# Noodle Gallery 5 Hacker News commenters recommended Noodle Gallery and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Free self-hosted photo and video manager forked from Immich, valued for its features and S3 storage support. Critics say it looks AI-written and has few contributors. ## Why people recommend it - Useful features such as S3 storage (2 comments): "S3 storage is the killer addition here for me." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796903)) "The features appear genuinely valuable." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49795911)) - Personal project built for own setup (2 comments): "I really enjoy working on this project and have been building everything that I felt missing in my setup." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790344)) "Check out what I'm able to achieve on my passion project in my free time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47915194)) ## What people warn about - Suspected AI-written code and landing page (2 comments): "it's very obviously AI-written, which causes me to distrust it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790074)) "The entire landing page screams AI generated" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49794646)) - Few contributors despite many commits (1 comments): "I see no contributors and hundreds of commits in a very short amount of time." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49788969)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Immich](https://hackerapproved.com/p/immich.md): 296 recommend - [Google Photos](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-photos.md): 73 recommend - [Apple Photos](https://hackerapproved.com/p/apple-photos.md): 66 recommend - [PhotoPrism](https://hackerapproved.com/p/photoprism.md): 10 recommend - [digiKam](https://hackerapproved.com/p/digikam.md): 8 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Noodle Gallery", https://hackerapproved.com/p/noodle-gallery/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).