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Immich v2.0.0 – First stable release

547 points by Alexvb 1y ago

sagacity 1y ago
Immich is excellent. Especially the beta timeline introduced in the last few Android app releases has leveled Immich up from 'pretty decent' to a genuine replacement for Google Photos for me.
- darkwater 1y ago
  Yep, with the new timeline they fixed my biggest issue with Immich which was the local app won't even show your local photos if there was no connection to the server. Now it works, you just don't get others photos if they are not cached already but that's absolutely expected.
yesnomaybe 1y ago
Congrats and huge thanks. Been a user since over 1 year and it has been more than amazing. Progress was unbelievable. Features I was hoping would exist but never would have thought I would ever see them, like album sync, were added in short time. I've replaced Apple Photos with Immich (from iCloud to self-hosted) and this was one of the important things to transfer. I'm completely de-Appled now and Immich was part of the journey.
- stavros 1y ago
  Out of curiosity, have you bought the "supporter" upgrade?
stavros 1y ago
I use Immich and it's fantastic. All other self-hosted alternatives I I've used have been lacking in one way or another, but Immich is a joy to use. Fast, featureful, easy to set up. I love it so much I gave them $100 to support them. After stopping for years because it was hard to view them easily, I'm finally taking photos again because of Immich.
- Barbing 1y ago
  >After stopping for years Honestly, thank you for making me feel marginally better about the disgustingly lazy, shortsighted, stupid etc. practice of using Google Photos even though they are waiting with bated breath to report me to the cops because I took a picture of my son to send to his doctor[1], before banning my whole account. Migrating to Immich, 2026, hold me to it please lazy me! Oh how’s the search? (Too lazy to label anything so rely on Google Spyware for text & object recognition search when iOS fails. Take photos every day of my life so plenty to trawl through.) [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...
  - stavros 1y ago
    Migrate today! I won't use any third-party photo service, that's too much data. The search is amazing, you search for "cat" and you get back all the cats.
    - j_bum 1y ago
      The search is very impressive. It uses CLIP. So you can search “black cat on blue carpet in the morning” and expect to see a result (if it exists)
      - stavros 1y ago
        Well shit, you're right! https://imgz.org/iiAgNmEJ.jpg https://imgz.org/iiAgNmEJ.jpg I didn't know it was that good! Wow.
  - tecleandor 1y ago
    OMG, I'm so sorry for that. That's terrible.
    - Barbing 1y ago
      oof a hypothetical my bad! ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458560 )
avtolik 1y ago
I haven't heard of this app before, so I looked around their site and docs. I was mildly interested in trying it out until I saw the requirements: "A system with at least 4GB of RAM and 2 CPU cores.", but recommended 6 GB of RAM. Why does an image storage solution needs so much RAM?
- d3vnull 1y ago
  Because it's not just an "image storage solution". A thumb drive would be an image storage solution. If you're indexing, making geo queries, serving over the network, categorize, transcode video and everything else that's needed to create a google photos competitor, you're going to need the hardware to back it up.
- frenkel 1y ago
  Because it wants to recognize objects in you images.
- darkwater 1y ago
  Because it is written in Node, it uses several other softwares (i.e. Postgresql), it runs image/video processing on the fly (transcoding to various formats depending on what you upload and who views), it does face/object recognition running a local model and a few other nice features that yeah, require more power. It's not a static HTML of your photos.
- fifafu 1y ago
  If you just need an image storage solution: no, but then you don't need Immich. If you want the feature Immich offers: yes
- tim-kt 1y ago
  The last time I tried Immich (a year ago or so), my impression was that Immich tries to imitate Google Photos as much as possible. This includes features such as searching by a person or by "cat", which requires some machine learning sophistication, which is done locally (you can also disable these features). This would be my guess, but I'm not entirely sure.
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jaredlt 1y ago
I appreciate the Cursed Knowledge section on their website https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge > Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew
- darkwater 1y ago
  Reading it I see this 50 extra packages are cursed There is a user in the JavaScript community who goes around adding "backwards compatibility" to projects. They do this by adding 50 extra package dependencies to your project, which are maintained by them. which bring to this user: Jordan Harband https://github.com/sponsors/ljharb https://github.com/sponsors/ljharb Does anyone know what they actually mean with that cursed knowledge point? And what's the "backwards compatibility" that Jordan also boasts in his GH profile?
  - pcthrowaway 1y ago
    Seems like this thread answers your question https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37604373 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37604373
  - slaterbug 1y ago
    I don't have much to add myself, but there was a bit of discussion around this back in August that you might be interested in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44831811 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44831811
    - darkwater 1y ago
      Wow! Didn't know Immich's Cursed page had already a dedicated post on HN. I love reading about opensource drama, especially if it's some technology I don't use directly, it's like watching a soap opera.
