Pictaria Server

Understand, enrich, and curate your entire library.

A self-hosted container that sits beside Immich and makes decades of photos legible and actionable — free, open source, and private by design.

Quickstart View on GitHub

Pictaria Server Insights page with a year of the photos-per-year timeline expanded, showing monthly counts, the people and places in that year, and a where-you-were travel strip

Insights — click any year and see the people, places, and travel inside it

The modules

One container. Five superpowers.

Connects to Immich via a limited permissions API key
Cannot delete anything in your Immich collection
No telemetry to Pictaria; external calls only support features you choose, such as cloud AI, voice, weather, and place names

Insights

Your library, finally legible. Who you photograph, where you've been, and when — every stat is clickable and lands on the actual photos.

A browsable, clickable timeline of your years of photos
A constellation graph of the people in your life
Send any arbitrary slice to Enrich and/or Curate

Pictaria Server Insights people constellation — a graph of faces linked by who appears together, with most-photographed and together rankings

Insights — the people constellation, wired by who appears together

Enrich

AI captions, tags, and quality scores for every photo — searchable in Pictaria and, if you choose, written back to Immich.

Run Enrich on your own hardware with LM Studio or Ollama
Or use your own key for a cloud provider, including private models from Venice
Schedule a daily budget for new photos or start a run whenever you like
Edit the taxonomy and prompts to your liking

Pictaria Server Enrich page with a model selector, run status, and a queue of trip photo groups ready to run

Enrich — trip groups queued for the model you choose

Curate

Thirty thousand photos of "which of these five is the keeper?" answered at keyboard speed — with an optional AI referee that pre-picks the best shot in every burst.

Burst and near-duplicate stacks with side-by-side compare
Keep the best, skip the rest — one keystroke
Works with or without AI

Pictaria Server Curate page showing burst stacks of photos with AI-suggested best picks, quality scores, tags, and one-click keep buttons

Curate — stacks with a suggested best pick, one keystroke to decide

Smart Albums

Create rule-based albums in Immich that maintain themselves: people, places, dates, cameras, and more — updated on your schedule.

"John and Jenny in San Francisco" stays current forever
Filters compose: people ∩ places ∩ time ∩ camera
Writes real Immich albums you can use anywhere

Pictaria Server managed Smart Albums list with rule-based albums, their schedules, match counts, and last-run results

Smart Albums — self-maintaining rules, written back to Immich

Frame hub

The info and command center for every Pictaria Frame in the house. Understand what is being viewed, where and how often.

See and control all Frames from your phone browser
Watch voice command and display activity
Additional services like voice/TTS config, weather location and more
Frame management works on your LAN (go remote with Tailscale)

Pictaria Server Frame Metrics page with a per-device display ledger and a grid of the most-shown photos

Frame hub — every display's activity, counted locally

Quickstart

Two files. One command.

If you run Immich, you already know the drill: a docker-compose.yml, a .env with three values, and docker compose up. The image below pins Pictaria Server v1.1.0 — the current release.

services:
  pictaria:
    image: ghcr.io/pictaria-ai/pictaria-server:1.1.0 # explicit release
    container_name: pictaria
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "4080:4080"
    environment:
      IMMICH_BASE_URL: ${IMMICH_BASE_URL}   # your Immich URL
      IMMICH_API_KEY: ${IMMICH_API_KEY}     # an Immich API key
      APP_PASSWORD: ${APP_PASSWORD}         # protects the web UI
    volumes:
      - pictaria-data:/data

volumes:
  pictaria-data:

Then open http://your-server:4080. Full walkthrough in the documentation — AI providers, voice, weather, and backups are all configured from the web UI afterwards. And once it's running, the Server guide explains every tab for whoever uses it day to day.

Free & open source

Pictaria Server is free — no license keys, no feature gates, no telemetry. The source is on GitHub; the container is on GHCR. If it earns a place in your home, there's a completely optional supporter badge.

Pictaria Server on GitHub Read the docs