Photos

Google Photos used to be the easy answer: unlimited storage, decent search, an app that just worked. That deal is gone, storage now counts against your Google One quota, prices have crept up, and the underlying trade was always the same one every free cloud photo service makes: your entire photo library, including the ones you’d rather not have scanned by an ad-tech company’s ML pipeline, lives on someone else’s servers under someone else’s terms. Immich and PhotoPrism are the two projects that have actually closed the gap between “self-hosted” and “something you’d trust with 15 years of family photos.” Picking between them comes down to a few real differences, not just which one has a nicer logo. ...