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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.
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rclone
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files
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GooglePhotosExportOrganizer
A (defunct) tool for merging and organizing exported Google Photos backups. Built with React and Electron!
Syncthing can do that. You can install their mobile apps on your devices, the desktop app on your computer and have all your files sync. Preferably, you'd have everything synced among at least three devices for redundancy's sake. But you could take other backup measures from your computer (Backblaze, external flash/hard drives, etc.)
Yes, Cryptomator! Basically you have an encrypted folder that's uploaded to any of the major cloud storage providers so you can read what's in it but they can't. Desktop app is free but the Android one costs a few quid.
I did a ton of research and the best solution that mirrors google photos is https://ente.io
If you don't want to have to deal with stripped metadata and having to run this periodically, you might also look into using something like rclone to keep your cloud accounts in sync with either another cloud account or your own computer. You could also install Google Drive on your computer and sync files any number of ways.
This tool can help! It merges the json files with metadata to the image file.