icloud_photos_downloader VS photos-app

> They don't offer an appropriate API to get photos out.

There's this: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/photokit "The framework provides access to photos on the person’s device and in iCloud."

If you want to use undocumented APIs on non-Apple devices directly, there are projects like https://github.com/steilerDev/icloud-photos-sync and https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do... that appear to be able to do this.

If you have iCloud, you can use icloud.com to get all your photos in a zip.

Or you can use scripts like this one : https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

I use https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do... running on my NAS to regularly download photos from my wife's iCloud account. The photos are stored in full resolution on iCloud with the EXIF data, unlike Google Photos, so that's nice. The only annoyance is that you need to reauthorize the tool every three months. But it sends you a reminder when the time is coming up.

I keep my photos in iCloud and sync them up to a Synology NAS (using icloudpd) which is backed up to Backblaze B2.

Direct project link https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader

I was able to download 2 x 2TB (4TB) icloud photos accounts using this in 2 days if you are comfortable with the command line https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader There’s no other solution the mac app was very slow and was gonna takes weeks for me but this app downloaded everything in 2 days

A set of PowerShell scripts to download and organize iCloud media. The scripts use the awesome iCloud downloader from https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader to do the actual download. And the organization happens in a specific way…

ente - encrypted photo storage (version 0.7.92): ente is an end-to-end encrypted photo storage app

The format isn't natively supported on mobile, but we can transcode and render them. We have created an issue to track this: github.com/ente-io/photos-app/issues/1269

Hey, we've added an item to our roadmap to configure a lockscreen different from the system lockscreen: github.com/ente-io/photos-app/issues/1240

Hey, this is already on our radar: github.com/ente-io/photos-app/issues/1226

Hey, not sure how popular this feature will be, since all your metadata is end-to-end encrypted and only accessible to you, but have added this to our roadmap anyway: github.com/ente-io/photos-app/issues/1219

We don't automatically sync media movement from the device to ente, as users might have already organized their media on ente, possibly on a different device. However, we understand that this could be a valuable feature, perhaps as an album-level configuration. We've added this to our roadmap.

Hey, we recently added support to playback Motion Photos to our Flutter app.

We also wrote a guide to set it up. Our code is open source, so you can easily refer to the crowdin config and GitHub action config.

ente - encrypted photo storage (version 0.7.43): ente is an end-to-end encrypted photo storage app