If you’re interested in a self-hosted alternative, I can highly recommend immich. The UI is clean and fast (relative to Photoprism), has android and iOS apps, auto phone->server uploading, sharable albums, and more features. I don’t know anyone that has been disappointed after switching, and I see why
The biggest pain if you want to set it up is starting your home server if you don’t already have one. Otherwise I found setting up immich itself on a server pretty easy
I primarily found that when importing photos, it would take Photoprism a long time to generate thumbnails. It was long enough that I would give up on trying to sort through the photos after uploading and come back a few hours later
Alternatively with Immich, I dumped ~100 Halloween photos taken with my phone and DSLR onto the server. They were already previewable by the time the files were done uploading
I’ve already uninstalled Photoprism so I couldn’t tell you what my config was. Could have required more tuning; but I’m at a point in life where I’m leaning towards needing things to “just work”, than to have to tune things
Re: Unclean: IIRC, Photoprism gives you a lot of tools and options. More options and features = more stuff on your screen = a more cluttered UI. While I did like the tools, it also made it difficult to share with normies
The only problem with Immich is that it’s a fascism-supporting FUTO project. It’s excellent software, but don’t give them your money, because they’ll send it to fascists.
Reading that article, I’m confused. It seems more like Immich (among other projects) received donations from FUTO? It doesn’t say anywhere that they support FUTO. FUTO supports Immich, along with many other open source projects.
Sure it’s not ideal to receive “bad money” tired to problematic politics like that. But also you can’t exactly stop someone from donating to you, other than sending the money back.
Hadn’t heard of immich, I already run a plex server so shouldn’t be too bad to set up. That just leaves the big problem of switching all my existing accounts off gmail.
2nd this. Have it on a NAS box and the biggest task was just download and re uploading to Immich. Once on I find the UI pleasant and the face tagging is a nice touch.
Yo for years I had that stupid fucking Google warning about running out of space and got so sick and tired of it, now I get kinda giddy when I see “150gb/6tb used”
I love Ente, you can have 5 people spread across so it works out cheaper too. So in reality it’s like £2/person/month for ~200GB or £1 each for 40GB each.
There are other alternatives, I recently saw a really good one but I don’t remember it. Let me look for it and I’ll send it to you as soon as I find it, we use it at work
Ugh it’s going to be a pain to stop using Google, but it’s time. Long gone are the days of “don’t be evil”
If you’re interested in a self-hosted alternative, I can highly recommend immich. The UI is clean and fast (relative to Photoprism), has android and iOS apps, auto phone->server uploading, sharable albums, and more features. I don’t know anyone that has been disappointed after switching, and I see why
The biggest pain if you want to set it up is starting your home server if you don’t already have one. Otherwise I found setting up immich itself on a server pretty easy
Long time PhotoPrism user here, really curious what you find slow or unclean about it? Maybe I should switch.
I primarily found that when importing photos, it would take Photoprism a long time to generate thumbnails. It was long enough that I would give up on trying to sort through the photos after uploading and come back a few hours later
Alternatively with Immich, I dumped ~100 Halloween photos taken with my phone and DSLR onto the server. They were already previewable by the time the files were done uploading
I’ve already uninstalled Photoprism so I couldn’t tell you what my config was. Could have required more tuning; but I’m at a point in life where I’m leaning towards needing things to “just work”, than to have to tune things
Re: Unclean: IIRC, Photoprism gives you a lot of tools and options. More options and features = more stuff on your screen = a more cluttered UI. While I did like the tools, it also made it difficult to share with normies
The only problem with Immich is that it’s a fascism-supporting FUTO project. It’s excellent software, but don’t give them your money, because they’ll send it to fascists.
https://drewdevault.com/blog/Whats-up-with-FUTO/
Reading that article, I’m confused. It seems more like Immich (among other projects) received donations from FUTO? It doesn’t say anywhere that they support FUTO. FUTO supports Immich, along with many other open source projects.
Sure it’s not ideal to receive “bad money” tired to problematic politics like that. But also you can’t exactly stop someone from donating to you, other than sending the money back.
https://immich.app/
“Powered by FUTO”, front and center.
Damn, does that mean my home image server is evil?
Also, use Google takeout and the helper to keep meta and exif data intact, it will take hours and hours to run but it does a perfect job!
https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper
I feel immich-go might be a better choice: https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
Hadn’t heard of immich, I already run a plex server so shouldn’t be too bad to set up. That just leaves the big problem of switching all my existing accounts off gmail.
2nd this. Have it on a NAS box and the biggest task was just download and re uploading to Immich. Once on I find the UI pleasant and the face tagging is a nice touch.
Yo for years I had that stupid fucking Google warning about running out of space and got so sick and tired of it, now I get kinda giddy when I see “150gb/6tb used”
Ente worked for me. More pricey, yes. But you do not pay with your data… Also e2e encrypted, good family plans and sharing works good.
And one of their backup locations is an underground bunker
I love Ente, you can have 5 people spread across so it works out cheaper too. So in reality it’s like £2/person/month for ~200GB or £1 each for 40GB each.
I love supporting their cause though.
There are other alternatives, I recently saw a really good one but I don’t remember it. Let me look for it and I’ll send it to you as soon as I find it, we use it at work