    - 12345hn6789 1y ago
      This user makes money of off how many downloads their packages receive. https://github.com/A11yance/axobject-query/pull/354#issuecomment-2184124757 https://github.com/A11yance/axobject-query/pull/354#issuecom...
magicalhippo 1y ago
I tried to use the embedding stuff a year ago but the results were lackluster, even with the larger embedding model. With the new multimodal LLMs it seems a better approach might be to get a multimodal LLM to describe the image and list keywords, and then just use the included Meilisearch. That said, I see they list some models I haven't tried, so perhaps time to try again.
cyberax 1y ago
Love it! I bought the supporter package a year ago. One thing that is missing for me is integration with external tools, maybe using a bit more flexible storage structure. And also smart geotagging.
dsego 1y ago
This is the one photo manager that I have my eyes on, I'm just worried about critical bugs, I've seen some issues reported on github with losing data, like this one on the mobile app. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/21936 https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/21936 Not sure what to say, could be a very very rare edge case, but it's not very reassuring.
- InsideOutSanta 1y ago
  I've been using Immich for a year now and haven't lost a single image. Having said that, if you self-host something like this, you're responsible for making backups. The actual photos uploaded to Immich are stored in the file system as regular files. Any other data that Immich can't easily recreate is stored in Postgres, which it automatically dumps once a day. So if you back up your image files and your Postgres dumps, you can always recreate your library.
  - darkest_ruby 1y ago
    Can you pls share the paths of folders to be backed up?, especially the raw image files
    - InsideOutSanta 1y ago
      Immich has documentation here: https://docs.immich.app/administration/backup-and-restore/ https://docs.immich.app/administration/backup-and-restore/ All relevant files are stored in your UPLOAD_LOCATION which you defined in your .env file (if you deployed immich via Docker Compose). The files you absolutely need to back up are in: - UPLOAD_LOCATION/upload ← Contains your images - UPLOAD_LOCATION/backups ← Contains your postgres dumps You should also back up these two directories: - UPLOAD_LOCATION/library - UPLOAD_LOCATION/profile They're not strictly necessary, but it makes it easier to restore the same setup.
      - darkest_ruby 1y ago
        Thank you, that's very useful
teekert 1y ago
Immich is really great, easily now my fav self-hosted app. I used the Immich CLI [0] and later Immich-go [1] to get all my photos in. That was a breeze. I set it to use the folders as albums... And now I have a lot of cleaning up to do, but other than with files and folders, I'm really enjoying the process! A poweruser tip that has helped me a couple of times: Use ZFS (or other snapshotting facilities) to make snapshot before making any changes/updates or doing large imports. It makes the whole thing sort of bullet proof and you can retry if you're not happy with some import flag. Immich had my old Corei3 server making a lot of noise for a couple of days btw! But, it's really good at facial recognition, not so much on finding dogs or something. But still very cool if you don't have to compromise on features as a self-hoster, I'm really grateful and will buy the "support package" (which does not add anything afaik... btw later they will come with a way to do seamless, encrypted off-site backups). [0] https://docs.immich.app/features/command-line-interface/ https://docs.immich.app/features/command-line-interface/ [1] https://github.com/simulot/immich-go https://github.com/simulot/immich-go
- stavros 1y ago
  I just added an external folder and copied all my photos there. Even though Immich's own photos folder is just a directory with dates, Immich is much less picky about what goes in the external folder (and, more importantly, what disappears from it).
rootnod3 1y ago
Really wanna try it out, but will have to see if and how I can build/install it manually on FreeBSD.
drekipus 1y ago
I've been working on a project that had a similar origin story, and gave up because it's so big. I'm glad to see immich strive forward. I wanted to change the "approach" of how I do photos: * When I take a photo, it's usually in the moment. * I want to have the option to "share" that photo directly to a certain album * I'd want my wife / friends to be able to "share" the photo to those albums Almost the same way that "frequent contacts" come up from WhatsApp. Is this possible with the current app? This is what I wanted my app to do, and focus on being more "album" centric, rather than a big-black-hole of all photos I've ever taken.. I might even make my app, but use immich on the backend, and allow users to order a hardcopy / backup of their albums as part of the app.
- illiac786 1y ago
  Isn’t that a simple shared album with upload permissions for everyone? Immich has that, yes.
darkamaul 1y ago
I’ve been running Immich for about two years on Oracle’s free tier (200 GB disk / ARM VM), and it works great. Since I don’t fully trust Oracle for long-term storage, I’ve configured a daily backup to Backblaze. My only minor complaint is that new releases are super frequent and rarely add anything meaningful.
