Comment by stavros
1 day ago
Does Photos have features you use that Immich doesn't? I've switched to the latter fully and love it (though I have an Android).
1 day ago
Does Photos have features you use that Immich doesn't? I've switched to the latter fully and love it (though I have an Android).
How much work is it to maintain an Immich instance? I'm trying to keep my digital setup lean, but I can't find a simple way to get photos off my iPhone and onto my home server. One way synchronization is my only goal. Extra features are not desired.
If all you want is a 1-way sync from phone to server, then just go with PhotoSync. You can set up a simple SFTP connection so you don't even need anything on the server.
Immich is great if you want to be able to delete things from your phone to save space and still have access to all your content served from Immich on your server though.
This seems a lot better, thanks for the suggestion.
I change a line in the Dockerfile to upgrade it every few months, that's it. Otherwise it's zero.
Music and AI features are still lagging in Immich, and I can understand why. Immich machine learning is not flushed out yet. If Immich has plans for creating marketplace for extensibility like plugins, in the current era of Claude code, I am sure we will end up with many options or features.
Music? Like a music library? Wouldn't Subsonic be miles better for that?
Like Memories feature in Apple which uses media to make short form video but also picks and plays music with them. We love those videos. Enabling feature like that involves understanding metadata and media and music.
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Encryption at rest. If someone breaks into my house and steals my server I'd rather they not be able to get data. I can do LUKS but I really want the data to only ever be decrypted client side.