg, jpeg, jpe, webp, png, gif, svg
- videos: mp4, ogg, ogv, webm
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Rendering directories as it is
- Listing subdirectories recursively
- Listing photos in a nice grid layout
- supporting most common image formats
- showing tag/keywords, locations, GPS coordinates for photos
- rendering photos on demand (on scroll)
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On the fly thumbnail generation in several sizes
- prioritizes thumbnail generation (generating thumbnail first for the visible photos)
- saving generated thumbnails to TEMP folder for reuse
- supporting several core CPU
- supporting hardware acceleration (sharp)
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Custom lightbox for full screen photo and video viewing
- keyboard support for navigation
- showing low-res thumbnail while full image loads
- Information panel for showing Exif info
- Automatic playing
- gesture support (swipe left, right, up)
- shortcut support
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Client side caching (directories and search results)
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Rendering photos with GPS coordinates on open street map
- .gpx file support: rendering paths to map
- supports OSM and Mapbox by default, but you can add any provider that has a tile url
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Indexes Gallery to DB for a snappy user experience
- Both MySQL and SQLite support
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Faces (persons) support
- reads Adobe’s XMP Face region metadata. (It is defined by the Metadata Working G roup (MWG).)
- shows face bounding box over images
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internalization / translation support
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Nice design
- responsive design (phone, tablet desktop support)
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Setup page
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Random photo url
- You can generate an url that returns a random photo from your gallery. You can use this feature to develop 3rd party applications, like: changing desktop background
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video support
- fully supports .mp4 files and partially (might have errors with safari and IE) supports .ogg, .ogv, .webm files
- uses ffmpeg and ffprobe to generate video thumbnails
- can transcode videos to mp4 for better support
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Markdown based blogging support
- You can write some note in the *.md files for every directory
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job scheduling support, with the following supported task
- converting/transcoding videos
- indexing db
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.pg2conf UI modifying files
- List of these files are passed down to the UI modify its behaviour.
- Currently, supported custom, per folder sorting.
¶ Installing Pigallery2
- Navigate to the Application Manager page and search for
pigallery2. - Click icon to open the installation window and tap Install to start the installation process.
- Once the installation is complete, click icon to open the Access Info page. Then click Go To Application to access
pigallery2.