Foldergram

Hey Faziers 👋 I built Foldergram for myself as I organize photos in local folders, but wanted a nicer way to browse them. Foldergram scans a local gallery folder and turns each folder into a profile-style page, with a fast Instagram-inspired feed, thumbnails, previews, and reels with PWA support. It is a self-hosted, local-first, and intentionally simple open-source project. I’d love feedback from photographers, homelab folks, designers, and anyone with a giant folder full of images and videos they keep meaning to make easier to browse.

It looks good. And someone need it.

cool idea , but useful ?

Love the idea of browsing local folders like a proper feed without uploading anything. Perfect for people with years of photos sitting in folders doing nothing. Does it work with network drives too?

Foldergram solves a real pain point for creators and photographers who manage large local media libraries. The ability to instantly transform existing folders into a polished gallery without cloud sync or complex setup is incredibly valuable. The offline-friendly experience and clean presentation make it stand out from many traditional photo management tools.

This scratches a real itch. I have years of photos sitting in dated folders on a NAS that I never look at, because browsing them is basically a file manager. The homelab and NAS angle is the one I would put front and center, since that crowd is the most likely to self-host, and someone already asked about network drives in the comments. The fact that originals stay untouched and nothing gets uploaded is the trust unlock for that group. One small thing: a quick note on how it handles a folder with tens of thousands of images, indexing time and memory use, would reassure the people with the biggest libraries, who are exactly the ones you want. Open-sourcing it was the right call too.