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[–] suzune@ani.social 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I tried Photoprism, Ente and Immich.

Immich is by far the best. It has got an app that really does what it should do, has an AI that actually works and is easy to host and to update.

[–] DancingTable@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Last I tried Immich its background upload was horrible.

Some of that is definitely iOS being bad, but other apps at least semi-worked when Immich didn’t at all.

I might try it again, though. See if it’s improved.

[–] ohshittheyknow@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 day ago

They mentioned "better background backups" as a enhancement as since version 1.141.1 which was released on 9/8/2025. Personally I just started testing it after v2.0 so I'm not sure how bad it was previously but have not seen any significant issues with backup.

[–] suzune@ani.social 1 points 1 day ago

I honestly have no idea if the iOS app works properly.

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Do you conbect to your immich instance remotely when not home or just dump the photos once home?

[–] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 16 hours ago

Tailscale with a subnet router running for my home network makes it so that I can just connect to 192.168.50.57 from wherever I like.

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I use nextcloud as a general drive, where I also upload photos automatically. Then I just mount the images folder in my immich container.

[–] suzune@ani.social 4 points 1 day ago

I've got Wireguard running. As soon I am on wifi, my phone uploads the new pictures.