Every photograph you own, in one place.

Lumina is a private photo library. It brings pictures together from the places they already live — your computer, Google Drive, Google Photos, OneDrive — and makes them searchable by the people, places and text inside them.

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What Lumina does

One library that reads every place your photographs already live.

Photographs accumulate in a dozen places at once — a phone backup, a Drive folder, an old hard disk — and become impossible to search across. You point Lumina at the folders and accounts you already have; it imports the pictures you choose into storage you control, then reads each one to work out when and where it was taken, who appears in it, and what any text in the frame says. After that you can ask for “Anjali at the beach in 2019” and get it.

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ImportFrom a local folder, Google Drive, Google Photos or OneDrive. Originals stay exactly where they are.
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OrganiseAutomatically by date, place, camera and person — no albums to maintain by hand.
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SearchAcross every source at once, including words that appear inside the pictures themselves.
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ShareA chosen folder as a PIN-protected page, when you want to and not before.

Who this is for

Self-hosted, single-owner, and nobody else's business.

Runs on your server

Your own machine and your own storage. No advertising, no profiling, nothing sold.

Private by default

Only the owner can sign in, and the library behind that sign-in is not public.

Open pages stay open

This page, the privacy policy and the terms need no account at all.

Analysis stays local

Faces, places and text are all worked out on your own server, never sent onward.

Why Lumina asks for access to your accounts

Read access, to the folders you pick, and nothing more.

Connecting a cloud account is optional. Lumina only ever asks for read access, and only so it can copy the pictures you choose into your own library. It never writes to, changes or deletes anything in a connected account.

Google Drivedrive.readonly
To list the folder you point Lumina at and read the image files inside it, so they can be imported.
Google Photosphotospicker.mediaitems.readonly
To read only the photographs you personally select in Google's own picker.
OneDriveFiles.Read.All
The same, for files stored in Microsoft OneDrive.

Nothing read from a connected account is sold, shared, used for advertising, or used to train machine-learning models. All analysis runs on this server. Lumina's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. You can disconnect a source at any time, which deletes its stored authorization. The full privacy policy sets this out in detail.

Questions? Write to csa_rv@outlook.com.