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.deEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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?

      • Verbose2812@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • kenbw2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

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

  • huskypenguin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • wolre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.comEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • u_tamtam@programming.devEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    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).

    • ffhein@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • ffhein@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • u_tamtam@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            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 :)

    • greatley@ani.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

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

  • biscuit@lemdro.idEnglish
    71·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • conrad82@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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 🫣

  • notleigh@aussie.zoneEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    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.
      • marvin@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Did the same in python. Ages ago. And again in python half a decade ago. And again in python a few months ago.

  • DunkinCoder@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Currently in the middle of a cutover between Flickr/Dropbox/iCloud mess to Photoprism. Immich, I’ll keep in a test instance with a decent chunk of duplicate files but I’m not too keen on how it, along with others, disregards your file structure.