The author explores alternatives to mainstream photo apps, seeking privacy and control. They try PhotoPrism, LibrePhotos, Immich, and Ente Photos, ultimately favoring Ente for its ease, privacy, and low maintenance.
  • Suzune@ani.socialEnglish
    40·
    5 days ago

    I tried Photoprism, Ente and Immich.

    Immich is by far the best. It has got an app that really does what it should do, has an AI that actually works and is easy to host and to update.

    • DancingTable@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 days ago

      Last I tried Immich its background upload was horrible.

      Some of that is definitely iOS being bad, but other apps at least semi-worked when Immich didn’t at all.

      I might try it again, though. See if it’s improved.

      • sbird@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        14 hours ago

        When I used iOS, background upload seemed to work okay. On both iOS and Android, though, I occasionally go into the app to manually backup since both like to kill background processes to save on battery life.

      • ohshittheyknow@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        6·
        5 days ago

        They mentioned “better background backups” as a enhancement as since version 1.141.1 which was released on 9/8/2025. Personally I just started testing it after v2.0 so I’m not sure how bad it was previously but have not seen any significant issues with backup.

      • Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        Tailscale with a subnet router running for my home network makes it so that I can just connect to 192.168.50.57 from wherever I like.

      • Suzune@ani.socialEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        I’ve got Wireguard running. As soon I am on wifi, my phone uploads the new pictures.

      • Ghoelian@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        I use nextcloud as a general drive, where I also upload photos automatically. Then I just mount the images folder in my immich container.