Photos Storage

PhotoPrism is a self-hosted photo library with search for faces, places, objects, and colors, including RAW files. The recognition runs on your server. It is happy to index a folder you already sync with Nextcloud or Syncthing. It is a catalog, not a phone-backup service and not an offsite copy. The indexer is heavy. A […]

Stingle is a small open-source gallery with end-to-end encrypted backup for photos and videos. The project is not a large cloud company. Devices sync through storage that is supposed to be zero-knowledge, meaning the server holds ciphertext. Small means the apps are plainer than Ente or Immich, and a thin team is a bus-factor risk. […]

Ente is an end-to-end encrypted photo library. The apps are open source. Keys stay with you. Ente says the encrypted data is replicated across providers in more than one country so one outage is not the end of the archive. Face and object search run on the device, because the server cannot see the pictures. […]

Immich is a self-hosted photo system that feels close to Google Photos: phone apps, automatic backup, albums, and on-server face and object search. You run the server. The machine learning runs there, not at a vendor, which means the server has to be allowed to see the photos. That is the opposite of Ente. Development […]