frame VS photos-desktop

Compare frame vs photos-desktop and see what are their differences.

frame

System-wide Web3 for macOS, Windows and Linux (by floating)

photos-desktop

📦 Binary releases of the Ente Photos desktop app (by ente-io)
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frame photos-desktop
23 17
1,106 113
0.7% 4.4%
1.5 7.6
4 days ago 22 days ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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frame

Posts with mentions or reviews of frame. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-16.
  • Daily General Discussion - June 21, 2023
    1 project | /r/ethfinance | 21 Jun 2023
    Regarding your earlier comments on Frame, did you try the AppImage? At least on the x86 side of things, the AppImage just works, and I don't think I've ever seen an AppImage that didn't "just work". The arm64 version can be seen on their releases page here: https://github.com/floating/frame/releases/tag/v0.6.6
  • Multichain UX is… Kind of Bad [Rant]
    1 project | /r/ethfinance | 7 Jun 2023
    Using frame.sh instead of metamask helps. It isn't connected to a single chain at a time, but all of the chains you've added. For example you can use dapps on multiple chains at the same time but never go through the step of switching networks. Also sounds like what you're really complaining about is delay period for fraud proofs, that should not be abstracted away because bridging without waiting is likely costing you more than you're making in returns if you bridge too often.
  • Daily General Discussion - May 16, 2023
    13 projects | /r/ethfinance | 16 May 2023
  • Is Ethereum's network traffic fully centralized, or am I wrong?
    2 projects | /r/CryptoCurrency | 15 May 2023
    MetaMask provides an extension to add a wallet feature to your browser so that you can interact with dapps. This was the first project to provide this feature back in the day, but it's now quite outdated; A much better alternative would be Frame. A wallet needs an RPC node to talk to, and a new user doesn't want to have to worry about this, so MetaMask uses Infura as their default. But you can go into settings and change it, either to your own node or to a node hosted by someone else.
  • Did I lose my ETH?
    1 project | /r/ethereum | 20 Apr 2023
    As your next step, I'd suggest trying alternative apps for accessing and managing your account(s). I'd personally suggest Frame (https://frame.sh/), but most use MetaMask (which is available as a browser extension).
  • Best Wallet For USDC?
    1 project | /r/ethereum | 18 Apr 2023
    gotcha, maybe check out frame (https://frame.sh) — you can import any wallets, hardware, seeds, private keys, etc. If you want to use it with any defi, there’s a companion browser extension.
  • MEW keystore v4 export
    1 project | /r/MyEtherWallet | 6 Apr 2023
    I work on Frame (frame.sh) and used MEW to get a keystore file for testing our import keystore flow. The file I got was a different version (v4) and format from the expected v3, and our import flow does not support it at all. Digging deeper, we use `ethereumjs-wallet` to parse the keystore files - this library does not have a fromV4 method, and the existing fromV3 does not work at all with the MEW file.
  • Daily General Discussion - April 2, 2023
    2 projects | /r/ethfinance | 2 Apr 2023
    Just wanted to install frame.sh as a new web3 wallet. It tells me to add "frame companion" to Edge, it warns me about:
  • Ledger seed phrase doesn't include Ethereum?
    1 project | /r/ethereum | 20 Mar 2023
    So try MetaMask, or my personal favourite for stuff like this is: http://frame.sh and play around with derivation paths.
  • What tools do you use in crypto?
    3 projects | /r/CryptoCurrency | 14 Mar 2023
    Frame Wallet does a few things Rabby doesn't and also supports hardware wallets but lacks the contact security check.

photos-desktop

Posts with mentions or reviews of photos-desktop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-15.
  • Homomorphic Encryption in iOS 18
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2025
    A quick shoutout to Ente Photos[0]. FOSS with an opt-in locally-run semantic search of your photos. The first encoding with a ton of photos may take a few minutes in the background, but after that it takes no time with subsequent photo uploads. I'm not sure why Apple is going through the trouble of uploading the photos and incorporating homomorphic encryption for something this simple, particularly with their push for local AI and their Neural Engine[2].

