I’m starting my degoogling journey (mostly looking into the various options at hand) and I was wondering what hood alternatives to Goohle Photos is there? I’m specifically wondering about a service that would double both as a cloud storage and a gallery with a timeline and such. But currently it’s only cloud storage backup (or Instagtam-likes, which is bot something I want) as far as I can tell?
Immich is the best I’ve found. Has native mobile apps that can auto upload pics/videos and you can use their CLI utility to bulk import large libraries if you want. Very active development too.
Edit: sorry, didn’t see the cloud storage requirement. Immich is purely a photo hosting/upload service.
If you’re tech savvy you can run Immich in the cloud though. Will cost a bit but probably not more than something like Onedrive will.
Nextcloud (either self-hosted, or via a provider) offers a photo gallery option.
Nextcloud is a service that ticks most if those boxes (if not all). You can self host if that’s your thing or pay for a hosted service.
Les Pas can act as a gallery for it without the need for main Nextcloud app. It’s available on F-Droid
I’ve been enjoying Jottacloud. It’s got a timeline, ai search, a sync folder (for auto syncing files to all your devices), and automatic backup from your camera roll.
I also liked cryp.ee when I tested it but it can’t do automatic backup.
I use immich, it works the best out of anything I’ve tried (including nextcloud which randomly didn’t upload pictures for some reason)
If you don’t wanna self host it, there are some services which will host it (and other projects) for you (the only one I can remember is pikapods.com, never used them though)
Synology photos is exactly that, comes with synology nas.
Signup to filen. It has got autoupload of photos and 20GB initial free storage
Probably no better than google privacy wise etc but Amazon photos covers all of your bases, and is included as part of the prime subscription. So if you are a prime member you may already have a “free” alternative. There is no storage limit for regular photos either.
It’s actually the reason I became a prime member here in Japan, because just for the photo storage it was much cheaper than other cloud options like apple etc.
I saw this but not feeling much better about having it stored on Amazon. Good tip though!
Amazon Photos daily memories is terrible though. With Google Photos, I get photos, slideshows, and others every day, usually with photos from several years. On Amazon Photos, I’m lucky if I get half a dozen plain photos in a day, usually from the same set.
