Alternative for Google Photos

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:32:05 +0100

hans@social.woefdram.nl

Does anyone know #immich a bit? My brother is looking for an alternative for Google Photos (finally trying to get out of their web, it seems) and feels immich could be it.

I don't know it, hadn't even heard of it, so I can't tell him to switch (even though it can only be better than Google 😉)

I thought he was looking for a decent alternative, so I suggested #Nextcloud (of course I did), but that didn't seem to do it for him. Apparently he wants to be able to seach his albums by location, I'm not sure if there's an app for that in Nextcloud.

https://immich.app/

#OpenSource #LeaveBigTech #GooglePhotos

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Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:34:38 +0100

Moritz

preya@mastodon.social

@hans Immich is a very good choice.

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:48:50 +0100

lothar

lothar@social.tchncs.de

Screenshot from Browser showing the "Map" view of Nextcloud's Memories app.

@hans
No experience re. #Immich (only read it's good).
However: #Nextcloud, particularly combined with the “Memories” app, has decent support for photos; working with location data included.
Nextcloud _only_ for photos might be overkill, though, as you get enough to replace most, if not all of Google. 😉
E.g.:

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:09:24 +0100

Hans van Zijst

hans@social.woefdram.nl

@lothar Nice! I didn't know the Memories app, although I've used Nextcloud since it was named ownCloud.

Looks nice, I should install that app and play with it a bit. I have quite some photos to which I added GPS coordinates (my "real" camera doesn't have a GPS receiver).

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:13:19 +0100 last edited: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:13:28 +0100

Kumar Ghosh

ku@c.im

@hans yeah location based search is pretty good in immich. It's also got very good face detection btw

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:48:45 +0100

repo :arch:

repo@mastodon-belgium.be

@hans
From the site:
The project is under very active development. Expect bugs and changes. Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:55:58 +0100

slamp

slamp@hachyderm.io

@hans
I use both with 2 different use cases:

#nextcloud memories to share photo of documents within the family
#immich to backup photos from family devices to my own nas using @tailscale (1)

#nextcloud memories : I found memories more stable but less efficient and slower for auto-tagging and face recognition.
In immich you can change the Machine Learning model used.

There is a nice comparison of FOSS images libraries here https://meichthys.github.io/foss_photo_libraries/

(1) I followed this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4PDUXB_fg

/cc @lothar

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:16:51 +0100

Stephen McNamara

noflcl@mastodon.social

@hans ente is another option for self hosted with the features he is looking for

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:38:37 +0100

dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker:

dch@bsd.network

@hans I like ente a lot @ente if you don't want to do the self-hosting side of things

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:42:45 +0100

Desikner

desikn@mastodon.social

@hans Immich is excellent but you need to self host. If you don't want to do that there's Ente, which is a good service for a Google Photos replacement.

https://ente.io

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:43:13 +0100

pileus

pileus@masto.bike

@hans
You can find your photos on a map in nextcloud thanks to maps app.
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/maps

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:12:31 +0100

Justin 🇻🇦

jforseth210@rcsocial.net

@hans Immich is great! Would absolutely recommend. Do you have anything specific you'd like to know about it?