Beluga — every photo you have ever taken, finally findable

Beluga — every photo you have ever taken, finally findable Beluga is an open-source, self-hosted photo and file library. Its search understands the contents of an image, so describing a picture in plain words is enough to find it — no tags, no folders, no filenames to remember. What it does

Natural-language and conversational search over your own photos, powered by on-device CLIP embeddings.

Resumable chunked uploads that survive a refresh, built for multi-gigabyte video.

Passwordless magic-link sign-in with revocable sessions.

Storage you choose: local disk, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, MinIO, Backblaze B2 or Wasabi.

A templated theme system — one token file changes the entire interface.

Nothing leaves your server. There is no API key to buy and no model provider in the loop.