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Immich vs Ente ? (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by warmaster@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Chosing the right photo app for my family

So, Immich vs Ente, this is my last piece of the selfhosted puzzle. Please help me make an informed decision:

Immich

on the plus side, it seems to have more features and it has a gazillion integrations with other selfhosted software. Downside: breaking changes are fairly common AFAIK.

Ente

looks like the opposite, more mature, scoped and less integrated.

Am I reading this right? Am I missing something?

Edit: Thanks everyone, I'm going with immich!

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[–] Dojan@pawb.social 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I use Ente, but it’s purely because I want my images backed up in the cloud, but I don’t want the server provider to be able to mess around with them. Hence the e2ee being important to me.

I love Ente, I think it’s a great project, but for self-hosting, immich seems like the best choice to me.

[–] Papierkorb@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just a FYI, when using a tool like rclone to backup data to some cloud, it can also encrypt the files for you when pushing data, and decrypt when pulling data. Of course, the files will still be unencrypted at rest.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That's very neat! It doesn't really work for my Ente use-case, but definitely good to know!

It wasn't rsync that started breaking because of some Claude changes, right?

[–] bookmeat@fedinsfw.app 2 points 3 days ago

Kind of. Claude helped the developer find lots of bugs. He decided to start making major changes to fix these bugs. Major changes often break things.

[–] Papierkorb@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

I think it was rsync indeed. Afaik rclone and rsync are different developers, despite the name

[–] rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 3 days ago

rsync and rclone are two different projects