    I also appreciate Ente's Guest View[1] that lets you select the photos you want to show someone in person on your phone to prevent the issue of them scrolling too far.

    [0] https://github.com/ente-io/ente

    [1] https://ente.io/blog/guest-view/

    [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_Engine

  • Mozilla grants Ente- a private Google Photos alternative- $100k
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2024
  • Other than self hosting, what is the best privacy based and secure alternative to Google Photos?
    4 projects | /r/privacy | 19 Jun 2023
    No, we don't have a CLI yet, but it's on our roadmap. You could follow the issue here: https://github.com/ente-io/photos-desktop/issues/189
  • Observations and ideas from a returning user
    1 project | /r/enteio | 27 May 2023
    We have recently introduced the concept of Uncategorized photos. We will introduce this within the upload dialog as well, so that you can skip picking / creating an album. Thanks for bringing this up, I've created an issue to track this.
  • iphone strategy, advice needed
    1 project | /r/enteio | 21 May 2023
    Have created a Github issue to track this: github.com/ente-io/photos-desktop/issues/172
  • [AMA] I'm Vishnu, CEO of ente.io - e2ee alternative to Google Photos -- Ask Me Anything
    6 projects | /r/degoogle | 19 Feb 2023
    Your files (and their metadata) are stored end-to-end encrypted on ente. This by definition means that only you can access them. Now in addition to the documents on our architecture and reliability, we also live publish the source code to all our apps (mobile, web, desktop). Our releases are available on F-Droid as well as Github, where the apps are built straight from the source. So in the off-chance that you don't wish to blindly trust us, you can still verify that your data is end-to-end encrypted by either building the app from it's source or simpler still, grabbing the app from one of these stores. We intend to publish reproducible builds to other stores as well (they unfortunately don't make it as simple as Github or F-Droid), so that it's technically impossible for us to deviate from our claims.
  • web.ente.io load issues
    1 project | /r/enteio | 7 Apr 2022
    In the meanwhile, we have a desktop app for Linux (RPM / DEB), that you could check out.
  • Advice for someone who is heavily dependant on Google
    3 projects | /r/degoogle | 26 Nov 2021
    Windows
  • Is there any Photo cloud storage thats better than Cryptee?
    3 projects | /r/privacytoolsIO | 29 Oct 2021
    Hey, we've been building ente.io as an alternative to Google / Apple Photos that provides a simple way to encrypt and back up your photos and videos. We've apps across Android, iOS, web and desktop.
  • Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2021
    Our pricing model is such that the product can self sustain itself. Also, we have a desktop app[1] that syncs your uploaded data to a local drive, so you don't have to worry about a lock-in.

    But even if we do have to sunset the service due to unforeseeable reasons, our cold storage is relatively inexpensive and we will give our customers ample time to migrate out.

    Also, in such a scenario we would want to publish our entire system in an easily deployable way so that all our efforts would not be in vain.

    [1]: https://github.com/ente-io/bhari-frame/releases/latest

What are some alternatives?

When comparing frame and photos-desktop you can also consider the following projects:

eth-crypto - Cryptographic javascript-functions for ethereum and tutorials to use them with web3js and solidity

photos-web - ➡️ Moved to https://github.com/ente-io/ente

eth-sdk - Type-safe, lightweight SDKs for Ethereum smart contracts

photoprism - Personal Photo Management powered by Go and Google TensorFlow

chainlist

photos-app - ➡️ Moved to https://github.com/ente-io/ente

stingle-photos-android - Stingle Photos is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted media gallery application that provides backup, sharing and cross-platform sync functionality without sacrificing convenience.

web-extension - mega.nz browser extensions

webext-signed-pages - A browser extension to verify the authenticity (PGP signature) of web pages

AWSPics - An AWS CloudFormation stack to run a serverless password-protected photo gallery

disco3-react - disco3 - well typed and performant web3 react library

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