Getting started

Welcome to the Immich documentation! This page will give you a quick introduction to the project and how to start using it.

Introduction

Immich is an open-source, self-hosted software solution for managing photos and videos. The project's primary goal is to make it easier for you to backup, organize, and share your photos and videos.

Prerequisites

Immich is just software and needs a computer to run on, whether that be an old laptop, server, our rented cloud machine. You can learn more about the system requirements on the hardware and software page.

Install Immich

Once Install and upgrade. Docker Compose is the recommended method and is what the rest of the documentation assumes.

If you would rather try Immich before committing to a deployment, Quick start walks through the shortest path to a working instance.

After installing

Next steps covers registering the admin user, setting up backups, and the optional features worth knowing about.