Piwigo
Business Profile
Core Value Proposition
Piwigo provides open source photo management software that helps users manage, organize and share photos and digital media on the web.
Target Customer
Organizations, teams and individuals
Key Differentiator
Open source, extensible via plugins and themes, with strong support for high-volume photo libraries and flexible hosting options (self-hosted or cloud).
Implementation Timeline
Deployment examples mention implementations in around 3 months (e.g., Wessex Water case mentioned in testimonials)
Pain Points
- 1Difficulty managing and classifying thousands to hundreds of thousands of photos at scale
- 2Need for secure, role-based access and rights management when sharing assets
- 3Reliance on external file-sharing tools (e.g., Dropbox) and lack of a centralized, collaborative photo CMS
Key Features
- 1Albums hierarchy
- 2Batch management
- 3Permissions control
- 4Themes & plugins
- 5Open source with editable, auditable code; cloud hosting option
Target Customer Industries
Client Results
- 1Scales to manage thousands to hundreds of thousands of photos with access rights by user profile
- 2Reliability claim: no incidents in 6 years (customer testimonial)
- 3Real-time saving and easier access for teams across multiple sites or information centers
- 4Simplified sharing and retrieval without over-reliance on external tools like Dropbox
- 5Better quality control and streamlined collaboration for exhibitions and campaigns
Competitive Advantages
- 1Open source, editable and extensible with plugins/themes
- 2Strong suitability for high-volume photo libraries
- 3Flexible hosting: self-hosted or cloud hosting available
- 4Fine-grained permissions and access control
- 5User-friendly and easy to share collaboratively
Key Benefits
Case Studies & Success Stories
Images du Revest (Non-Profits, France)
Piwigo served as a complete CMS enabling collaborative exhibition work, with fine-tuned rights management and a facility for geolocation, descriptions and comments across multiple sites.
Tourisme Béarn Pays Basque (Tourism & Culture, France)
Piwigo enables access to more than 6,000 photos with user-profile access rights, providing reliable, easy-to-use image management for regional tourism.
Office de Tourisme Bassin d’Arcachon (Tourism & Culture, France)
Used to share and access photos from information centers across the region, avoiding overload of external file-sharing services and benefiting from easy access.
Siblu (Tourism & Culture, France)
All brand graphic elements are accessible for 19 campsites; Piwigo offers easy classification and quick retrieval of photos and videos via tags, albums or comments, saving time.
Wessex Water (Public Sector, United Kingdom)
Testimonial notes a prior quality-control issue resolved by using Piwigo, with deployment taking about 3 months and easy adoption across the organization.
Additional Product Information
Product Description
Open source photo management software to manage, organize and share photos and digital media on the web; designed for organisations, teams and individuals.
Target Market
Organizations, teams and individuals needing scalable photo galleries and asset management, including tourism, culture, information centers, non-profits and photographers.
Unique Value Proposition
Open source, extensible, scalable photo management with robust permissions and flexible hosting options, suitable for collaborative, large-scale photo libraries.
Technical Requirements
Self-hosted or cloud hosting options; real-world use includes NAS (Synology NAS) usage noted by users; open source software
Pricing Model
Free and open source; cloud hosting option available; no specific pricing details provided
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