I am gradually moving everything to self hosted, and I want to move away from Google Photos. I currently have Nextcloud and sync seems to mostly work, but the default interface seems a bit lacking.

I have tried a few things a while ago (~6 months), but things seem to change quickly.

At the moment, I quite like Nextcloud Memories. It has a similar interface to Google Photos and seems to have relatively quick photo caching, and integrates well with nextcloud. However it doesn’t have a real app and lacks of offline viewing so haven’t fully transistioned yet.

What are you using for your photos and why?

  • homelabberEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    Immich is a very promising app.

    Right now it’s probably the most ambitious in terms of functionality, and a lot of people recommend it as an alternative to Google Photos.

    However since it’s still in Beta, if you use it, be sure to have a backup of those photos somewhere else. Just in case.

    • Shortcake@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      agreed. just got my family to join my instance and add their photos so we can make albums. I ran into issues uploading photos initially, but i guess 8000 photos/videos would tax any system

    • AAR@vlemmy.netEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Immich as well, since they added the ability to share albums with a public link it has all the functionality I needed.

  • Soulplayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    I’m using photoprism. It closest to Synology photos. I use nextcloud to automatically upload the pictures but photoprism to view and share them.

  • 10_dollar_banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    I use Nextcloud Memories and auto-upload from my phone’s photo folders. I love it. I don’t mind the lack of a dedicated app.

  • tkohhh@waveform.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I like Photostructure as a way to browse my photos. It does logical deduping, and automatic organization of your photos (if you want it to). Like some others mentioned in this thread, it’s a very young software, but the developer is very active and transparent about the progress.

    Edit to add link: photostructure.com