Vinnl 1y ago
I've only been using Immich for a little while, but it's been amazing to see how quickly its development has been going. Hard to imagine they had much technical debt to tackle. > There are still a few items on our roadmap that we want to complete before the year ends such as auto-stacking, and achieving feature parity between the web and mobile app. We also have plans to start work on improved stack support, better sharing, group management, and ownership improvements, as well as many other enhancements. That said, this sounds like they're not going to get the full 2025 plan done: https://immich.app/roadmap https://immich.app/roadmap Which is totally fine of course, I'm still a very happy user. But I'm really looking forward to Workflows! I'd love to automatically share with someone all pictures that include them.
- romainrbr 1y ago
  > But I'm really looking forward to Workflows! I'd love to automatically share with someone all pictures that include them. There is a bunch of third party app that can do that easily, ie : https://github.com/romainrbr/immich-face-to-album https://github.com/romainrbr/immich-face-to-album But indeed it would be better to have it integrated into Immich
  - Vinnl 1y ago
    Yes, I'm actually using that right now, except I haven't gone through the effort to set up a cron job, so I'm just running it manually every now and then now. Really looking forward to that being less effort.
- illiac786 1y ago
  Technical debt is really mean, they had planned for lots of these things for 2024 originally. But I still support them, technical debt is always like a iceberg, you trip on the tip, then discover it will consume you and your team for months to fix it. Still needs to be fixed as early as possible, otherwise everything becomes “invisibly slow”.
tom2948329494 1y ago
Love the CD design! A minor note: Nowhere in the release note do you say what the app is or what it does. Sure, I can find out by following the links, but coming in cold not knowing what immich is, I was kind of expecting to learn that in the write-up.
haunter 1y ago
What’s a good desktop app with the same-ish goal? > High performance [desktop] photo and video management solution Honestly all I want is - Non destructive library management. No copying and moving files and the library is just “a file” - Exif GPS map with search support (“Photos taken at NYC between 2 and 4pm”) - Automated (AI?) photo tagging
- ghgr 1y ago
  Checkout https://bpatrik.github.io/pigallery2/ https://bpatrik.github.io/pigallery2/. I've been using it for years and it checks all the boxes you're looking for
  - haunter 1y ago
    >self-hosted directory-first photo gallery website That's not a desktop app, in fact it's pretty much like Immich
- phlsa 1y ago
  digiKam[1] might be for you. I only tried it briefly, but I think it covers most of the requirements out outlined. I personally landed on Peakto[2], since it has the unique ability to create a unified catalog across multiple CaptureOne sessions, but it's probably overkill for what you need. [1] https://www.digikam.org https://www.digikam.org [2] https://cyme.io/en/products/peakto/ https://cyme.io/en/products/peakto/
- felixthehat 1y ago
  Phil Gyford just posted about "Trying out eight macOS alternatives to Lightroom Classic to see if I could switch to one of them." which covers some of those points https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/09/27/escaping-lightroom/ https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/09/27/escaping-ligh...
- 0x000042 1y ago
  Sounds like you need digikam. I have been a happy digikam user for more than a decade now. It works really well. The automated AI face detection can be improved compared to immich. But I guess this whole area is developing rapidly these days so I expect it to get better soon.
toastal 1y ago
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- mafro 1y ago
  This comment feels like a troll. I'm sure you are aware that: - Most open source projects on the Internet are on Github. One could argue Github itself has taken a significant role in the growth of OSS in the last decade - Using Discord is totally du jour for open source communities in 2025 - Reddit is still the biggest discussion forum on the Internet. Including discussion about open source
  - toastal 1y ago
    Not a troll. The normal, uninitiated folk don’t know any better about their choices of technology & what that means for our private data & autonomy. We have seen this song & dance of getting locked into shitty platforms like Slack, but projects are repeating history when they know better. Why not just tell folks to use Google & Apple Photos or Facebook? If you can see the advantage of your FOSS project & how it protects users, the same should apply to your own tech choices. If you want to maintain broad appeal for some reason instead of actually introducing them to other FOSS tech that would also be good for user, it might be a bit hypocritical tho understandable to have these channels open, maybe even official—but to make these the only option? Not a gateway/bridge? No mirrors? No email to send patches? Not cool.
