Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

• Nextcloud

  607 25,494 10.0 PHP

  ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

  

Nextcloud! I can't praise and recommend them enough! https://nextcloud.com/

You can self-host it, it's license is ASGI, so it's never going away, and it has an app for photos: https://github.com/nextcloud/photos

and another one where you can put all your photos on a map:

• stingle-photos-android

  28 303 5.3 Java

  Stingle Photos is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted media gallery application that provides backup, sharing and cross-platform sync functionality without sacrificing convenience.

  

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• librephotos

  127 6,500 9.5 Python

  A self-hosted open source photo management service. This is the repository of the backend.

  

• Photonix

  54 1,765 0.0 Python

  A modern, web-based photo management server. Run it on your home server and it will let you find the right photo from your collection on any device. Smart filtering is made possible by object recognition, face recognition, location awareness, color analysis and other ML algorithms.

  

Hi, We have another open source solution for you - Photonix (https://photonix.org/). We've been working on it for a few years now but it's getting more feature-rich every month.

Key features: web-based, ML auto-detection of objects, colors and styles, map view, Android and iOS apps, ARM/Raspberry Pi support, works with your existing photo folder structure.

Face recognition/matching is almost done and we're also planning a cloud-hosted service for those that don't want to/can't self-host.

For those interested in the tech - the backend is Python, frontend is React-based, ML is done with Tensorflow/Keras, building is done via Docker, APIs use GraphQL.

Hopefully see some of you over at https://github.com/photonixapp/photonix

• awesome-privacy

  110 11,841 7.7

  Awesome Privacy - A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy because PRIVACY MATTERS.

This HN post [1] from a few days ago offers some alternatives to Google Photos [2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27294703

[2]: https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy#photo-storage

• Piwigo

  53 3,026 9.2 PHP

  Manage your photos with Piwigo, a full featured open source photo gallery application for the web. Star us on Github! More than 200 plugins and themes available. Join us and contribute!

  

My father started his self-hosting journey with a similar need. He went with Piwigo (https://piwigo.org/) that seems to fit his requirements.

Not sure I would personally pick that (PHP, documentation misaligned with my concerns...), but it may match others' criteria.

• OwnPhotos

  9 2,741 0.0 Jupyter Notebook

  Self hosted alternative to Google Photos

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• photoview

  101 4,672 3.3 TypeScript

  Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers (by photoview)

  

• photos-app

  120 547 9.9 Dart

  Discontinued ➡️ Moved to https://github.com/ente-io/ente

  

• web-client

  137 434 4.2 JavaScript

  Cryptee's web client source code for all platforms.

  

• Duplicacy

  136 5,009 5.6 Go

  A new generation cloud backup tool

I run nextcloud on my home NAS with 8TB of data. I use https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy for backups to azure blob. Strong recommendation from me, I tried so many backup solutions... including Borg, duplicity, rsync, and I don't even remember the rest anymore. Duplicacy's no database solution and support for a zillion destination options really got me.

• PixelFed

  158 5,411 9.9 PHP

  Photo Sharing. For Everyone.

  

Pixelfed is a federated image sharing based on Activity Pub protocol: https://pixelfed.org/.

• photos

  25 489 9.7 JavaScript

  📸 Your memories under your control (by nextcloud)

  

Nextcloud! I can't praise and recommend them enough! https://nextcloud.com/

You can self-host it, it's license is ASGI, so it's never going away, and it has an app for photos: https://github.com/nextcloud/photos

and another one where you can put all your photos on a map:

• gitmoo-goog

  9 99 3.6 Go

  A Google Photos backup tool.

• gphotos-sync

  36 1,919 7.5 Python

  Google Photos and Albums backup with Google Photos Library API

https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync

I run one on my wife's account with a cron job to grab new photos daily.

• syncthing-android

  1,233 3,025 9.2 Java

  Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

  

Different tool, but this forum post lists some options: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/automatic-phone-uploads/2...

Some of the tools recommend are:

https://syncthing.net/

https://www.resilio.com/

https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html

• Chevereto Free

  13 2,624 6.6 PHP

  Discontinued Community/Personal Image Hosting

  

• icloud_photos_downloader

  97 5,885 8.3 Python

  A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud

  

I've been using icloud-photos-downloader[0] for a while now, running as a Scheduled Task on my Synology. It supports 2FA as well, I just have to re-auth every 3-4 months.

[0] : https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

• icloud_photos_do

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I've been using icloud-photos-downloader[0] for a while now, running as a Scheduled Task on my Synology. It supports 2FA as well, I just have to re-auth every 3-4 months.

[0] : https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

• tagaway

  1 59 8.2 JavaScript

  A home for your digital pictures

  

- We are a cloud service, but all our code is open source (https://github.com/altocodenl/acpic).

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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