PhotoPrism VS immich

I have been using https://www.photoprism.app for a couple of years, and it works better than expected, with the latest updates it's actually quite fast and the face tagging works reasonably well.

For self-hosting, there's Photoprism[1] as well.

Ente's strength lies in end-to-end encryption[2] and its cloud[3] offering so you don't have to worry about reliability.

So if self-hosting is what you're after, Immich, Photoprism and Damselfly (TIL!) are perhaps better designed to serve your needs.

[1]: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

[2]: https://ente.io/architecture

[3]: https://ente.io/reliability

For quite a while I'm also in search for a solution which allows me to share galleries with my family, without having to ask them to jump through hoops in order to access them.

After some searching I'm now testing photoprism [1] which is a fantastic application, especially for self-hosting of photos. There's no mobile app for it (yet) and user-management is just starting to get implemented, but it shows alot of promise. Unfortunately not yet enough for putting it on the tablet of my granny but one can hope (and donate!)

Either way, I'm afraid that building a good mobile gallery app is an equally large task, after all the best solution would be to replace the users' native gallery-app with an equivalent that also supports custom Online-Galleries...

[1]: https://www.photoprism.app/

out of curiosity, why no sort-of-established pkg and internal dirs? What do you think of https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism structure?

Thank you!

Ente was first a piece of hardware, then a self-host-able project, but we had a hard time monetizing both, which lead to the E2EE pivot.

TIL about TagSpaces, thanks!

Our server can be open-sourced, but we're unsure of the value E2EE will provide, with services like Photoprism[1] and Immich[2] already doing a good job of serving customers who prefer to self host. In this context E2EE might become a constraint, rather than a feature.

[1]: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

[2]: https://github.com/immich-app/immich

Ive seen github issues like this one https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/issues/907 in which it is implied that this is very very difficult.

Hi. I want to implement an image server similar to Photoprism using ImageAI to tag images based on objects and context. However I don't want to spend to much time working on the frontend, at first I were thinking about using Danbooru and use Flexbooru or the web interface on my phone. But it doesn't have any encryption or password protection (since the purpose of it is to be used as a public image board).

https://www.photoprism.app in Docker.

PhotoPrism[0] and some ugly plumbing[1] to semantically tag all images in the gallery.

0: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

on quick inspection, this seems to be the case. I was thinking this was an https://immich.app/ competitor. Different use case I suppose. If the client is end to end encrypted, maybe the client communicates directly with the cloud providers?

Not entirely what you're looking for, but https://github.com/immich-app/immich has worked well for me, running on my own server.

In my opinion, Immich is a very perspective application with a large number of contributors and a rapidly growing community. If you like it, consider joining the contributors or translators to make Immich better.

GitHub https://github.com/immich-app/immich GitHub Star 44.1k GitHub Fork 2.2k GitHub Issue 370 GitHub Pull Request 60 GitHub Contributor 738 Open Source License AGPL-3.0 Official Website https://immich.app/ Documentation https://immich.app/docs

Link: immich-app/immich

I selfhost my photos with immich[1]. The drives are mirrored via zfs and get backuped daily to borgbase[2] with restic[3]

[1] https://immich.app/

I'm particularly excited about FUTO funding Immich [0], a photo management app similar to Google Photos. The money allowed the FUTO devs to go full-time [1]

[0] https://immich.app/

[1] https://immich.app/blog/2024/immich-core-team-goes-fulltime/

There's lots of different implementations. For example Immich (https://immich.app/) is fully self-hosted and does local recognition. It doesn't have to be an online service stealing your data.