Immich

altran1502

About this app

This is a client app for the self-hostable Immich Server (which can be found with the app's source repo). You will need to run/manage the server on your own in order to use the app.

Once set up, this app can be used as photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.

Features:

* Upload and view assets(videos/images).
* Multi-user supported.
* Quick navigation with drag scroll bar.
* Auto Backup.
* Support HEIC/HEIF Backup.
* Extract and display EXIF info.
* Real-time render from multi-device upload event.
* Image Tagging/Classification based on ImageNet dataset
* Object detection based on COCO SSD.
* Search assets based on tags and exif data (lens, make, model, orientation)
* Upload assets from your local computer/server using immich cli tools
* Reverse geocoding from image exif data
* Show asset's location information on map (OpenStreetMap).
* Show curated places on the search page
* Show curated objects on the search page

Ratings and reviews

I've been using it for almost three years now, and it genuinely gets better every update. It's still not 100% perfect, such as Pixel HDR not being present but that's not entirely in their control. Backing up and sharing photos/albums without it being on the "cloud" or requiring an account really is unbeatable. I have it through a reverse proxy so others can access it, but for personal use you can use Tailscale.

I've been moving away from Google and other commercial SaaS apps for years. Many self-hosted apps aren't quite feature-rich or great in terms of user experience, and I've come to accept that as a trade-off. With Immich not only I get virtually unlimited storage, better control and security, but also I think it's even better than Google Photos in so many ways.

Unfortunately once I log in, all I get is a spinning icon and errors about failing to connect to the server (in a Docker container on a PC) on port 443. I'm sure this is something local to my setup, hence still giving a 4-star rating. But I can see numerous other comments online about this problem, with no method for resolving it. It would be nice if some of these apparently-common issues were described, with resolutions, somewhere in the documentation.