addend 1y ago
Can Immich do search/filter based on both map (geographic area) and time parameters? Through add-ons or search text syntax? Example 1. Show all photos from this area (draw rectangle on map) from times 22:00 to 00:00. Example 2. Show all photos from this area (draw rectangle on map) from years 2020 to 2024 in months march to may AND september to october from times 22:00 to 00:00. In the Immich demo the map view lets me zoom and shows bubbles with the number of photos from an area but I see no way to select an area or bubble to explore just those photos in an album or temporary view. The map view does have a time range option (last N days or date range yyyy-mm-dd to yyyy-mm-dd), but no time of day range or months range. Search view has advanced options with place dropdowns (country state city) but no map area rectangle option. Also has date range (yyyy-mm-dd to yyyy-mm-dd), but no time of day range or non-contiguous time criteria. I think a photo viewer could implement the exemplified kind of searches in a slim way through a map view (user draws a rectangle) with sliders (year range, months range, time of day range) that ideally let the user set multiple ranges on one slider (march to may AND september to october). Ideally such combo criteria could then also be bookmarked and searched and the filtered in items could be batch operated on (tag, rename, delete).
- fivestones 1y ago
  I want to be able to do all these same kinds of searches too. Especially layering on searches, like what you said about how the search ideally could be bookmarked and searched on. Like any search result could become a smart album maybe. I’d love to be able to search something like [all photos in the box I drew on the map] and then out of those results [photos in 2021 and 2023] and then out of those results [photos of person x] and out of those results a clip search like [people walking on the beach]. It would also be great to remove photos from the search like [photos in this geographical area] but not [clip search for “yellow lab”].
mmlkrx 1y ago
I've been eyeing Immich for an iCloud replacement for some time now, does anybody have practical experience of how it can be used with iOS as the default backup destination for the Photos app instead of iCloud?
- teekert 1y ago
  I do that, I just enabled backups in the Immich app and there it goes.
- armsaw 1y ago
  I’ve disabled iCloud and use the PhotoSync app to move photos and videos from my phone to a file structure on my NAS, which Immich reads as an external library. Stable for over a year now - very happy with it.
- illiac786 1y ago
  I’ve done just that, it works. Searching does need some omph though, I will have to move it away from my poor little NAS at some point.
- mckjns 1y ago
  Something I find it missing is two way sync. Meaning if you delete a photo that has already been backed up in Immich, from the standard Photos app, it will live on in Immich. So I guess the solution is to just use Immich as your default photo manager. If anyone knows of solutions to this I'd be curious!
sonar_un 1y ago
For me Immich has been good, but not great. I keep going back to nextcloud photos if I really want to do any work, like sharing images and file management. I really don’t get having all of your images in a a library and not in a file structure. Immich can look at your external libraries but it can’t really do anything with them. I can’t injest, say my iPhone photos and then later categorize them and move them to the folder structure for more secure and stable long-term storage. I’ve wanted to like Immich and what they are doing, but I am fearful that they won’t be around forever and I will have just another wandering database of my images that I can’t really move to another platform when inevitably comes along.
- oblio 1y ago
  They've been around for a 3 years, which is not a very long time for FOSS. However the software seems stable, fast, it has lots of releases, all of which are good signs in terms of future availability. I forgot the name, but there is a software "law" that software that has been around for N years will probably be around for N more years (so the longer it's been around, the longer it will continue to be around). I see about 7 big contributors: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/graphs/contributors https://github.com/immich-app/immich/graphs/contributors. I think most of them work for/are sponsored by FUTO: https://futo.org/about/what-is-futo/ https://futo.org/about/what-is-futo/ And seeing the FUTO description, I like that. We need more of that :-) > FUTO is an organization dedicated to developing, both through in-house engineering and investment, technologies that frustrate centralization and industry consolidation. Though this part needs more research: > From its founding, FUTO has been funded entirely by investment from its sole owner, Eron Wolf. I have no idea who Eron Wolf is... Edit: found some more info. Potentially promising: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914264 https://gitlab.futo.org/eron/public/-/wikis/Thoughts-on-Open-Source https://gitlab.futo.org/eron/public/-/wikis/Thoughts-on-Open... Though the question remains about FUTOs long term sustainability.
