Piwigo vs PeerTube
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piwigo
Manage your cloud-based photo gallery from your mobile device. Organize albums, edit photos and videos, upload new media with detailed metadata, and share your creations. This app complements the web-based Piwigo software for a seamless photo management experience.
- Browse and manage albums
- Edit, download, and delete photos/videos
- Upload media with metadata
- Organize photos into albums
- Share photos and videos
- Set album cover images
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Piwigo for iPhone/iPad/iPod supplements the photo gallery software in the cloud Piwigo (v12.0 or higher): • Browse your albums, • Create, delete, move and rename albums, • Search, edit, download and delete photos and videos, • Copy and move photos and videos between albums, • Add and remove photos and videos from your favorites, • Set a photo as album image, • Upload photos and videos: - of modifiable size and quality, - with description, author, tags, EXIF metadata, - with or without GPS metadata. • Share albums, photos and videos. Piwigo empowers you to create your own photo gallery on the web. It includes many powerful features such as albums, tags, geolocation, many levels of customization, upload by visitors, privacy, calendar or statistics. Piwigo is free and opensource. Piwigo is also compatible with the following extensions: - Community: allows users to create albums and add photos - rotateImage: enables you to rotate images - Share Album: allows to share private albums with people who do not have an account - piwigo-two_factor: adds two-factor authentication (2FA) - piwigo-videojs: adds video support Feedback or questions ? Piwigo offers free support at https://piwigo.org/forum and we'd love to hear from you.
PeerTube
Watch, share, and publish videos on a decentralized network. This app offers a free, privacy-respecting alternative to mainstream video platforms, allowing you to explore content across thousands of independent servers without an account.
- Watch and subscribe to channels
- Explore decentralized federation
- Search and discover videos
- Offline video downloads (future)
- Upload videos from mobile (future)
- Comment and interact with community (future)
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Discover the PeerTube mobile application, a free alternative to video streaming giants like YouTube. Thanks to its decentralised network, PeerTube lets you watch, share and publish videos in complete freedom, while remaining in control of your data. The official PeerTube application is your gateway to hundreds of thousands of videos, available across more than a thousand different platforms, and now viewable on your mobile device wherever you are. Main features of the application Watch videos and subscribe to your favourite channels: Follow your favourite creators, no matter which instance they're hosted on, and find out what's new on the home screen. Find videos you've watched and saved for later in ‘Library’. Explore the PeerTube federation: easily browse videos and creators on different PeerTube instances hosted around the world. Discover diverse content from a multitude of interconnected servers. No account required! Search and discover videos: Use our search engine to find specific videos, channels or themes across the entire PeerTube network. Choose themes that interest you to find the content that's right for you. Offline download: Download videos directly to your device and watch them without an internet connection, wherever and whenever you want. Upload videos from your mobile device: Easily import your own videos from your device, and contribute to PeerTube's decentralised ecosystem. Comment and interact: Comment, discuss and exchange around videos with the PeerTube community. Why choose PeerTube? PeerTube is more than just a video platform. It's a decentralised network that respects your privacy and offers you an ethical alternative to the platforms of surveillance capitalism. Unlike centralised services, PeerTube does not collect your personal data or track you for advertising purposes. With PeerTube, you have complete control over your video experience. Download the PeerTube application now and join a community that supports a free, decentralised Internet that respects its users. Who is behind PeerTube? PeerTube is a project developed by Framasoft, a French non-profit organisation committed to popular education about the digital commons. Framasoft is known for its many initiatives aimed at raising public awareness of alternatives to large centralised platforms and encouraging digital practices that are more respectful of privacy and individual freedoms. This is done in particular through the De-google-ify Internet campaign, which proposes some fifteen services as alternatives to those of the net giants.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Piwigo at 4.6 against PeerTube's 3.9. Piwigo also leads on review sentiment (69% vs 47%) and ratings volume (182 vs 34). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Piwigo holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piwigo has 182 ratings behind it against 34, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Piwigo's written reviews are positive against 47% of PeerTube's.
Piwigo ships an update every 3 weeks, PeerTube every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piwigo | PeerTube |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (182 ratings) — better | 3.9 (34 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 69.3% of reviews — better | 47.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 182 — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Pigolabs | Framasoft |
Customer experience
Piwigo
PeerTube
User reviews
Piwigo
From 182 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for photo sharing control
- 👍 Free and awesome
- 👍 Best for self-hosted pictures
- 👍 Sync feature is great
- 👍 Flexible photo organization
Room to improve
- 🐛 iPad app connection issues
- 🐛 Uploaded photos not showing
- 🐛 B&W images render blurry on iPad/iPhone
- 🐛 Pictures only display momentarily
- 🐛 Uploads have stopped
PeerTube
From 34 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great alternative to YouTube
- 🚀 Good performance on iPad
- 💡 Supports many PeerTube instances
- ✨ Open source and private
- 🌟 Promising future potential
Room to improve
- 🐛 App freezes on startup
- 🐛 Cannot scroll on landing page
- 🐛 Unusable on small screens
- 🐛 Inaccessible to blind users
- 🐛 Limited content availability
Bugs and requests
Piwigo
Reported bugs
35 issues- iPad app connection issues
- Uploaded photos not showing
- B&W images render blurry on iPad/iPhone
- Pictures only display momentarily
- Uploads have stopped
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- Severe bug: deleted photo reappears
- Live Photos not uploaded with 'live' portion
- .MOV files fail to upload
- Images stuck uploading for hours
- Auto-download toggle deactivates
- Crashes constantly on iPad
- Permission errors on iPad
- App needs auto upload camera roll
- Users cannot delete their photos
- Images no longer load
- Cannot download original size photo via iOS app
- Uploads hanging after update
- Doesn't connect to custom domains
- Crashing since last update
- Album images layout issues
- Thumbnail size adjustment ineffective
- Uploading from cloud photos problematic
- Uploads fail or resize to tiny images
- Interface bugs, selection issues
- Not compatible with iOS 8
- Freezes on password entry
- Cannot see existing albums
- Album creation silently fails
- Cannot upload photos
- App not updated, upload issues
- Stopped allowing photo uploads
- Cannot select multiple pics at once
- Freezes during upload
- Uploads freeze after first photo
- Doesn't upload geo info from exif
Requested features
13 requests- Ability to browse in Photos and open in Piwigo to upload
- Double tap to zoom
- Auto upload camera roll
- Search capability
- Support for multiple accounts
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- Better album image layout
- Ability to see and add comments
- Video support
- Nextcloud integration
- Download original size photo via iOS app
- Support tag editing on upload
- Cache photo galleries for offline viewing
- Upload geo info from exif data
PeerTube
Reported bugs
17 issues- App freezes on opening
- Cannot scroll on landing page
- App does not orient correctly
- App gets stuck upside down
- Video player has delay
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- Accidental touch controls for brightness/volume
- Cannot find own videos
- App logs out users
- Not accessible with screen magnification
- Video loading issues
- Screen remains frozen on homepage
- App freezes on splash screen
- Cannot log into account
- Cannot search other instances properly
- Instance addresses not saved
- Cannot add custom instances
- App is unusable
Requested features
14 requests- Background playback
- Picture-in-picture mode
- Widget with video previews
- Ability to add custom instances
- Support for more PeerTube instances
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- User accounts
- Ability to upload videos
- Creator section
- Move creator work from YouTube
- Incentives for followers
- Import videos
- Create an account
- Airplay support
- Set default instance
In-app purchases
Piwigo
No in-app purchases
PeerTube
No in-app purchases









