Photo blog software
The photo blog,
reimagined. Not reheated.
Retro Photo Blogging. No Algorithm.
What’s new is old again. Nothing here is an invention: the single-photo blog, long-form posting, classic Insta, Picasa-style albums — all of it used to belong to photographers. We’re giving it back, on hardware you control, where nobody can take it again.
Your photos. Your voice. Your style. Your dignity.
Pixelpost is gone. Greymatter is a memory. WordPress is a hotel lobby with a photo plugin. The photoblog — one photograph, one post, a real archive behind it — deserved better than being a theme somebody stopped updating in 2014.
SnapSmack is four photoblogs in one engine: the single-image classic, the three-across grid, long-form writing with photographs woven through it, and Picasa-style albums for friends and family. Skins that don’t look like templates. No plugin pile. And it knows who taught it the good bits — the people who built the originals get thanked by name.
Highlights
- YoursYou host it. You own the art. No company, no tiers, no upsell, no “we’ve updated our terms.”
- Four ways to scoreOne photo at a time, the classic grid, writing with photographs in it, or SMACKTHEMUP: simplified, self-hosted public photo sharing for friends and family. Pick the way you always shared.
- Get in, get outImport Instagram, Flickr and Blogger with dates and captions intact. Leave any time with everything, in a form other software reads.
- SkinsReal sites, real archives, and nothing that looks like a template.
- Not aloneYour site is on the fediverse. People on Mastodon, Pixelfed and the rest can follow, like, boost, and reply to your work while it stays on your server. Plus a directory of photoblogs worth browsing and a weekly challenge.
- Desktop suiteA free non-destructive photo editor, batch publishing, backup, import and export tools. Windows and Linux.
- Locked downReal security, publicly audited. If something goes wrong you hear it from us the day we know — not two weeks later.
- AI insideCaptions, alt text, looks, a skin designer. Five providers, your own key, your call. It’s the intern, not the boss.
- Cheap to runShared hosting, small footprint, upload and go. Run several sites from one desk.
- Not a companyBuilt by a working photographer who uses it every day, under a licence that stops anyone fencing it off.
One photograph.One post.Yours.
Pick your way to play on THE GOODS, then pick a look on GLAD RAGS. The family tree is on HOW’S YER FATHER, if you want to know where it came from.
Built by a photographer, not a company. Ask him anything — he’s rude but he answers.