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.

    • DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.de
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      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?

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        if they have the same hash the deduplication thing will work. if they are different quality or other stuff no. thare are plans to implement something regarding more advanced deduplication but not anything implemented at the moment.

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      Looks like a polished app but sadly it has issues on my Fennec/Firefox for Android

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    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.

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    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!

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      Moved to immich from Google photos recently, it’s an awesome replacement and the ml stuff works really well actually

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          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

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            The Google Photos part is the what I’m dreading. But good to see immich improving and being recommended more and more.

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    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.

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    Nextcloud. It’s definitely overkill for photos alone, but since you are likely to want it for other stuff anyway, why not use its gallery (which is decent) as well?

    I personally use it for backup and sharing, and do the bulk of my photos/collections management in digikam (reading from a fast network storage).

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      Does Nextcloud handle large numbers of photos nowadays? IIRC when I was comparing programs some years ago I read that both it and Owncloud struggled when you got to a few 10000s of photos.

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          I suppose “a few” is quite open to interpretation, but I have 50k photos now so if it can handle 100k without getting sluggish it’ll probably be fine for the foreseeable future.

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            Thanks for the recommendation, I don’t think it would help with my workflow (I do the classifying and curating in Digikam and then export to timestamped folders), but I’m sure many will find it useful :)

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      You should try installing the Memories app in Nextcloud. The built-in gallery is very limited and can’t read EXIF data.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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

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    The built-in gallery app on my samsung galaxy phone, in combination with syncthing.

    As long as the phone has enough storage for all your images, this has been my favourite selfhosted solution so far.

    I used Photoprism before, but I could never find an old picture quickly during a conversation. Now I can, 50% of the time 🫣

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    Photoprism, running on a Raspberry Pi 4. I’m just running it as a single user, and it’s been working well for that. A couple of notes:

    • Video transcoding is a bit iffy on the rpi, but I’m running it under docker and might just move it all to a mini pc at some point
    • I don’t have it accessible publicly, but get to it online via Tailscale
    • No app, but the Web interface is good.
    • I’m currently running it in “read only” mode (mainly out of initial paranoia when trying it out, but it seems fine) so I have syncthing backing up the photos from my phone wirelessly and occasionally do an import of new images in.
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    Been backing up to NextCloud using PhotoSync on iOS and Android the last few years. I also recently implemented Immich, and although that means doubled up photo backup, it’s nice to test out and witness firsthand just how much Immich is improving with every release.

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      I’m using NC too with the Memory app and not Immich. You that are using both what do you think? Do you think that one is better than the other?

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        I don’t use the Memory app specifically, just a photos. As far as browsing my backed up gallery, Immich winds hands down between that and NextCloud. The gallery and tagging id the closest to Google photos I’ve come in a long time.

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      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.

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        From immich.app:

        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!

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          Yeah that was my point. That’s why NC is my main and Immich is my secondary.

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            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!

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        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.

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      Can you point both to the same directory or is that what you mean by doubling backup that you need everything twice now?

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        You can, but only have one app (Immich or whatever you use to back up to NC) handle uploads. Right now I am doubling up but I have enough spare space that it isn’t affecting me, so I don’t mind.

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          Interesting, thanks. I just started using Nextcloud at home but once I am happy with the setup I will give this a try.