Chevereto is a mature, self-hosted image and video hosting platform — an Imgur/Flickr alternative trusted since 2007. It lets you build your own media-sharing website on your own server, with complete control over your content, data and platform rules. Albums, categories, tags, multi-user accounts and a full API combine into a complete media-sharing solution.

Key Features

• Media management — Images and videos organised with albums, categories and tags
• Multi-user accounts — Registration, user profiles, two-factor authentication and roles
• Granular privacy controls — Content-level privacy settings and user management
• Extensive API — A full API for integration and building on the platform
• Multi-language — Full internationalisation with support for 30+ languages
• Multi-tenant — Host multiple independent sites from a single installation
• Performance — CDN support, caching, image optimisation and AVIF format
• Customisation — Themes, palettes, custom semantics and keyboard shortcuts

Why Use Chevereto?

If you want to host your own image-sharing community or a personal media platform free from platform restrictions and shutdowns, Chevereto gives you complete autonomy. It is mature, performance-focused, and available in free and paid editions depending on the features you need.

Use Cases

• Personal image hosting
• Community media galleries and forums
• Photo-sharing websites
• Replacing Imgur with a self-hosted alternative

Platform

Web (PHP) — runs on any server with minimal requirements; Docker deployment available

Licence

CRITICAL NOTE: Chevereto is NOT fully open source. The Chevereto Free edition is open source under AGPL-3.0. Chevereto Lite and Chevereto Pro are proprietary commercial editions distributed under the proprietary Chevereto License.

Alternatives

• Piwigo — fully open-source photo gallery

Website

chevereto.com