Being able to make lightweight edits to photos is going to be very nice.
Its amazing how fast it's developing, hard to believe it's only two years old, yet it seems like yesterday at the same time.
Fantastic devs!
Oh awesome, its nice to know that immich will add photo editing soon!
How does Immich compare to something like PhotoPrism or Piwigo?
Piwigo is more like a shared gallery. Users create album/folders and upload individual photos, which other users can access. Piwigo has poor support for videos and no support for Live Photos.
Photoprism has only a single user for the free tier. It supports Live Photos and videos, and individual photo uploads. It does facial recognition tagging.
Immich supports video/Live Photos, facial recognition, and has multiple users, but it expects a full backup/synchronization (not individual photos). Sharing between users is manual, not automatic or permissions-based like Piwigo. Each user has access only to their own backups or shared albums.
In summary, I think Piwigo is the simplest to set up and use, but it doesn’t do much beyond photos - it’s a simple shared gallery. Photoprism is good and stable, but you have to pay a subscription for multiple user accounts. Immich is rapidly developing, which means things will break, but also it has the most features. My only issue with Immich is that I don’t want to use it as a backup - only as a “best of” shared gallery. While it’s possible with Immich, I would have to maintain an Immich album on my phone, and sync only that, and I would have to set up shares with other users manually.
Immich has a big financial backer
One feature that I hope that Immich adopts is to allow for external libraries to be displayed in an existing folder structure. There’s no built-in way to do this and requires a script that uses albums as a workaround. A lot of photographers have organised folders by date/event that span years/decades, so it’s not practical to create these manually with albums.
The closest I’ve found is a cron script which does album generation automatically, but it’s not a ‘future proof’ solution since it could stop working at any time.
Memories (Nextcloud), Photoprism, and Photoview can do this.
Photoview looks nice too, I might try that.
Never heard of Immich, but it looks absolutely amazing.
And amazing is is. It has almost completely replaced my use of Google Photos 👍
Ooo similar image detection already implemented! Been wondering how I manage that!
So, do I need a GPU to use facial rec. with this?
I have a NAS with a low powered CPU, but I don't care if it takes weeks to analyse - we don't take loads of photos.
No, I do all the facial stuff on my little n305. Depends on size of photos and how many. I have about 9k and it took a few hours to churn through.
I passed my igpu through and honestly found almost no speed benefit after the initial import. So i removed it.
Yeah I am looking forward to the stable release.
What happened to the old logo?
Last time that I checked the Repo it was different.
Redesigned. If i have to guess: because it was too much. Too many details, too small.
Needs private albums for porn and ill use it.
Wow.
Now I know there's an app for everything...
Better background backups
Rework background backups to be more reliable
Hilarious for a system which main point / feature is photo backup
Please stop breaking things every other release
Please read the warning at the top of their page:
⚠️ The project is under very active development. Expect bugs and changes. Do not use it as the only way to store your photos and videos!
If you don't like these breaking changes, this might not be the right software for you (for now).
I'd say Innovation is more important than stopping with breaking changes
This is a roadmap to the stable release. Things can't be expected to never break before the stable release.
