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.
Do you feel immich is mature enough to be a primary photos app? I may go the route of nextcloud as I’m planning to migrate to nextcloud from synology drive. Didn’t realize they had a photos backup app ad well.
From immich.app:
Yeah that was my point. That’s why NC is my main and Immich is my secondary.
Oh, I misunderstood. I just set up immich and have my backups, so I won’t have to worry how mature immich is. The design is really great!
It performs well, but the app performance has been flaky for me in the past. I just reinstalled it yesterday and it hasn’t failed yet, fwiw. The dev also states on the project site that it is very much not ready to be your only solution, as things could break.
For my NC setup I just dump my photos into a folder and use that as a backup. They do have a Photos plugin, though, which gives you traditional gallery views and controls. I think NC will be my long term backup solution but I’m actively evaluating other options.