icloud_photos_downloader VS stingle-photos-android

> 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…

Stingle Photos (version 2.11.0): Stingle Photos is a secure, end-to-end encrypted gallery and sync app

Also remembered, you have Stingle Photos too.

It's basically a backend server for Stingle.

c2FmZQ surely has a terrible name but I guess it ticks all of your points otherwise. It is a fork of Stingle. I only see one issue: while the Android app is available with selfhosting patches, you probably would have to update and build the iOS app by yourself.

I used it years ago. Now I use Stingle.

Try Stingle, The most private E2EE cloud storage( photos + vids only) that I have personally known. They even provide 1GB storage for free.

You can use Stingle Photos (Website, App Store), they offer 1GB free backup and unlimited (or limited to device capacity) photo encryption. Their servers are in the US but you don't have to use them if you only encrypt