Looking for an alternative to synology photos. I moved over to synology about 3 years ago and am now considering moving out of the synology ecosystem. I’m looking for something that has a decent android app, wifi syncing, shareable albums, all the standard stuff.
Edit: thanks for the many replies, I’ll likely move to nextcloud as I was planning on deploying that anyway as a synology drive replacement. I’ll look into immich as well.
I tested all of the top options listed on the FOSS photo galleries list. I settled on Immich, and so as of earlier today I currently have everything from GPhotos in Immich, with my phone backing up to both while I get my off-site backup set up. Immich has two drawbacks I consider minor enough for it to come out ahead, but major enough for it to still fall short of truly competing with GP. First, you can jnky select multiple things by tapping them one by one. No tap, hold, drag on mobile. No shift clicking on PC. Next, they have pretty good face recognition, but you can’t…do anything with it? You can’t set albums to auto add certain faces. You can’t assign those people to contacts and auto share with them.
For me all I really need in a photos app is reliable backup from my phone to my nas. My wife on the other hand, she takes lots of photos that she likes to organize into albums and share with family, so she’s really the deciding factor, i don’t think she really need the facial recognition, it may be useful but really it’s just being able to make albums, sort by month or year, share content, that kind of stuff.
Yeah your camera roll or whatever looks and feels exactly like GP. Albums are still a little lacking. No sorting options (currently limited to oldest at the top, newest all the way at the bottom), no comments. The sharing functionality appears to all be there, at least. The dev is very active on GitHub and Discord, implementing fixes and changes as people bring them up daily. Their entire thing is making a GP replacement their own wife is happy with. Future seems bright for it, but it isn’t quite there yet…yet! Lol
I’ve tried everything. If you like a modern UI and simplicity, you want immich. The lead dev designs the app specifically so his wife is happy using it, and it shows.
Nothing beats Google Photos for me, personally.
So I bought a used Google Pixel 1 (first gen) and use Syncthing to sync my camera roll from my phone to the Pixel 1.
Google originally advertised the Pixel 1 as having unlimited cloud storage for life, so they have to stick to it. I don’t pay for Google storage but I’ve got at least 500gb stored in Google Photos (including all my RAW photos and my digitised VHS tapes).
I’ll abuse this system until the Pixel 1 dies and I can’t get another one, then I’ll cry.
Immich is still in relatively active development, but has a great feature set and is the only app that could reasonably replace Google Photos for me. Can recommend!
Moved to immich from Google photos recently, it’s an awesome replacement and the ml stuff works really well actually
What was your migration process like?
Not bad at all, set it to sync the photos on my phone with the app and imported photos I had on a drive previously, I still need to get a download of all of my Google photos that aren’t on my phone though
The Google Photos part is the what I’m dreading. But good to see immich improving and being recommended more and more.
immich, alternative for google photos. there’s a demo portal for it.
Does Immich support deduplication of images? I have a large set of old scanned photos that I put on photoprism that has deduplication listed as one of its features. It puts photos in its own database.
Also, how is the face recognition of Immich when compared to others like photoprism?
Jist moved from Photoprism to Immich. Glad i did. Mich better feature set, active development, and multi-user capability isn’t locked behind a paid subscription.
Immich seems to be really focused on pictures from phones. Which is probably useful for many, but not all people.
Syncthing?
Sorry, I’m not sure what your question refers to.
Try syncthing
To do what?
Sync pics and video from mobile to Nas, pc or anything capable.
Oh. I just run an rsync script for that. It updates an archive that’s on a NAS. Which will be replaced by a TrueNAS system next year.
Immich for personal photos and pictures I take
Lychee as an image host for funny pictures, memes, and publically sharing photos
PhotoStructure
I really think there’s nothing better than Photostructure in terms of viewing and re-discovering your photos. It’s still a young product going through growing pains, but the things it does, it does well.
The deduping is very good, too.
I’ve been meaning to spend some time setting up PhotoStructure last year, but never got around to it. I tried it on my desktop PC but want to install it on a server. Eventually :)
Nextcloud but that’s just because it happens to have photos on it. I’ve not got an alternative to Google photos yet (And I’m halfway through my bloody storage!)
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Why don’t you use LetsEncrypt? You shouldn’t be self signing certs these days
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If you own a domain name you can use DNS challenge for obtaining the ssl cert, no need to open ports to get a cert issued. Nginx proxy manager has this feature built in and has support for many DNS name registrars.
If you have Prime and aren’t insisting on self hosting: Amazon Photos gives you unlimited full quality photo backups.
What sub are you on?
Self hosted. Though hey someone may wind up here via all and scroll and wonder what else there is.
I’m running Immich on an Odroid N2 and it’s great! https://immich.app/
Wow, what a terrible font choice!
Don’t judge the project based on that. It’s genuinely a quality application once you get it up and running.
