photoprism VS photos-desktop

Photoprism does indeed have features that are added under a subscription. All of the functionality is the same, subscribing just adds customization to your interface, and it allows unlimited reverse geocoding (otherwise, it is rate-limited, according to the documentation). There is a limit to the maximum resolution as well. No reason why you can't use the product for free, however.

Was looking at an old thread on this, https://photoprism.app/features was a suggestion you haven't gotten in this thread yet.

I started using Photoprism instead a couple years ago and have been quite happy with it so far. I'd recommend looking into that project. Their roadmap is here. Memories like you asked is in there, but I doubt it's coming anytime soon as it seems they have other priorities and a very small team.

* They have the community version/premium model. Differentiators of premium (from https://photoprism.app/features):

PhotoPrism has a bunch of photo management features, but it's self-hosted so you'd have to run it yourself at home or on a VPS.

Is Photoprism in the ballpark of what they might be looking for? They have a demo that you could try searching for the metadata you'd plan to use.

Have you seen Photoprism? It does some of the things you're saying. Organization is in a dated hierarchy, then you search from there. As far as editing, I guess you could try mounting the WebDAV and importing that to your library. Could probably also network mount the /originals/ directory from the NAS and then simply import the sidecar files generated. Apparently, multiple users feature is coming soon, until then the admin account could be used like a shared account.

You could put something like Minio (https://min.io/) for syncing via S3 and Photoprism (https://photoprism.app/features) for sharing / tagging on the VPS. Look into Docker to ease the pain of hosting / configuring services on a server. The downside is that you still have to manage the VPS, plus pay for the hosting and the domain name. The upshot is that this adheres to "freedom" and keeps your home network secure.

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

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.

Have created a Github issue to track this: github.com/ente-io/photos-desktop/issues/172

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.

In the meanwhile, we have a desktop app for Linux (RPM / DEB), that you could check out.

Windows

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.

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

Unlike other providers, we also have a desktop app that lets you easily sync the uploaded files to a local disk drive. Mentioning this since in your particular backup strategy, this might help you replicate data from your phone to Backblaze wirelessly (phone -> ente -> hdd -> b2).

A desktop app that lets you keep a local copy of all the items you've backed up on ente