I have experience with both Ente and Immich and I can say they are both excellent. I like Ente a little bit more, but Immich is imho better for selfhosting (both are easy to self host). What I like about Immich in that regard is that it keeps photos organized as files too, they can be categorized in folders (like year > month > day and its customizable). I just want to have an option to have access to the files directly on the filesystem and if (big if) Immich dies, I still have my photos accessible and organized in directories without me needing to do anything. Ente uses s3 storage system.
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kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
TL;dr:
- PhotoPrism: Local AI with strong privacy but heavier setup.
- LibrePhotos: Same, but less polished, more community-built.
- Immich: Best self-hosted Google Photos alternative.
- Ente Photos: E2E encrypted, low-maintenance, most “plug and play”
dieTasse@feddit.org 3 days ago
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I haven’t used immich in a while, but ente felt like the more mature product when I was evaluating the two.
dieTasse@feddit.org 3 days ago
It feels quite equal now that immich is stable. I was actually waiting for that, because I knew the updates before the stable release were sometimes painful and I didn’t want to do that on my production env. 😀
FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
Apart from me maybe thinking immich should have built in backup tools, I’ve very much found it met my needs.
Ghoelian@piefed.social 3 days ago
Personally I host all this kind of stuff using containers, only mounting the folders that need backing up. Then I just back up all my podman volumes. It’s pretty nice not depending on any tools that have to be maintained or anything like that.
ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Immich’s AI search is so much better than PhotoPrism
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
It’s true. I uploaded a nude out of curiosity. I then searched “Penis”. It found my penis. Now if only my wife could too. 10/10 Immich best self hosted google photos replacement.
glibg@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Lol
pigup@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m sold!
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 days ago
It’s even better than Google’s in some regards.