PhotoPrism VS photoprism-mobile

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.

Shout out for photo prism, similar concept, with nice ai search, and doesn't need next cloud, just a folder. https://www.photoprism.app/

No affiliation, just a happy consumer.

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

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).

2. Self host a similar cloud service such as photoprism (https://www.photoprism.app/)

Both have pros and cons and depending on your technical skills you can opt for option 2 of self hosting.

Option 1 will cost but privacy and getting locked out of account by company is big problem.

I personally use option 2 and feature wise its similar to big companies. let me know if you need more details about option 2.

I wouldn’t describe myself as a photographer so take with a grain of salt. A combination of iCloud and self hosted PhotoPrism [1] is perfect for me. My phone automatically backs up everything to both locations so I’m not worried about loosing anything and both do a good job of organizing by date/location/event. I can happily take photos without worrying that I’ll need to sift through them all at a later date. When I happen to use a camera that isn’t my phone (Mavic Mini being the most frequent), I can add the photos to both locations from my laptop. Apple does a great job of packaging and presenting ‘memories’ at a later date.

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

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

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

Interesting! There is also photoprism-mobile, but both project doesn't seem to be in active development.

The maintainers are only taking responsibility for the PWA, but there is a mobile app out there which depends on the backend code waiting for review in https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/pull/995 . You can use the temporarily forked version of photoprism with the necessary backend API changes and use the mobile app just fine.

PhotoPrism (version 2): Mobile App for PhotoPrism

i've been playing with photoprism (seems to meet all your requirements) in docker for a while. as i've seen your comment i searched for a mobile app, apparently there is one: https://github.com/thielepaul/photoprism-mobile i'll probably try it at some point.

You may want to clarify what having an app means. There is a native app for photoprism, for both Android and iOS. It's just not "official". The table implies there's none at all.

If you want to view photoprism in mobile, the browser does an okay job, but if you want a dedicated app for it, the mobile app curently seems to be incompatible with the latest version of photoprism.

The more you know! https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism-mobile

There is an (official app in development)[https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism-mobile], but honestly the web app through a mobile browser works a lot better