PhotoPrism® is 100% self-funded and independent. The ongoing development and maintenance of our software is funded directly by its users through individual memberships, team plans, professional services, voluntary donations, and a share of the revenue from PikaPods, our official cloud hosting partner.
Our Team
PhotoPrism was co-founded by Michael Mayer and Theresa Gresch and is operated by PhotoPrism UG in Berlin, Germany. Our core team is supported by a diverse and growing community that helps us develop, translate, document, test, and improve PhotoPrism.
How We Fund Our Work
PhotoPrism® is free software because we value freedom. We therefore publish as much of our source code and documentation as possible so that anyone can use, study, modify, and redistribute it. Our Community Edition is not a limited preview of a commercial product. It includes all essential features, with no limit on how many pictures you can manage, and no advertising or business model built around your personal data.
Paid plans help fund the continued development and maintenance of PhotoPrism while providing additional features and services for those who need them. Plus members gain access to additional maps, more convenient user management, and a direct line to our team. Teams and organizations benefit from additional roles, configuration options, commercial licensing, professional support, and services tailored to their operational needs.
This model allows us to keep PhotoPrism independent, continue investing in the open-source project, and build sustainable products and services for both individual and professional users.
What We Value
- Freedom. The Community Edition is published under the GNU Affero General Public License, a copyleft license that protects your freedom to use, study, modify, and share the software.
- Privacy. Your pictures are yours. We will never sell your data or build our business around exploiting it. Self-hosting keeps you in control of where your files are stored. Team and Enterprise editions can run fully on-premises and are designed to support your GDPR compliance requirements.
- Independence. Our users fund our work, so we answer to them — not investors or advertisers. This gives us the freedom to reject revenue that would compromise their trust.
- Community. Maintainers of non-commercial open source projects and regular volunteers are welcome to contact us for free access to many of our paid products and services. We also support the projects we depend on by sponsoring their work, contributing improvements upstream, and sharing development resources.
- Sustainability. We build PhotoPrism for the long term, with software designed to last and a business model that supports continued development. We also care about the environment, so our office and hosting infrastructure are powered by 100% climate-neutral, renewable energy.
Get in Touch
For business inquiries, feedback, and general questions, email us at hello@photoprism.app. Questions about a membership go to membership@photoprism.app. You can find our company details, business hours, and additional contact information on our contact page.
