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Do you know an alternative to Google Photos for local image search? (kbin.social)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for a Google Photos search replacement in local, preferable FOSS.
Does anyone know one?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Immich is a really good self hosted option

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Louis Rossman affiliated group FUTO is pitching in to support development of Immich which hopefully will iron out bugs it currently may have.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

this is the way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

This is really the only answer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Thanks, I will try it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Synology Photos has a search function. It's not as good as google's though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Unfortunately not FOSS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Not really local but selfhosted: Nextcloud + memories

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I think Mylio does this, even in its free version. I don't think it's FOSS though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Photoprism is working great for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Immich. https://immich.app/

AGPL, self-hosted, high feature parity with GPhotos. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/

SpaceInvader One channel on YT has several guides on installing the server on UnRaid and migrating your photo library from Google Photos. https://youtu.be/krAZcUIP3YE and https://youtu.be/LtNWxxM5Mzg

Louis Rossmann recently brought a lot of attention to it by offering the developers a grant via his FUTO org. https://youtu.be/uyTPqxgqgjU

Immich has excellent face detection, as well as search capabilities built-in that can be assisted with locally or remote run ML. https://immich.app/docs/guides/remote-machine-learning/

I've been running it for a couple of months. It's under active development, but I personally feel that it's stable and at a good enough place to be a full replacement of Google Photos. In fact, I turned off all uploads to Google in their Photos app, and rely on Immich auto-uploading to my server instead. Of course that means having a robust (preferably off-site) backup and disaster recovery plan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Amazing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Both Immich and PhotoPrism are great, personally I prefer Immich because it has official mobile apps. PhotoPrism only has an unofficial Gallery app for Android, but requires you to use a proprietary app called PhotoSync to actually synchronize your photos.