PaperPix

Built by working press photographers

Vault holds your archive.
Dispatch gets it to the desks.

PaperPix is two tools for photographers who file for a living: a free catalogue for every picture you've ever shot, and a sender that captions your pictures and delivers them to news desks by email or FTP.

Start sending free Get Vault — free forever

PaperPix Vault · Free

Your archive, on your own disks

Catalogue your whole archive with full-text search, IPTC and EXIF metadata, and a GPS map. Your photos stay on storage you own — no account, no cloud, no storage limits.

Install Vault →

PaperPix Dispatch

From camera to picture desk

Upload from the browser or straight from the camera over FTP, caption the set once, and send it to your desks by email or FTP — or let auto-send rules do it the moment files land.

See plans →
01IngestDrag in a folder or FTP from the touchline. Sets build themselves as files arrive.
02CaptionCaption templates and IPTC fields, applied across the whole set in one go.
03SendOne click to every desk on your list, with tracked download links.

Pricing.

Free tools for photographers. Pay only when you need the sender's serious muscle.

Free forever

PaperPix Vault

Free

Self-hosted on your Mac or your webhost. No account, no cloud.

  • Photo catalogue with sets + galleries
  • Public showcase site (10+ themes)
  • Full-text search, IPTC, EXIF, GPS map
  • Client share links + favourites
  • Drone/camera FTP ingest
  • Unlimited storage (your disk)
Install for free →

Free

Free

Get started with the sender at no cost.

  • Max file size 20 MB
  • Storage 100 MB
  • Sets 2
  • Files / set Unlimited
  • Destinations 3
Sign up to start
Most popular

Freelancer

£8.99/mo

Everything you need to send from anywhere.

  • Max file size 200 MB
  • Storage 350 MB
  • Sets Unlimited
  • Files / set Unlimited
  • Destinations Unlimited
Sign up to start
Coming soon

Team

In dev

Shared destinations, multi-user, admin controls.

  • Multiple users per account
  • Shared destinations & lists
  • Per-user auto-send rules
  • Team-wide credit billing
  • Admin controls
Available later this year

Install the PaperPix Vault

Free, self-hosted. One line on a Mac, one browser wizard on a webhost. ~5 minutes.

Mac (Apple Silicon)

Open Terminal (Applications → Utilities → Terminal), paste, hit Return.

curl -fsSL https://paperpix.io/dam/install-mac.sh | bash
  1. DO NOT add sudo — it'll ask for your password when it needs to
  2. Takes ~5 minutes on a fresh Mac
  3. Opens http://localhost:8080 with your login
  4. Drop photos into ~/Pictures/PaperPixSync — auto-imports

Uninstall: curl -fsSL https://paperpix.io/dam/uninstall-mac.sh | bash

Webhost (Plesk / cPanel / any Apache)

Download this file, FTP into your public web dir, browse to it.

https://paperpix.io/dam/install.php.txt
  1. Save the file, rename to install.php
  2. FTP it to your httpdocs/ (or public_html/)
  3. Browse to https://yoursite.com/install.php
  4. 5-step wizard: env check → DB → admin → install → done

Needs: PHP 8.4+, MySQL, ~200 MB free disk. Cron line printed at the end.

What you get

Everything a working photographer needs, in the free tier.

Ingest anywhereDrag folders, drone/camera FTP, or scan-folder auto-import.
Sets + GalleriesRaw shoots (Sets) → curated collections (Galleries).
IPTC + EXIF + GPSMetadata on ingest, photos plotted on a map.
Full-text searchAcross filename, caption, IPTC fields.
Client sharesPassword-optional links + optional ZIP download.
Public showcase10+ themes for your public site on your domain.
360° viewerPannellum built-in — drop panoramas anywhere.
Send bridgeOne-click "Send to PaperPix" from any set.

Questions?

Anything not clear? Email support@paperpix.io — Terry replies personally.