Recognize people
Face recognition helps you find pictures of people you know.
Self-hosted. Automatically organized.
Your media.
Your system.
Sorty organizes your photos and videos by your rules, makes them searchable with AI, and runs on your own hardware.
Sorty · Media search
Search in everyday language“Photos with a dog”
Your own storageBrowser & appWindows · Linux · Raspberry Pi
Features
Less sorting.
More finding.
From memory card to shared album. Sorty takes care of recurring tasks in your media archive.
Describe what you’re looking for.
Find photos and videos by name, tag, person or what’s in the image. Semantic search uses local media features. Connect an AI service such as Ollama to search in everyday language.
Keep your archive organized your way.
Set sources, output folders and rules for each workspace. Sorty can file media by event, capture date and recognized people.
See what’s running.
Track jobs in the browser. Multiple ExecutionEngines can share a queue. A journal records progress so the engine can pick up work after an interruption.
See your collection at a glance.
Switch between gallery, list, timeline and map. Open originals, play videos or download selected files as a ZIP.
Choose your storage
Use local drives, NAS, SMB, WebDAV and supported cloud storage.
Share selected events
Share events with a link and manage access to each workspace.
Who it’s for
An archive that grows with you.
Family archives
Find holiday photos, birthdays and everyday moments years later.
Photographers & studios
Keep imports consistent and find photos quickly by content or project.
Home servers & teams
Use shared storage and manage libraries in separate workspaces.
Hardware
Sorty Media Store.
Five recommended builds for your media server. Choose based on the size of your archive and the AI model you want to run locally.
Sorty Media Store
Base
A simple startFor private archives and automated sorting on the CPU.
- CPU
- 4 cores
- RAM
- 16 GB
- Graphics
- CPU
- Data SSD
- 2 TB
No local AI server
Sorty Media Store
Home
Built for homeFor family archives with self-hosted AI search.
- CPU
- 8 cores
- RAM
- 32 GB
- Graphics
- 16 GB VRAM
- Data SSD
- 4 TB
Mistral Small 3.2 · 24B
Sorty Media Store
Comfort
Extra headroomFor large collections and a wider choice of models.
- CPU
- 12–16 cores
- RAM
- 64 GB
- Graphics
- 24 GB VRAM
- Data SSD
- 4 TB · RAID 1
Mistral Small 3.2 or Gemma 3
Sorty Media Store
Professional
For studios and teamsFor extensive archives and more demanding vision models.
- CPU
- 16 cores
- RAM
- 64–128 GB
- Graphics
- 32–48 GB VRAM
- Data SSD
- 8 TB · RAID 1
Qwen3-VL · 30B or 32B
Sorty Media Store
Ultra
A full workstationFor very large archives and running the largest models locally.
- CPU
- 24–32 cores
- RAM
- 256 GB ECC
- Graphics
- 2 × 96 GB VRAM
- Data SSD
- 16 TB · RAID 10
Qwen3-VL · 235B
These configurations follow the Sorty hardware guide. Allow additional storage for backups.
Downloads
Get started on your computer.
The standalone setup installs the web server, ExecutionEngine and MySQL. Use the individual packages to install the components separately.
64 Bit · Windows 10/11
Windows
x64 · Debian or Ubuntu
Linux
ARM64 · Raspberry Pi 5
Raspberry Pi
SHA-256 checksums ↓The installers download the required runtimes and models during setup.
Contact
What would you like to do with Sorty?
Ask about the right Media Store, help with setup or ways to work together.
SortyOfficial on GitHub