Ente Alternatives

ente reviews and mentions

• Show HN: First major release of Ente Photos – v1.0
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2025

  Hi HN,

  We started building Ente in 2020 as an end-to-end encrypted[1] alternative to Google Photos.

  We've come a long way since then,

  - deploying on-device machine learning[2]

  - undergoing a cryptography audit[3]

  - open sourcing everything[4]

  - replicating to 3 clouds[5]

  - and shipping a lot of features[6]

  We're trying to build a business that can outlive us, so we have a long way to go – this is only v1.0.

  HN has been historically kind with feedback[7][8], a lot of which has influenced our culture in engineering, product, and marketing.

  If you've any thoughts on what we could do better, please do share.

  Thank you!

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

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

  [3]: https://ente.io/blog/cryptography-audit

  [4]: https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server

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

  [6]: https://ente.io

  [7]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28347439

  [8]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39570692

• Ente: Self Host the Google Photos Alternative and Own Your Privacy
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Feb 2025

  There are screenshots on ente.io [0] and their GitHub repo [1]

  [0] https://ente.io/

• Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Feb 2025

  Very disappointed with this, but I think will be finding alternatives.

  Family sharing especially of Reminders is a hard one - we use lists for grocery shopping and it is extremely convenient.

  Has anyone tried out Ente https://ente.io/ for photos?

• Show HN: Automated Sorting of group photos by user defined N people in each pic
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2025

  Ente[0] has this feature (locally run on mobile/desktop). It marks recognized faces in your gallery and then you can search for any combination of faces.

  [0]: https://ente.io/

• On-Device Machine Learning for Photos
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jan 2025

  Hi HN, we're the team behind Ente Photos, and we just published a deep-dive into how we built private, on-device ML features for photo discovery - an effort that's been in development for over a year.

  What makes our approach unique is that we're running sophisticated ML features (semantic search, face recognition) entirely on users' devices while being fully open-source[1]. All ML results are then synced across devices using end-to-end encryption[2] - an approach we haven't seen anywhere else in the industry.

  Building this was complex given the different platforms and devices we support, combined with limited compute resources. We had to write numerous custom implementations for image processing and rebuild data science tools from scratch to work across different platforms.

  Our users can search their photos using natural language or find pictures of specific people, all while keeping their photos private[3]. No data ever leaves their device unencrypted, and the ML processing happens entirely locally.

  Happy to answer any questions!

  [1] https://github.com/ente-io/ente

• They See Your Photos
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Dec 2024

  Ente CLI [0] has an export service with read only access to the cloud and deletes are renamed.

  The Go binary runs everywhere including most NAS except at least 1GB RAM is needed for decrypting the master key due to Argon2.

  [0] https://github.com/ente-io/ente/tree/main/cli

• Apple courier may have stolen 2 MacBooks, () Apple is not going to help
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Nov 2024
• AI projects to watch: Mozilla's first Builders Accelerator cohort kicks off
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2024

  Particularly noteworthy for me (as someone doing Elixir & ML at the moment) is the 100k$ attributed to Elixir Nx:

  > Building a cutting-edge distributed ML framework with Elixir from Nx – Creating a scalable, distributed machine learning framework that outperforms current solutions, the Nx project leverages Elixir’s unique strengths in multitasking and fault-tolerance. By automatically spreading tasks across multiple devices, Nx aims to deliver a more scalable and efficient solution.

  And lots of other interesting projects, including https://github.com/enjalot/latent-scope, https://github.com/Intelligent-Instruments-Lab/tolvera, https://ente.io/, https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker ...

• Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2024
• Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2024

  We have intentionally opted out of this[1][2] for now, since we did not want to create a dependency on iCloud for backups.

  So if you purchase a new device, you will either have to sign in to Ente Auth again (for E2EE sync), or export your codes from the older device, and import it to the newer device.

  [1]: https://github.com/ente-io/ente/blob/8b696b1242bce2f166ddd6a...

  [2]: https://github.com/mogol/flutter_secure_storage/blob/cb30953...

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