Supporter Edition Overview

The Lychee Supporter Edition (SE) includes all features of the Free Edition, plus exclusive additions as a thank-you for supporting the development of Lychee. A second tier, Pro, adds the Webshop and a few presentation options on top of SE.

How to Get the Supporter Edition

Support Lychee via GitHub Sponsors.
Retrieve your personal license key from keygen.lycheeorg.dev
In Lychee, open the Left menu → About Lychee dialog → enter your license key

Without a key, the SE and Pro settings are not listed in the settings page and any attempt to change them is rejected. Features that are additionally checked at runtime - album slugs, ZIP extraction on upload, the Best Pictures smart albums, and others - stop applying too, so a lapsed licence degrades the gallery back toward Free Edition behaviour rather than breaking it.

Exclusive Features

Feature	Description
Statistics	Storage and growth statistics, plus view/download/share metrics and a live activity feed
User Groups	Share albums with a whole set of users at once, with delegated group administration
Watermarking	Stamp a custom watermark on generated variants, with full control over anchor, scale, and opacity
Secure Image Links	Encrypt the storage path embedded in image URLs so they cannot be guessed or enumerated
NSFW Classification	Automatically detect explicit content and act on it according to the uploader’s trust level
White Label	Remove all Lychee branding from the interface
Webshop	Sell your photos with integrated payment support (Pro tier)

SE and Pro are about the licence you hold. They are a separate axis from the v8 tag used elsewhere in this documentation, which marks behaviour that only exists in the upcoming v8 interface: a v8 feature is not necessarily an SE one, and vice versa.

Beyond those dedicated pages, the licence also unlocks a long list of smaller options spread across the settings:

Timeline - explicit grouping granularity, per album and globally, the date formats used in the group headers, and the vertical timeline rule. See Timeline.
Flow - the inclusion strategy and nearly every card customization. See Flow.
Ratings - public ratings, the display mode in the photo and album views, and the Best Pictures / My Best Pictures smart albums. See Smart Albums.
Renaming rules - rewrite file and title names on import or upload, optionally enforced for everyone.
Uploads - extract uploaded ZIP archives and import their contents, and set a default per-user storage quota.
Privacy - hide EXIF data or file names from everyone, and disable individual download variants.
Gallery - show tags on photo thumbnails, control the number of albums per row on mobile, and let visitors keep a personal favourites list.
Contact form - a built-in contact form, with a security question and a custom consent checkbox.
Performance - colour extraction for the color: search modifier, and a configurable TTL on the response cache. The cache itself is free, but its whole settings group only appears when ENABLE_CACHING=true is set in the .env file.

Pro tier

Pro includes everything in SE and adds:

The complete Webshop: purchasable albums and photos, basket, checkout, payment gateways, and order management.
Enhanced album display: header size, landing-title mode, and the star-visibility option for photos.
In-place editing of the album header: its focus point, the title colour, and where the title sits on the banner.
Full customization of the contact form’s wording, consent text, and privacy URL.

Licensing

The Supporter Edition uses the same MIT license as the Free Edition. Lychee remains fully open source - the SE code is available on GitHub.

The one exception is the optional NSFW classification microservice, which is AGPL-3.0 because of the model it depends on. It is a standalone service; the Lychee application itself stays MIT.

Managing Your Subscription

You can manage your GitHub Sponsors subscription directly on GitHub.

Lost Your License Key?

Retrieve a new key at keygen.lycheeorg.dev.