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Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos (alternativeto.net)

submitted 7 months ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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[–] suzune@ani.social 41 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I tried Photoprism, Ente and Immich.

Immich is by far the best. It has got an app that really does what it should do, has an AI that actually works and is easy to host and to update.

[–] DancingTable@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Last I tried Immich its background upload was horrible.

Some of that is definitely iOS being bad, but other apps at least semi-worked when Immich didn’t at all.

I might try it again, though. See if it’s improved.

[–] ohshittheyknow@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 7 months ago

They mentioned "better background backups" as a enhancement as since version 1.141.1 which was released on 9/8/2025. Personally I just started testing it after v2.0 so I'm not sure how bad it was previously but have not seen any significant issues with backup.

[–] suzune@ani.social 1 points 7 months ago

I honestly have no idea if the iOS app works properly.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

When I used iOS, background upload seemed to work okay. On both iOS and Android, though, I occasionally go into the app to manually backup since both like to kill background processes to save on battery life.