PersonalFans

Private · patron-only

Your photo and video folders, presented like a creator feed.

PersonalFans turns the folders on your PC or network share into subscriptions you scroll: feeds, albums, stories, collections and a fast lightbox. Nothing is uploaded. The whole app runs in your browser.

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Best in Chrome or Edge 122 or newer, which remember your folders between visits. Firefox and Safari work in session-only mode.

Benefit

  • Every folder becomes a creator profile with a feed, a media grid and stories.
  • Combine several albums into one subscription and hide the shots you don't want in it.
  • Thumbnails are built locally, the lightbox is keyboard-driven, likes and bookmarks live in Collections.
  • Works with local folders and network (SMB) shares alike.

Privacy

  • Files are read straight from your disk or share. Nothing is uploaded, ever.
  • Thumbnails, subscriptions and likes are stored in your browser, never on a server.
  • No analytics, no tracking, no third-party scripts. The page is not even allowed to make network requests.
  • One click in Settings forgets everything the app kept.

Security

  • Patron-only sign-in. Sessions are signed, HttpOnly cookies and the server keeps no records.
  • Folder access goes through your browser's own permission prompt, read-only, revocable any time.
  • Served over HTTPS with strict security headers: a locked-down Content Security Policy, no referrers, no framing.
  • Small and readable: the code is on GitHub.

How to get access

  1. Become a patron. Support the project on Patreon.
  2. Grab the password. The current one is pinned in the patrons-only post. It changes from time to time, and the newest one is always there.
  3. Sign in and add a folder. Use Sign in, enter the password, then pick your first folder. Where a Patreon button is offered, your Patreon account works too.
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Updated all week

New features and fixes ship several times a week. There is nothing to install or update: reload the page and you have the latest version. Your folders, subscriptions and settings stay exactly where they are.

Requests and bugs

Want a feature, or found something broken? Open an issue on GitHub and say what you expected and what happened. Screenshots of the demo library help; never attach your own photos.

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