--- title: Piwigo Reviews meta_title: 'Piwigo Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 12 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Piwigo works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.1 review_count: 12 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-09-28' parent_category: name: Content Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/content-management --- # Piwigo Reviews **Vendor:** Piwigo **Category:** [Web Content Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/web-content-management) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About Piwigo Piwigo is open source photo gallery software for the web. ## Piwigo Reviews ### 1. Piwigo - The best content developing tool for web **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prasoon S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Piwigo?** In this there are a lot of plugins and connectors available for quick and easy editing and managing of templates and content. The best of features are creating albums for your images and upload them album wise, and viewers or users can also view the whole album. The content or template design created for publishing or advertising on web page, can easily be shared on any platform or portal, or with any person. There are security features also available in this, by which you can set restriction who can view your images or who cannot. With this your content would be safe and protected every time. The software's best feature is that it makes the work of image editing centralized and accessed from anywhere so it becomes easy for users to select the design and publish on pages. The auto scheduling feature is there in this for auto posting of ads. **What do you dislike about Piwigo?** The steps and process for integrating with multiple applications or software that are not secured makes the performance or processing of Piwigo slightly slow and laggy. The developers should also need to increase the capacity of uploading or saving images on this portal. **What problems is Piwigo solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are a variety of filter options available on this for enhancing the quality of our image and keeping our campaigning channels always engaged and busy with the auto scheduling of content. The sharing of image and content with our team members also became easy for us now. ### 2. Provide Image Library To manage and Share The Photos on web **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishal S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** This review contains authentic analysis and has been reviewed by our team **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Piwigo?** It provides the feature to make the album and sub-album to upload the photos. It provides a customization theme and also provides an access control feature to restrict any person to view photos. It provides sharing feature. It provides other plugin-like slideshow presentations. **What do you dislike about Piwigo?** Nothing to dislike about it and its features. **What problems is Piwigo solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to manage all the photos and the large collection of photos of customers in an organized way with tagging and naming album features. It provides the sharing and collaboration feature to share the photos with others and also helps me to restrict any photo through its access control feature. ### 3. Mindblowing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vineet D. | Business Intelligence associates, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Piwigo?** Everything about this software is just awesome. One of the best photo management software. It's got all the features and functions. There are a lot of new and effective features I have found on it. **What do you dislike about Piwigo?** There is nothing I can complain or dislike about this software, it's one of the best software for photos. It never gets stuck and provides a lot of space for photos for the web. **What problems is Piwigo solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helping me a lot to keep my pictures saved in one place. It's easily customizable. It's a web-based system which is also free and notable as a system with a lot of interesting features. ### 4. Host your photos to the cloud with Piwigo **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanskriti G. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Piwigo?** Piwigo is free and easy to use. You can host your photos in the cloud and have a backup for your photo albums, can view and edit images with filters and so on. You can view your photo gallery at any time, you can also share the images with your friends and family. Piwigo is good for cloud backup. **What do you dislike about Piwigo?** Piwigo takes time while integrating with third party app, and also auto sync features can be overwhelming and need to set it up to manual each time to ensure proper backup. **Recommendations to others considering Piwigo:** If you are thinking to host your photos in the cloud, Piwigo might be the right option. It is easy to setup the server and host the photos. Once setup it can be accessed at anytime you need. **What problems is Piwigo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Piwigo as a cloud backup and often use it to share the images with my friends. ### 5. Need more development. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harsh J. | Business Development Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Piwigo?** There are not so many pros of this app 1. Users can upload pics very easily and quickly. 2. The users have the features to create their own server for uploading the pics 3. It has lot more good filter options. 4. Very simple and growing app. 5. The app features are so basic that anyone can use it very easily. **What do you dislike about Piwigo?** There are more cons than the pros. 1. Its trial version is for 14 days after which users need to purchase. 2. Users can only upload 100 pics, not more than that, and this information is not given anywhere. 3. The back end of the software is not effective; sometimes the app crashes and takes a while to get online. 4. Lack of some basic features. 5. The app is still in its basic form, sort of old-fashioned and primitive. 6. The app cannot auto-sync or upload, and sometimes its sync goes down. **Recommendations to others considering Piwigo:** People can use this app for some good filters and a good way to keep all the photos safe. One should give a try to this app so that they can experience and get to know its features on their own. **What problems is Piwigo solving and how is that benefiting you?** The app is not so useful, but yes, it helps in solving some problems like its various filter options are very good for clicking good photos, and its privacy security is very secure. The app is very easy to use and has simple features that don't confuse any users. ### 6. Not sure this is safe **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander C. | Editor In Chief, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Piwigo?** free, easy to install, unlimited, i control my photos **What do you dislike about Piwigo?** last time i installed it, it filled my server with malware, not sure I trust open source security **What problems is Piwigo solving and how is that benefiting you?** just an extra back up ### 7. A Multi Featured Gallery Software For Your Web **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajkishore M. | Founder & CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Piwigo?