Immich
Your own Google Photos: phone backup, face search and shared albums on your own machine
immich-app/immich117kstars on GitHubUpdated todayAGPL-3.0 licence
Where it can help
People move to it to stop paying for cloud storage or to keep family photos private, and they praise how close it feels to Google Photos. Others point out you may not save money once you buy the hardware.
Based on linked project documentation and community discussion. We have not verified this workflow through a hands-on test.
Families with lots of photos and someone at home who is happy to run a small home server
What people say
“Migrated 700GB of photos from Google to local Immich. The whole family uses it and we’re happy to be supporting the project!”
“One of the coolest things I've discovered with Immich is you can share an album link with a group of friends and they can all upload and download photos to/from that album without creating an account.”
“Immich seems way too complex for what I need. Redis, Postgres and Docker just to look at your photos? Eugh”
Quoted word for word from public posts. Collected Oct 8, 2026.
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