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. Features beyond the photo vault are not why you pick it. Confirm in their docs what is actually encrypted before you move a family archive. A young encrypted backup is still better than a camera roll sitting in a Google account you forgot you had, if you keep your own export.
Use it if you want encrypted photo backup without Ente’s subscription shape. stingle.org
Stingle’s value is encrypted backup, not a social gallery. Before you move years of photos, export a small album, delete it on one device, and restore it. If that drill fails, you do not have a backup yet. A small team means you should keep an unencrypted export in a locked disk as well, which feels like it defeats the point and actually survives the project going quiet. Do not use that export as the everyday copy.
