Immich Reviews and Details

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• Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive

  Self-host your data. I like Immich for personal photos: https://immich.app. And VisualDrive Server in corporate environment as a self-hosted replacement for cloud-based OneDrive: https://www.axiorema.com/visualdrive-server/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• Self-Host Immich on a VPS: Your Own Private Google Photos

  TL;DR: Immich is an open-source, self-hosted photo and video platform that genuinely replaces Google Photos — phone auto-backup, AI face and object search, albums, timeline, the lot. This guide runs it with Docker on a VPS: plan your storage, bring up the official Compose stack, put it behind SSL with a large upload limit, connect the mobile app, turn on machine-learning search, and — the part most guides skip —... - Source: dev.to / 25 days ago

• Want your images back? Sure... That'll be $5!

  > I don't want to self-host my photos, too much management. I dunno https://immich.app is pretty painless IME. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Ask HN: Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible?

  Regarding your request for 1, have you looked into Immich [1]? If that's too much, I may recommend bewCloud [2] (I've created it almost 3 years ago, still going well), though it's really just serving the files, so search would have to match the file name. [1]: https://immich.app [2]: https://bewcloud.com. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• How I Digitized Years of Home Videos and Photos with Immich

  The answer for the primary library turned out to be Immich, a self-hosted Google Photos alternative, running on a Synology NAS. I chose a two-bay Synology with 6TB of usable storage (two drives configured as a mirror, so a single drive failure doesn't cost me anything) and bumped the RAM to 16GB, which left plenty of headroom for Immich's machine-learning and thumbnail-generation workloads. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Photo Management

  Immich is the best self-hosted photo management app for most people. It is the closest thing to a self-hosted Google Photos that exists. Native iOS and Android apps with automatic background upload, CLIP-based smart search (search "dog on beach" and it works), facial recognition with person grouping, a map view, shared albums, partner sharing, and a fast, polished web UI. With 90,000+ GitHub stars, it is one of... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• iCloud Photos Downloader

  Immich (self hosted photos app, https://immich.app/) "stacks" live photos with their videos. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• iCloud Photos Downloader

  This will let you download all of your photos that already exist on iCloud Photos. Going forward, you’d want to set up some other way to sync photos you take from your phone to your other devices. I can personally recommend Synology Photos for simplicity[1], or Immich[2] for an open-source (and in my opinion, slightly better) alternative you can run on any hardware, if you’d like to set up an always-on NAS. These... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Are Apple Gift Cards Safe to Redeem?

  Immich. https://immich.app/ They have their issues, but they are actively working on it. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help

  I self host an Immich [1] instance to backup photos on my iPhone. It’s OSS and has a level of polish I’ve rarely seen in free software. Really, it’s shockingly good. The iOS app whisks my photo off to my home server several times per day. What I’m not sure about is how to backup things like iMessages, Notes, and my Contacts. Every time I’ve looked, it appears the only options are random GitHub scripts that have... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Review for Synology DiskStation DS925+: A feature-packed NAS

  Borg Backup - I use it to automatically back up my main hosted Docker services. I have publicly hosted instances of Immich, and Paperless-NGX using Docker containers. I periodically make a backup of their data folder using Borg and store it in a Borg repo. The advantage of storing the backups in a Borg repo is that it is a deduplicating archival program. So no matter how many backups you make, it will not take any... - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

  Not affiliated, but Immich (https://immich.app/) is a great self-hosted alternative to Google Photos. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Ask HN: Is there no way to incrementally backup from Google photos?

  Does anyone use immich?[0]. Can it be used alongside Google photos so as pictures are taken they're backed up to both services? [0] https://immich.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Apple Photos App Corrupts Images

  It supports wireless upload to the server, everything is stored locally and it has some neat additional features. https://immich.app/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• 'Doglabbing' ngrok: Eyes-only photo sharing with immich and OIDC

  After doing some research, I came across the perfect solution: immich! - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• The Future Is Not Self-Hosted

  There's Immich https://immich.app/ and https://ente.io/ which are both E2E encrypted and not locked to any ecosystem (besides, e.g. Apple only has E2E encryption when you have Advanced Data Protection enabled, and even then not on shared albums). So those apps are strictly an improvement (and I use them). I also do not have Facebook/Instagram/whatever else people are using that don't care about their own or... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?

  I think Immich checks a lot of these https://immich.app/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Show HN: A pure WebGL image editor with filters, crop and perspective correction

  Thanks. It started as a proof of concept for a custom reactivity engine (based on signals and tagged template literals). But while at it I realised I needed something quick and easy for my needs. I already have a prototype for a self-hosted photogallery that integrates this editor (something like https://immich.app to give you an idea). But it's still to early to share. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative

  Immich is pretty good for sharing photos. https://immich.app/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Scoping a Local-First Image Archive

  Interesting why nobody mentioned https://immich.app/ yet? - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)

  I highly suggest Immich [1], it's an open-source and self-host alternative for Google Photos. It's still under very active development, but I think it's the best out there. [1] https://immich.app/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago