Idk for photos in particular I don’t experience many drawbacks from just using two separate physical external hard drives (every photo is backed up to both).
FYI: You can also self host ente: https://help.ente.io/self-hosting/
Immich user. I do miss the memories thing from Google photos but I expect it’s coming eventually. All the data is there at the foundational level.
My only real immich complaints are
A. The android app gets chonky slow when you have a huge library.
B. S3-like storage isn’t a supported config, meaning you have to manage your storage size somehow. I want to point immich at a Hetzner object storage bucket, arrange mirroring that to another s3 like cloud service, and then forgetting about storage forever.
I believe crypt.ee isn’t self-hostable, I haven’t found self-hosted options on their site and there is only “web-client” repo in their github (https://github.com/cryptee)
Edit: fixed typo
Is this an ad for Ente? #digikam
Immich has memories
I would love to be wrong on this, as I think even without this feature, Immich is one of the best options available.
That said, I am referring to this feature: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/2836
If it has something similar, then I’ll happily consider it. To me, this is one of the more advanced (and well-liked) features of a photo app, which is why I have it there to help differentiate.
My Immich app/webui does have memories where it groups some photos by time, such as “2 years ago” at the top of the app, but I don’t believe it does anything with memories for people or locations.
There’s also no fee to use it, just a donation.
Immich says it is in very actice development and should not be considered a complete and sole solution
And where is OP getting a “one-time fee” from? Maybe counting a donation request?
I’ve been using google photos for 13 years, haaalp! Is there an app that could drag everything over, possibly? Plus which supports that level of storage, I don’t care if I have to pay. I would rather pay and know I support competitive, but less evil software.
There is also fossify gallery and open camera
This is the first version, so I expect there to be a few mistakes. Please flag and provide feedback if you notice any improvements.
Discovered some fantastic options through this research. Hopefully this guide can help you!
Ente is also self hostable. https://help.ente.io/self-hosting/
pCloud has a 2tb lifetime plan, and supported client side encryption. I recommend waiting for a deal though.
I guess we have different definitions of cross-platform but I think it’s unfair to leave extcloud out of the diagram when it has a memories app as well as one for facial recognition. it meets all criteria except an iOS app.
It is there for facial recognition, but yeah it wasn’t included due to lacking iOS and Desktop app. I did make a note there as to what it was missing and that there is one soon to be released.
There’s a Files desktop app, which will sync photo folders as regular folders.
Any suggestions for an Android camera app that works nicely with immich?
Any of them, Immich auto upload just picks up the files as they appear in the folder.
I’m doing research on self-hosted solutions as we speak. Here’s a comparison table of many different options. I’ve settled on Immich and am just about to start setting it up now.
Is this Ente adv?
No Ente is paid where a lot of the other options are free. It just so happened that it was the only one that covered all these specific feature sets.
