Immich is literally it
- self hosted
- completely free
- multiple users
The GUI is very similar to gphotos. It also has face recognition.
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2023
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i second immich
Immich. Its Great and fast
Photoprism works really well but there's no multiuser support. Although you could run multiple dockers I guess. Immich has multi user support and it's pretty good, it has face recognition too. And it has an app too. As far as payment goes you can patreon support photoprism, help them out and it comes out cheaper than google photos.
I've not found a good alternative and I'm curious to see what is suggested.
What I'm doing for now:
- backing up all my photos in original quality to my NAS
- backing up all my photos in space saver quality to Google photos
You can store quite a lot with the free 15GB. And if you need more, create a new account for your wife, add it as a partner and all photos will show up as if they were on the same account.
I don't know how many wives Google allows, I've only tried one so far. But if they allow polygamy, you can get a new wife whenever you run out of storage.
TL;DR tell your wife the only way to return to Google photos is for you to get more wives.
Not sure if this fits what you guys look for, but Synology Photos is brilliant. Self hosted yes, reliables yes, features & apps yes, expensive also yes.
Happy wife, happy life. Get Google photos, it's ease of use and feature set is not comparable to self-hosted solutions unfortunately. I use nextcloud+memories and photoprism in the past, they work fine but Google photos is better.
Agreed. Google photos is great in a lot of ways. I self host a lot of things but still choose Google photos because it's great at what it does.
I have backups to switch at a moments notice but the trick is to make your life easier, reliable and consistent.
How do you keep a simple workflow to manage the copies between Google and your own? I assume pictures are going to Google first, then you download them?
Not sophisticated. Reminder once a month to see how many photos I took. If it's all random dog photos or pictures of things to remember the I ignore it. If it's quality life events then I just download the new set and add it to my backup.
I used to get caught up with automation but sometimes it just takes 5 minutes to do something and I'm fine with it.
I store them on NextCloud
I would think, should there be different users who should have different authorizations, I would look at piwigo https://piwigo.org/
If it's the same family and you just want a nice login with archive options, look at lychee https://lychee.electerious.com/
I think both are strong candidates for what you are looking for
It's one thing to switch yourself but if you have family doing it too, especially nontechnical - let them choose their own thing.
Download backups, host them if you want but you need their trust in self hosted solutions when it counts. Photos is not the hill to die in.... in my opinion.
Google Photos selfhosted alternative
Are you fucking kidding me...