Like a photo app
Timeline, albums, search, events, tags, and favorites.
Frontend-only demo
This public showcase uses synthetic media and never connects to a private PhotoDrive library.
Photos + Drive, built for one family
Your family library. On your terms.
PhotoDrive brings the familiar photo timeline and cloud-drive experience into one private, self-hosted home for the people you trust.
- One library for photos and files
- Invite-only family access
- Backups designed in from day one
Like a drive
Folders, documents, previews, uploads, and sorting.
Unlike a black box
Your host, your accounts, your storage, your recovery plan.
One simple home
The best parts of a photo library and a file drive.
Photos and Files are two clean views over the same originals, so organizing an album or folder never wastes storage by duplicating bytes.
Photos
Your memories, in a familiar timeline.
Browse years and months naturally, then narrow a large library without losing your place.
- Sort and filter by date, type, tags, or favorites
- Search photos, timeline events, and capture dates
- Curate albums without making another copy
- Favorites, responsive previews, and a full-screen viewer
Drive
Real folders for everything else.
Keep documents and media together in one catalog, with a proper file workspace beside Photos.
- Folders, breadcrumbs, sorting, and recursive search
- Resumable file and whole-folder uploads
- Inline previews, batch actions, and recoverable Trash
- Share folders or selected albums privately
Made for a household, not a platform
Private sharing without account chaos.
Create exactly the family accounts you want, decide what each person can see, and keep sign-in familiar.
You define the users
Owners create, manage, or disable invite-only family accounts.
Share only what you mean to
Give another family member access to a folder or a curated album.
Simple sign-in
Allow Google OAuth or a password. Google sign-in never creates an uninvited account.
Comfortable for everyone
English and Spanish, light and dark themes, and a responsive interface.
Private by default. Recoverable by design.
Your memories deserve more than a single hard drive.
PhotoDrive separates durable originals, the catalog your family recognizes, and a replaceable local speed layer. Each part has one clear job.
Private S3immutable originalsSQLitefolders & metadataLocal cachesafe to rebuild
Verified backups
Matched catalog and user snapshots are restored, integrity-checked, uploaded, and remotely verified twice daily.
Immutable, checked originals
Private S3 keeps content-addressed originals outside the app host, with SHA-256 verification during ingestion.
Credentials stay private
The browser never receives an S3 key or credential, and sign-in sessions remain in secure HttpOnly cookies.
Recovery you can understand
Trash is manual and recoverable, caches are disposable, and owner tools make backup readiness visible.
Make it yours
Your photos. Your files. Your family's place.
PhotoDrive is a personal project you can self-host and shape around your own infrastructure.