photos-web VS photos-desktop

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.

For an example, let's take https://github.com/ente-io/bada-frame. Let's say we found it interesting and want to give it a spin. First we clone the repository:

The best part is, you don't have to take our word for it, since our apps are open source (mobile, web). :)

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