1y ago

Looks like finaly there is a decent alternative to Google Photos

When I was looking to replace my google tools, I couldn't find an easy to to alternative Google Photos. Things that were suggested like immich or Synology or ente required some level of technical know how or dedicated hardware. I ended up buying a Synology drive but I have issues with loading images/videos (it's extremely slow).

Today I stumbled upon https://stingle.org/

I haven't used it yet, but it looks like it might be a good option for anyone wanting to degooglify, but without all the extra fuffing around.

It also has a F-Droid distro!

Pricing starts at 1gb for free or 100gb for three bucks

If anyone get's a chance, let me know if it's really that good.

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Immich is the only viable alternative, IMO.
- Problem is, self hosted solutions require an investment into dedicated software. And even still, it doesn't work that well. As I said, my Synology Photos will load photos after a while, but videos is a whole different story. And it's not the internet connection in my case
  
  Typically the point of de-googling is to get independent. If you just go to another SaaS solution, you trade one dependency for another dependency. They can lock you out from one day to the next, increase their prices, change their terms of service, etc.
  Also if one of the reasons to turn your back to Google is that they should no longer have access to your data, then look up what the SaaS provider you are turning to is hosting with. Chances are high they are using Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. So your data still ends up on machines of the big three.
  
  I recently tried pikapods (https://www.pikapods.com/), they provide a pretty easy and stable way to run software like immich. The prices are reasonable as well, I’d say.
- Is it FOSS? What’s the MIT license?
  
  It's as FOSS as it can be. MIT is one of the most liberal licenses.

Ente is another option that I have been using for almost 2 years now. It's end-to-end encrypted and open source with an app on F-Droid. There have been a lot of updates over the last year that have significantly improved the experience using the app.
- Same. Quality app. Lots of constant improvements. Don't miss google photos at all.

Self hosted nextcloud and any gallery app (e.g. default gallery app from grapheneos) works fine for me. The nextcloud app allows syncing of your fotos.

Selfhost and use https://syncthing.net/

I tried to get the self host option stood up but couldn't get it to work. The company is new enough that I'm not comfortable letting them host it at the moment. So I'm running Immich and it's been great.

Is there any information on the company? I found a brief LinkedIn but nothing else: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stingle

I never thought about it this way (what's under the hood).
Might be better than giving unencrypted data directly to Google but its still not a perfect solution

Shingle and ente are great alternative providers
If you want to selfhost
Librephotos serverside with uhuruphotos on android
Or
Photoprism serverside with photoprism android client
Or both
Runs smooth on a raspberry pi
Both actually better than google photos in some ways

Wow I'm really interested in this as well, hope is as good as it's looks! Thank you!

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