Eugen Pirogoff
Any opinions on https://ente.com vs https://immich.app ?
Ente Photos: Store and share your photos with absolute privacy

Ente Photos is the private, secure photo storage app with end-to-end encryption. Cross-platform, open source, and self-hostable. Start with 10GB free.

ente
Mar 28 at 10:14amWeb
Show threadFrederik Braun �Mar 28
@eugenpirogoff did you see https://alexandmanu.com/blog/immich-vs-ente-photos/?
immich vs ente photos - the photo backup showdown

two self-hosted photo apps walk into a bar

alex and manu
Show threadFrederik Braun �Mar 28
@eugenpirogoff my take: if you don’t need encryption (because you self host at home), use immich.
Show threadFrederik Braun �Mar 28
@eugenpirogoff … and @zekjur had a good tutorial including tips on how to speed up the initial import https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-11-29-self-hosting-photos-with-immich/
Self-hosting my photos with Immich

For every cloud service I use, I want to have a local copy of my data for backup purposes and independence. Unfortunately, the gphotos-sync tool stopped working in March 2025 when Google restricted the OAuth scopes, so I needed an alternative for my existing Google Photos setup. In this post, I describe how I have set up Immich, a self-hostable photo manager.

Michael Stapelberg
Show threadMarcelMar 28
@eugenpirogoff Kinda depends how you want to use it.
My biggest pro of Immich: You can point it to an external readonly folder, and it imports all photos without duplicating them. So it can be a nice viewer for your existing library.