Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Photos?

Photo Gallery Cloud Storage File Sharing

PhotoPrism.app Landing Page
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PhotoPrism.app

PhotoPrism® is an AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web. It makes use of the latest technologies to tag and find pictures automatically without getting in your way. You can run it at home, on a private server, or in the cloud.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
If you're willing to self-host, Photoprism[0] is pretty nice and easy to get up and running. It has the flavor of Google Photos, but it's definitely a step down in UX. One of the features I really love about Google Photos is the ability to jump quickly through time. Like if I'm looking for a photo I took around June 2018, I can get to it in <5 seconds. I didn't realize what a magical feature it is until I tried looking for it with alternatives and found that they all have a lot of scrolling, pausing to load new photos, more scrolling. But I'm impressed with what Photoprism has achieved as a small, donation-funded OSS project, so I'm hoping to see them grow. [0] https://photoprism.app.

#Open Source #Photo Organization #Automated Tagging 153 social mentions
Nextcloud Landing Page
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Nextcloud

With Nextcloud enterprises host their own secure cloud solution for storage, collaboration & communication from any device, anywhere.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Nextcloud! I can't praise and recommend them enough! https://nextcloud.com/ You can self-host it, it's license is ASGI, so it's never going away, and it has an app for photos: https://github.com/nextcloud/photos and another one where you can put all your photos on a map:.

#Cloud Storage #File Sharing #Encrypted Cloud Storage 283 social mentions
Piwigo.org Landing Page
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Piwigo.org

Manage your photo collection with Piwigo. Piwigo is open source photo gallery software for the web. Designed for organisations, teams and individuals.
Pricing:
- Open Source
My father started his self-hosting journey with a similar need. He went with Piwigo (https://piwigo.org/) that seems to fit his requirements. Not sure I would personally pick that (PHP, documentation misaligned with my concerns...), but it may match others' criteria.

#Photo Gallery #Photos & Graphics #Web Development Tools 26 social mentions
Ownphotos Landing Page

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Ownphotos

Self hosted alternative to Google Photos . Contribute to hooram/ownphotos development by creating an account on GitHub.

#Photo Gallery #Open Source #Social Network
Cryptee Landing Page
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Cryptee

Cryptee is a safety and privacy focused, encrypted and cross-platform personal data storage service. You can write personal documents, notes, journals, store photos and all sorts of other files.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- €3.0 / Monthly (10GB)
#Photos #Note Taking #Cloud Storage 79 social mentions
Koken.me Landing Page

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Koken.me

Koken is a free web site publishing system developed for photographers, designers, artists and...

#CMS #Photo Gallery #Website Builder 4 social mentions
Syncthing Landing Page
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Syncthing

Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and...
Pricing:
- Open Source
Different tool, but this forum post lists some options: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/automatic-phone-uploads/20/3 Some of the tools recommend are: https://syncthing.net/ https://www.resilio.com/ https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html.

#Cloud Storage #File Sharing #File Sharing And Backup 826 social mentions
picc.io Landing Page

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picc.io

NOTE: picc.io has been discontinued.

Picc.io is a Image hosting site for sharing images and photos. A very simple clean alternative to Imgur. Picc.io allows you to sent shorten url links to single photos, which make it ideal for posting image links inside of comments.

I like to use https://picc.io for sharing images as a link.

#Photos & Graphics #File Sharing #File Management 11 social mentions