** This is very easy to use. Best part is it is completely free to use. You can install this plugin and get benefited with its features in your web. You can store your captured images, business images & individual images securely. If your camera has date facility and GPS facility then this software will classify the images according to date and location. You can search images by day to day and through location also. It also creates groups by sizes through which you can find required images according to size. It has also an Android app for its user. **What do you dislike about Piwigo?** Sometimes integration with other software is complicated and takes some knowledge. **Recommendations to others considering Piwigo:** This is absolutely free so you can use this software for your gallery requirements for your web. For more spaces you can also go for paid subscriptions. **What problems is Piwigo solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used this plugin to solve our gallery issues for our website. It helped us to store our business images, group images securely. For clients, it helped us to share images and we can choose who can access the images, which makes them secure. ### 8. Customizable **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2021 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about Piwigo?** It is free, unlike Flickr and it supports video **What do you dislike about Piwigo?** I found it a little confusing to download **What problems is Piwigo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can share my photos as an individual and in my organization ### 9. Piwigo; time-saver when it comes to host photos **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prashant P. | Quality Assurance Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Piwigo?** First of all, Piwigo is free. Uploading photos to the server with Piwigo is rather easy and can be done with a click. In the dashboard, you can see a bunch of lists such as Photos, Albums, Users, Plugins, and other required tools. In the 'Photos' tab, you can simply upload a photo, rate and put tags, and so on. On the 'Albums' tab, you can customize photos as per your requirement. Also, with the plugin features, you have the freedom to manage and rearrange the photos using the pre-defined plugins, which makes the work efficient, and processing the image takes lesser time. **What do you dislike about Piwigo?** Talking about the downside, Piwigo is less secure, its integration with other third-party applications is causing a major problem, and this might be the reason I don't find it secure as compared to other cloud storage platforms. On the other hand, the installation of Piwigo seems a little tough, as users had to deal with the database configuration which includes every detail of Host, User, Database name, Database tables prefix, and relatively the admin configuration. So users might be confused while setting up the Piwigo for the first time. **What problems is Piwigo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Piwigo is simple and easy to use, with no hassles. The global mode feature in Piwigo is the best thing the software has to offer, with a filter option, I can choose from various options and sort out to the one that I actually need. Searching photos in the batch manager, and defining specific Keywords for your search term, or simply with a tag is a time-saver. You can also search a file, by allocating a specific size or size range. Moreover, if you have any problems while working with the Piwigo, you may go through the help section and start taking a tour! ### 10. Managed your photo collection **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Natasha M. | Helping people , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Piwigo?** It is a photo software for the web, built an active community of users and developers. Freely available extensive make piwigo easily customizable. **What do you dislike about Piwigo?** Photos are easier to upload, themes are easier to install, administrators is easier to read if you hate dark backgrounds, administrators menu was reorganized. **What problems is Piwigo solving and how is that benefiting you?** I’m trying to track and maximize conversions. Piwigo provides detailed information on individual users, which Google only allows in aggregate. This allows much more accurate generation of narratives to describe the desire of users on the site. ### 11. Review for Pivigo **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Animation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Piwigo?** It's a photo gallery software, it has free extensions that helps u customise easily. It is a open source. **What do you dislike about Piwigo?** Not anything that I disliked. Once you get familiar with it, it's all u need. **What problems is Piwigo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating and collecting similar photos at a place to create animation. ### 12. Great way to host your own images **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Piwigo?** I like that I can host my images on my own server. **What do you dislike about Piwigo?** It isn't able to multi process when creating thumbnails. It takes forever to create them and was not able to create all of them from the root. **What problems is Piwigo solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just hosting lots of images. ## Piwigo Discussions - [What is Piwigo used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-piwigo-used-for) - [View Piwigo pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/piwigo/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-10-01+06%3A34%3A38+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=3251e607-b1f3-43b4-9227-6949d60df544&secure%5Btoken%5D=74dd8460e01af13f22f3c406fc364266e634950b86719eeba8ab30c17bb34e26&format=llm_user) ## Piwigo Features **Content** - Content Authoring - Rich Text Editor - Versioning - Plug-ins/Widgets/Apps - Approval Process - Content Scheduling - Asset Management - Internal Search - Content Repository - SEO Management - eCommerce Management - Forms Management - Campaign Management - Media Management - Drag & Drop Editor - Audio Editor **Design** - Breadth of Pre-Built Templates - Mobile - Branding/Themes - Customization **Platform** - User Community - SEO - Flexible Navigation Structures - User, Role, and Access Management - Enterprise Scalability - Internationalization - Dashboards and Reports - API **Agentic AI - Web Content Management** - Cross-system Integration - Natural Language Interaction - Social Media Integration **Additional Functionality** - AI/Machine Learning - Reporting/Analytics - Collaboration Tools - Image Editing - Website Publishing Options - Chatbot - Content Publishing Options - Text Editing - Access Control - Website Accessibility Tools - Content Delivery - Content Personalization - Configurable Workflow - Generative AI - Alerts/Notifications - Video Editing - AI Copilot - Performance Testing - Activity Monitoring - Multi-Channel Distribution ## Top Piwigo Alternatives - [WordPress.org](https://www.g2.com/products/wordpress-org/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (9,392 reviews) - [Joomla](https://www.g2.com/products/joomla/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (376 reviews) - [Drupal](https://www.g2.com/products/drupal/reviews) - 3.9/5.0 (405 reviews)