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Are there any full featured alternatives to PhotoPrism? I'd be happy to support their devs but charging almost $80 a year for basic features like having more than one user is kind of absurd. At that cost I'd rather just pay for the extra dirt cheap storage from Google and keep things there.

That said, I'd really love to continue moving everything I can away from the big G and photos is a sticking point because I have a wife and child and other family members who depend on it.

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[–] gofireworks 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Check out Immich, it’s nearly a full google photos replacement

https://github.com/immich-app/immich

[–] quent1500 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But in mind that Immich is not stable for now ! It is not un common to deal with broken database or lost data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I'm going to run it alongside Google Photos until I feel comfortable pulling the plug. I'll migrate my wife's data then. I'm ok with waiting.

[–] gofireworks 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It’s been quite stable for me. I have nearly 35,000 photos/videos saved and haven’t had a single issue

[–] quent1500 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah me too but it happens. Dealing with family pictures playing safe is not a crazy thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@gofireworks, @shortcake, and @JeremyT. Thank you all for the suggestion of Immich. This looks like the one. It looks like it's only been around since early last year which would explain why I didn't find it last time I looked for a replacement.

[–] kaktus 3 points 2 years ago

Immich works great, even though it is still under heavy development. Gets updated almost weekly with new features and improvements.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've been running an instance of immich alongside photoprism for a few weeks and liking it. The photo syncing feature on android seems to be reliable, which I can't say for photosync.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Immich. Google photos replacement. Their big thing is being a backup solution but I really like the sorting, sharing and more.

[–] p5f20w18k 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

+1

Started using a few weeks ago, keeping auto upload to nextcloud as well just in case

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wise idea given it's beta nature. I personally still have Google backup too. Can't wait for stable release so I can migrate away completely

[–] p5f20w18k 1 points 2 years ago

I'm uploading all my nextcloud and docker appdata to google drive, gets encrypted on the way though. Would be lost if I lost all that data

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm liking nextcloud memories.

I'm still in testing phase. At the moment i am doing the traditional way. Manual sorting (assisted by digicam), synced on various pc via syncthing, then put a simple gallery via pigallery2.

But i like the idea of an automatic gallery where everyone in the family can automatically upload a la google photos. Immich can do that, but looks resource intensive.

Because I already have a nextcloud install, I enabled "nextcloud memories" and looks fine. I copied 5% of my gallery for testing and looks great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm all in on Owncloud for now. But Immich looks like it's exactly what I'm looking for!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Infinite scale?

[–] saddlebag 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This was asked about a month ago on reddit. Obviously there are excellent alternatives, I personally use Immich and Nextcloud. If you are certain that you want Photoprism but don't want to pay, then you can just set PHOTOPRISM_SPONSOR: "true" in the deployment environment variables and it should unlock everything.

[–] Miimikko 2 points 2 years ago

Is there any repercussions to be expected if you use that without really being a sponsor?

Other than that not being ethical and feeling bad about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for that. I've got Immich deployed and it's already parsed my entire library thanks to some heaving lifting from my GPU. I think I like it and will just stay with it.

[–] Duckman 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought that stopped working when they instituted the new system where you have to link your account

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I was able to get the cuda docker container working along the main docker container. It processed 19,000 photos in one night while I slept. I just wish it did gpu transcoding.

https://github.com/imagegenius/docker-immich

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I use Nextcloud photos. It is far from perfect but it is OK. I hate lack of good Mobile App.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] nexusband 2 points 2 years ago

I'm liking pydio very much these days.

[–] HybridSarcasm 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I’m curious: what’s the use case for multiple users? Seems like PhotoPrism is a fancy photo gallery. Not sure how multiple users is needed for that.

What are the other basic features that aren’t available for free?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

giving access to family, a shared gallery + private ones. It's the bare minimum. You know otherwise mom is calling "ah i lost my phone" - and the last backup was done in 2012 saved on some cheap DVDs with disc rot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You could also setup syncthing and backup the peer directory you know :).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If ou have a family and don't want to share the admin password with everyone?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

In my case should be for my family. To separate my photos from my daughter's photos

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Totally get ya, but do consider the value you get out of the project out of the whole rather than only what you get for the 80/yr. It goes to supporting the photoprism devs and helping them make ends meet while developing and supporting a project full time.

Having said that, Immich is great! Not 'stable' yet, but they're making leaps all the time.

[–] Notmythrowaway6991 1 points 2 years ago

I've been meaning to setup nextcloud + nextcloud memories. Immich is tempting and I've played with it but having all files in one place instead of separate services is more enticing

[–] jogai_san 1 points 2 years ago
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