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.
Thanks for the detailed writeup, I think I understood it properly now!
Crazy that you have to pay for PhotoPrism to have more users!
Maybe they add these features you want to Immich? Given that it’s still in development.
Yeah the multiuser thing is a big deal for me now. Photoprism is okay but just the fact that there’s a paid version irks me.
How does it store images? Does it make one huge pile and sort it by metadata and external db magic?
Pretty much however you want. You can let it import and sort by a folder logic of your design or can make it read an already existing library without immich modifying the structure.
Yes. But it allows to define a custom storage layout based on user date time filename typ and album.
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.
Immich is agpl https://immich.app/blog/2024/immich-core-team-goes-fulltime/
Semantic/licensing quibbles aside, these futo guys seem pretty based (affectionate). They even use the word “normies” in their goals/value statement.
Seriously tho, with power/wealth as lopsided as it is in america, we really need capitalist class traitors to get anything done and I’m glad people like this exist
Never heard of Immich, but it looks absolutely amazing.
