Lychee Reviews & Product Details

Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space. That's usually the best option, as hosting your images in a remote service leaves you at the expense of the owner of that service. Lychee fills that gap in the market beautifully, using a snappy and beautiful interface and very little resources. I find really interesting the concept of "smart albums", that organize your pictures in special albums (apart from your regular albums) depending on specific criteria, like the amount the stars received.

There's another really good thing about Lychee, and that's how easy it is to install it. It uses PHP, so you don't need a high-end server to run it, so that's great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lychee's elegance and simplicity is also its weaker point. It lacks a user management system, it would be great to be able to share albums with other people. Also, the development process and release cycles seem a little bit slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how easy they make it to search your photos. This helps tremendously with organization and for people that have a large amount of photos. One thing that most other photo applications do not have is not only the ability to share photos, but to password protect them if you choose to do so. I have never felt more in control of all of my photos! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do wish that it had the ability to integrate seamlessly with other applications and also with browsers like Chrome. I'd love to see integration with Gmail and Chrome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lychee is fairly easy to use. Uploading images and sharing images had never been easier! The self housing platform is the cherry on top! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Learning how to install and what all of the technical terms that the software uses is a bit tedious but those are the only downfalls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I installed Lychee on my Raspberry Pi (old model B) and the result is amazing! The install was really easy with Nginx and performances excellent. You can then create your own server or host to not share your picture with already existing Cloud companies. Another good point is the design and UX of the interface. It's all in simplicity but with a modern dark theme. Last point, the plugin system that can help you to have additional functionalities. One that I use is the plugin that helps to synchronize your pictures from an external host (in my case Dropbox). I take a picture from my phone that is synchronized on Dropbox and then my self-hosted Lychee gets it automatically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To improve performances to the next level, the lazy loading of albums should be implemented. Also, a theming interface could be great but only if performances are not impacted! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space. That's usually the best option, as hosting your images in a remote service leaves you at the expense of the owner of that service. Lychee fills that gap in the market beautifully, using a snappy and beautiful interface and very little resources. I find really interesting the concept of "smart albums", that organize your pictures in special albums (apart from your regular albums) depending on specific criteria, like the amount the stars received.

There's another really good thing about Lychee, and that's how easy it is to install it. It uses PHP, so you don't need a high-end server to run it, so that's great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lychee's elegance and simplicity is also its weaker point. It lacks (as far as I know) a user management system, it would be great to be able to share albums with other people. Also, the development process and release cycles seem a little bit slow. According to the official github, the next release is to be expected soon enough, the last being from January 2016. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The performance of the photoviewing. Even though its a browser based tool, showing images is near native speed, as long as you have a good connection to the server its hosted on.

Furthermore I like that the interface has a dark tone, this is both great for not burning your eyes out, as well as bringing attention to the images, which is most likely what you want.

Its also extremely simple to install, and has very few dependencies, none of which can't be installed through the ordinary package repos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The sharability. Currently this application is a strictly single-user tool, with some options to share photos, but no options for guest accounts.

Also there is no support at all for videos, which I can agree is maybe not required for a professional photographer, but for hobby photographers it would be nice to support video too. Fortunately I'm a programmer so I've implemented this feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simple to use, open source digital asset management application. I enjoy being able to set it and forget it OR go into the code and tinker with the logic of the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only bad thing as of right now is that there is not remote image storage support or multi-user support which would make it a perfect platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UX/UI is great. Easy to install, even for unexperienced people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I had Performance problem with large album. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its easy to setup and you can easily make modifications. The code base is not complex and you are only limited by your creativity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There should be lazy loading of pictures. Sometimes the browser freezes when you try to load or upload lots of photos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.