Comment by ant6n
5 years ago
Very interested in this. She questions:
How does one migrate to this from Google photos?
How does one share across the family?
Is it possible to have a local backup (e.g. on my desktop) in case something goes wrong?
What are plans for features beyond just storing photos (categorizing, tagging, labelling, albums, comments/notes, geotags, stories, etc.)?
What's the pricing?
> How does one migrate to this from Google photos?
You can export your data from takeout.google.com, and drag and drop the output folder into web.ente.io.
> How does one share across the family?
Currently we don't have family plans yet. Existing customers are sharing the same account with their partners. This is on our roadmap and we will ship it soon.
> Is it possible to have a local backup?
Our desktop app[1] has an option to sync your uploaded data to a local disk drive.
> categorizing, tagging, labelling, albums, comments/notes, geotags, stories.
We already have albums and stories. All the other features you mentioned apart from "comments/notes" were already on our roadmap. I've just added "comments/notes" too to it[2].
> What's the pricing?
https://ente.io/#pricing
[1]: https://github.com/ente-io/bhari-frame/releases/latest
[2]: https://roadmap.ente.io/ability-to-add-commentsnotes-to-a-ph...
Thanks for the detailed responses! Some more questions:
a) I note the pricing is somewhat higher than Google/Dropbox, which is fair. But is there a way to compress the media (esp. videos) before uploading it to conserve some storage? (I wish when Google still had unlimited 'high quality', it was possible to store photos in original and video in hi quality).
b) is there a way to detect duplicate photos, including of lesser quality, and only store the higher quality version? (E.g. photo comes from original device but also in a WhatsApp image folder because it was shared).
c) assuming search is on the roadmap based on feature detection, are there ways to find photos based on date/uploading device/camera/geolocation?
All the features you requested for are already on our roadmap. :)
a) https://roadmap.ente.io/option-to-compress-photos-to-use-les...
b) https://roadmap.ente.io/deduplicate-files-p-1165/
c) https://roadmap.ente.io/search-by-metadata-and-exif-p-2487/
We will be shipping all of them.