In regards to Ente being US based, this is mainly due to EU being difficult to establish a company in a country where you dont have a physical presence.
The team behind Ente are international and work from everywhere around the world. They initially did try to make a European company but would have to make some workarounds to achieve this
Setting up a company in the US was more straightforward
I think I’m Estonia you can easily get an “E-Citizenship”
Interesting! Maybe this is one of the workarounds that they did not wish to use?
The point is, that they apparently have considered EU as a base for their company, but picked USA because it was more straightforward to set it up there.
For me, I am mostly concerned for my data. I trust that if they get any pressure from the USA to access their data and files, that they can relatively easily unroot the company and move it somewhere else as they are not physically bound to the country.
Immich is actually totally free to self-host. The just added a button to show whether you’re a supporter or not for a once off fee
This is the first version, so I expect there to be a few mistakes. Please flag and provide feedback if you notice any improvements.
Immich doesn’t have any fees, just optional donations
I completely misread their pricing page. I see that is more about donations now. Will correct this - thanks!
Immich has a version of memories, though maybe you have it defined differently?
It could be that I am using a different definition, and hope I am wrong in this, as even without this feature, Immich is one of the best options available.
That said, I am referring to this feature: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/2836
If it has something similar, then I’ll happily consider it. To me, this is one of the more advanced (and well-liked) features of a photo app, which is why I have it there to help differentiate.
What does their current Memories feature do?
Idk about the others, but I gotta say that Recognize, what Nextcloud uses for facial and object recognition, is god awful. You’d be lucky if it recognised and grouped 50% of the faces correctly.
Problem is just that Google Photos pricing is way better. Ente is almost twice as expensive. 200 GB for 5 euro per month versus ~2.8 euro per month.
For me, the 2,20 difference was worth it, to leave google.
Where is piwigo ? https://piwigo.org/
( I’m biased I work for them )
Always great connecting with the people behind the product! Piwigo almost made it to the diagram (it is featured below).
The only reason it didn’t was that it felt more like a tool for professionals than the average user looking to manage/view their photos.
Oh I missed it, sorry !
It’s true it’s more geared toward exposing the album. Most of our clients are association, regional administration or photograpah so it make sense it didn’t make the list. The strengh of piwigo lies in the rich plugin ecosystem.
I don’t directly work on piwigo itself but I’m behind the ( soon to be released ) official docker image and I maintain the Android app.
€29 pr month, for 10gb when ente has a free plan with 50gb?
I may be missing something but that is a pretty steep price!
I think Proton Drive have something called “Albums” now?
This post makes it sound like “photo management” is a need everyone has. I just use folders and sub-folders.
Why do you even post, then? Some of us have friends and loved ones, pets and lives - moments in time we’d like to preserve and archive and revisit, not just random meme junk knocking about in “asdasdasd - Copy (1)”
