A private photo and video library that runs on your own home server, with beautiful native apps for every screen.
Phones, cameras and old hard drives all land in one timeline, organised by day, month and year.
Originals stay on your server as ordinary files. No storage limits beyond your own disks.
Frameleaf runs on hardware you already own. Three steps from an empty box to a library the whole family uses.
Docker Compose on any Linux machine, or a guided install on Unraid, Synology and TrueNAS. Claim it from your phone with an 8-character setup code.
The apps back up every phone in the house. Import a Google Photos export or your iCloud library, or point Frameleaf at folders already on your disks.
Browse, search and edit on any screen at home. Add Frameleaf Cloud if you want remote access and an off-site backup, and only then.
Your photos aren't a subscription. They live on a box you own, and Frameleaf makes that box a pleasure to use from anywhere.
Browse, rate and select at full speed, with an info panel for every file. Filter, compare, edit or send to Studio without leaving the grid.
Familiar faces, favourite places, pets, documents and a few photos worth another look.
Face recognition runs on your server and never leaves it. Name someone once and find them across decades.
Press ⌘K and type what you remember. Text in photos, places, people and dates, all understood.
On this day, trips and years in review, ready to play full screen.
Partners, shared spaces with roles, and links with passwords, expiry and download control.
Duplicates, damaged files, Live Photo pairing and preservation packages, gathered in one hub.
Storage, backups, jobs and analytics for whoever runs the server.
A full video editor built into your library. Scroll through it.
Titles, video, camera audio and music on their own tracks, with ripple edits.
Scopes, looks and lift, gamma and gain wheels.
Gain, pan and EQ per track, music that ducks under voices, and local AI music generation.
Transcribe dialogue into timed captions you can edit.
Clean up noise and compression, previewed first.
H.265, H.264, AV1 or ProRes up to 4K, rendered on your own server.
This is the Frameleaf photo editor, running live in your browser. Drag a slider, press Auto, try a preset or crop the photo. Your original is never touched.
Edits stay in this browser tab.
Months and years open as big, photo-filled cards. Scroll a decade in seconds.
Written in Kotlin with Material 3, with offline libraries and a full video editor.
People, places, dates and the words inside photos, not just what fits on your phone.
On this day, trips and years in review, with highlight videos made by your server.
Adjust, Looks, Crop, Clean Up and Masks, saved as a new version on your server.
A photo counts as backed up only when the server proves its copy is identical.
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.
A photo library is a forty-year project. Frameleaf is designed so that nothing about it depends on us.
Your photos sit on your disks exactly as you uploaded them. Frameleaf never writes to an original.
Descriptions, ratings, dates, locations and tags are written to XMP sidecars that any photo app can read.
Every edit is rendered fresh from the original, so there's no quality loss, and the original is one click away.
Your server sends nothing about you anywhere. It can't be switched on by a setting or a flag.
Map tiles and AI models come from Frameleaf's own servers, and nothing is fetched from anyone else's.
The Frameleaf Library community edition is AGPLv3. Read it, run it forever, and leave whenever you like with everything intact.
Photos go from your phone to your own server first. Frameleaf Cloud is optional, and nothing reaches it unless you link your server.
Your server dials out to a relay that never decrypts its traffic. No ports to open, and the certificate's key stays on your server.
A bucket for your server alone, encrypted with a key the storage provider never keeps. The first terabyte is included.
Pair with a friend who also runs Frameleaf and back up to each other's disks, at no extra storage cost. Neither they nor the cloud can see your photos.
Rent a GPU for jobs your server can't handle, like upscaling or restoring old video. Faces and search always stay home.
Frameleaf is a set of containers. If your box runs Docker, it runs Frameleaf. Step-by-step guides cover the three most popular NAS systems.
Add a Frameleaf stack, paste the release Compose file and point it at a share for your photos.
Docker Compose Manager plugin. Read the guideCreate a project in Container Manager from the Frameleaf Compose file. Your library lives in a shared folder.
Container Manager in DSM. Read the guideCreate datasets for photos and the database, then install the Frameleaf Compose file as a custom app on Community Edition 24.10 or later.
Custom app from YAML. Read the guideThree commands from an empty folder to a running library. You need 6 GB of RAM and two CPU cores, on amd64 or arm64.
# Get the Compose file and settings from the latest release
wget -O docker-compose.yml https://github.com/Frameleaf/frameleaf-app/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml
wget -O .env https://github.com/Frameleaf/frameleaf-app/releases/latest/download/example.env
# Start Frameleaf in the background
docker compose up -dEverything that runs on your server is free and never locked. Frameleaf Cloud is a single subscription for remote access and backup, with AI processing paid by use.
Server and individual supporters get 20% off: $7.99 a month or $79.92 a year.
Ingest, proof, edit and deliver client work from your own server; that part is free. Cloud Pro publishes your studio website and client galleries on your own domain, with managed connections, a faster relay and priority support.
$29.99 a month, or $299.90 a year
The Frameleaf Library community edition is licensed under AGPLv3. Read the code, run it forever, and leave whenever you like with every original intact.
Install Frameleaf on your server, then sign in from the app on your phone.