2026-10-24 03:35 UTC
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@NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2026-10-24 04:25
Immich as recommended by a few others, and there’s also Nextcloud, but keep in mind Nextcloud is a little “heavier” in that it has more functions and features. For example it can be used as a drive, calendar, contacts, and photo alternative. Look into a addin for Nextcloud called memories that I personally like better than the native photo app. I run both immich and Nextcloud, as well as a bunch of other alternatives to Google’s services.
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@NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 2026-10-24 05:07
Immich allows search for text and objects in the photos, using integrated free, local-run small AI models. I haven’t used a memories feature but I believe one may have rolled out in the last update. Honestly, Immich is a free self-host option and is incredibly close to Google Photos. I think if you’re holding out for exactly identical feature parity, though, you may never be satisfied.
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@AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2026-10-24 07:06
100% Immich. Really good UI, and the kinds of quality of life features you don’t normally find in smaller open source apps (auto face tagging, map based on coordinates of photos, built-in non-destructive editor, memories, etc) The memories feature is mostly just “here’s photos/videos you took on this date”, but it doesn’t compile any sort of custom album based on a theme or place or anything like that. Not hard to do so yourself by just going to the map view and zooming into any location though. As for image searching it does have that, and I’ve found it to be shockingly reliable even when I run it on just a Raspberry Pi. (though it can take a while to give you the result of your search if you’re on lower-end hardware like that)