A travel drive for a couple or a family. Your photos sort themselves into trips and stops on a globe, and everything stays at home, on your own machine.
Free and open source under AGPL-3.0. No account, no cloud.
A silent 50-second tour. Years of trips sit in one messy camera roll; Waysake reads where and when each photo was taken and sorts them into five trips on a globe. Then a page for one trip, the guessing game, and two people watching the same trip together from two screens.
Thousands of photos in one endless scroll. The mountains you hiked sit between a screenshot and a parking ticket, and nobody remembers anymore which summer was Sicily.
Every photo already knows when and where it was taken. Waysake reads that, groups your photos into trips and stops, and puts them back on the map. You only confirm.
Each trip draws its route on a quiet grey globe, stop by stop, in its own colour. The colour comes from the trip’s cover photo, rounded to a palette of ten, like album covers.
Ten colours, each always shown with a name, so two trips never depend on colour alone to tell apart. Pick one by hand whenever you like.
The cover melts into the page. Dates, countries and the road between your stops; the days, photos and kilometres. Below, every stop with its photos and its map.
Open any photo full screen, react to it, write the story of the trip before you forget it, play a slideshow or make a postcard to share.
Where was it? shows a photo from your trips: drop your pin on the map, and the closer you are, the more points. In Investigation mode, one of you suggests a place for a photo that has none, the other confirms: agree within 25 km and the place is saved for good.
Watch together sends the other person an invitation. One leads, the other follows the same photos on their own screen, live, and reactions fly across both.
Try it
The real app, with the five trips of this page and their photos. Open a trip, browse its photos full screen, turn the globe.
Waysake runs on a computer you own. Your photos never leave it, there is no account to create, and this project collects nothing about you.
Immich organizes your photos. Waysake keeps the journey.
Nothing to compile: the image is ready for PC, Mac, Raspberry Pi and NAS.
Docker Desktop on a PC or a Mac, Docker Engine on Linux, a Raspberry Pi or a NAS.
In a terminal, with your own names and a password of your choice:
mkdir waysake && cd waysake
curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mariusfaitducode/waysake/main/docker-compose.yml
WAYSAKE_PROFILES="Alex, Sam" WAYSAKE_PASSWORD="choose a password" docker compose up -dPhotos and the database go to ./atlas-data next to the file, or wherever WAYSAKE_DATA points. Waysake restarts with the machine.
Go to http://localhost:8420, or the machine’s address on your network. For your phones, anywhere and in HTTPS: tailscale serve --bg 8420. To update later: docker compose pull && docker compose up -d.
Not at ease with a terminal? Paste this into Claude Code or any assistant that can run commands on your machine. It explains each step before running it.
Help me install Waysake, a self-hosted travel photo drive, on this computer. Read its README first: https://github.com/Mariusfaitducode/waysake Explain each command in one sentence before you run it, and wait for my OK before installing anything. 1. Check whether Docker is installed and running. If it isn't, tell me how to install it for my system. 2. Ask me for: the names of the people in our household, a household password, and the folder where our photos should live. 3. Create a "waysake" folder, download docker-compose.yml from the repository, and write a .env file with WAYSAKE_PROFILES, WAYSAKE_PASSWORD and WAYSAKE_DATA. 4. Start it with "docker compose up -d", then check that http://localhost:8420/api/health answers. 5. If I want to use it from our phones, help me set up Tailscale and run "tailscale serve --bg 8420". Never expose Waysake directly to the internet. 6. Finish by telling me the address to open and how to update later.
Waysake is developed with Claude Code, Anthropic’s coding assistant, and most commits are co-signed by Claude.
It isn’t code generated and left behind. My partner and I use it for our own trips, and I read and test every change on our own photo library. The server is covered by more than 200 automated tests, and sensitive changes (sign-in, import, files) go through a dedicated security review. Issues and criticism are welcome on GitHub.