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5mo ago

Review of Ente Photos, A Private Google And iCloud Photos Alternative

jwestall.com Jacob Westall Review of Ente Photos, A Private Google And iCloud Photos Alternative

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Thank you for finding and reviewing any sort of Google Photos alternative. I'd like to de-Google and this is one of the pieces.

You can selfhost it. Good. I thought immich was the only option, but maybe I’ll consider this, too.
- There's also PhotoPrism.
  
  PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App
  Isn’t it the kind of software that most people here don’t like?
  
  I use it but not having a native app is a downer
- Immich requires Docker?? 🙄
  
  Is that bad?
- You can selfhost it.
  docker compose
  Pass.
  
  Why do you avoid docker? It’s cleaner than installing on your machine directly.

Pretty short and lacking of details to be considered a proper review, IMO. It doesn't show any UX, go over all the functionality, etc. Good to see that it's fully open sourced and E2EE though.
I've been thinking recently about a proton drive subscription. I'm still leaving towards that, but I'll look into this too
- I can understand why you feel that. I'll go back and add more to it.
- Just a warning: the photo part of proton drive is incredibly basic to be generous and even that doesn't seem to work smoothly (on android). Just to handpick 2 very annoying things aside from lack of features: opening a picture that's locally on your phone takes 1-2 seconds, and when you back out it has to refresh the gallery view every time, which also takes 1-2 seconds - incredibly annoying while looking for the correct picture.
  I use it as a second type of backup for my photos, but I definitely couldn't live with the UX the app provides. IMO the drive part in general is very lacking.
  I'm still happy with my proton subscription for mail and VPN, but I'd suggest you trial the drive part before committing to it (unless you already know it's ok for your needs, in which case great!).

Is this a review or advertising?
- I'm not paid at all. This was just my thoughts about the service. I'm going to add more to it since it being short seems to be a common comment.
- The review was short but interesting.
  I feel like we (people on Lemmy) have to be more open to people taking the time to review something, even if it ain’t as good as what you could get from some professionals.
  I ‘m gonna have a look at this to see if it could work with the 2tb of storage I have on my kDrive (by infomaniak) account.

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