  - alfyboy 1y ago
    You’re thinking about the [Lindy effect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect) I donate to Immich monthly, and I’m glad they managed to keep the project going and not paywalling any of their features, even under the influence of their new sponsor.
imiric 1y ago
Kudos to the team! It looks like a really polished product. I've been wanting to set it up at home for a while now, but I have some reservations... This type of fully featured open source software that competes with a service by a giant corporation with infinite resources is ripe for the typical OSS rugpull, and/or enshittification, and/or being acquired, followed by rugpull/enshittification. I've been burned many times by this before, and I'm reluctant to go all in on a product that demands so much practical investment: importing all my data, categorizing/labeling, using mobile apps, relying on "AI", etc. I'm tired of the modern software churn. Immich does have an optional commercial license, which is good, and it's part of the FUTO brand of products, which seems to have a noble vision. But it's an unproven model that doesn't guarantee none of the above will happen. In a weird way, I would like this type of software to be less polished and have less features. Both to make it less attractive for hostile practices, and to make development/maintenance easier and more cost-effective. Give me something that I can easily sync my photos to, view them in a web browser, and securely share them with close contacts. I don't need a Google Photos replacement. I need something simple that does a few things well, and that I can trust is not going to disappear on me. Is there such a product? I'm aware of apps like Nextcloud which probably does this, but that's even more complex than Immich. Currently I'm just using `rsync`, and a static file web server, but that's a pretty hacky solution. I would need just a bit more polish. I could probably do this myself, but already have a long list of unfinished projects I would like to get to first.
- bo0tzz 1y ago
  > ripe for the typical OSS rugpull Immich is AGPL-licensed and doesn't have a CLA, which makes it functionally impossible for us to do any kind of rugpull. We're already "aqcuired" by FUTO since a solid year ago[0] and it's only been up since then. > I don't need a Google Photos replacement. Then there are many other options in this space that might be better suited to you. [1] has a really good overview. [0]: https://immich.app/blog/immich-joins-futo https://immich.app/blog/immich-joins-futo [1]: https://meichthys.github.io/foss_photo_libraries/ https://meichthys.github.io/foss_photo_libraries/
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crossroadsguy 1y ago
I wish there were more hosted solutions for such FOSS tools. Just like the likes of Nextcloud and say borg, restic etc. It will make it FOSS accessible to people who do not want to self-host and it can then also be more accessible in terms of cost.
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bossyTeacher 1y ago
What a wonderful surprise! I had been thinking about a solution like this in the last year. I am curious what led everyone to this software? Is everyone else wary of the main commercial providers, privacy issues, getting locked out of your Apple/Google account, etc?
sylens 1y ago
Immich is fantastic. I’m just waiting on Worflows to replace Google Photo’s smart albums before I fully cut over
dpacmittal 1y ago
I tried immich recently and it works great. My only gripe with it is the use of postgres which requires separate backing up. Would've preferred something like sqlite for easier backups. Even better if it could embed metadata directly in EXIF or sidecar files.
- crtasm 1y ago
  It makes regular database dumps to library/backups/*.sql.gz so I think backing up the library directory is enough?
bobcostas55 1y ago
I really like Immich, although recently their android app randomly decided to go out of sync with my library and stop backing up automatically :/
- me_vinayakakv 1y ago
  That happened to me yesterday and got solved on its own automatically. If it happens next time, will check app logs (Profile Icon > Logs) to see if it contains anything useful
binaryturtle 1y ago
I read that announcement and I have zero idea what this "immich" app (?) is. How about adding some short introduction text explaining what the thing is for folks just discovering this thing via a HN link (w/o forcing them to click further or digging the information from somewhere else)?
- denysvitali 1y ago
  Google Photos alternative -> https://immich.app https://immich.app
- d3vnull 1y ago
  That post complaining about lack of context took longer than typping "immich" into duck duck go and reading the single sentence that pops up at the top describing exactly what immich is. ----------- Immich Immich is a project that lets you back up, organize, and manage your photos and videos on your own server. It is under active development and available under GNU AGPL v3 license.
vr46 1y ago
An excellent piece of work, although needed and continues to need more horsepower than I have readily available. UI not super-useful but I am going to dig in and see if the API can be utilized to get what I would like - better exposure of underlying file structure to quickly navigate by date.
jannesan 1y ago
Is Immich good at finding duplicates? And generally cleaning up a dump of photos? Or am I better off using Digikam for that before importing to Immich?
- fourseventy 1y ago
  It has pretty good duplicate detection in my experience.
- illiac786 1y ago
  The embedded duplicate detector is not bad, and there’s a third party one that relies on Immich api that is even better.
  - stavros 1y ago
    You can't say that and not link!
- derkades 1y ago
  Czkwaka is another good tool for finding duplicate photos
ctxc 1y ago
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fourseventy 1y ago
I literally just migrated from Photoprism to Immich 4 days ago. Hopefully migrating to 2.0 isn't hard. Very happy with Immich though, its miles ahead of Photoprism and at this point the best choice for self hosting photos.
- honeycrispy 1y ago
  > Hopefully migrating to 2.0 isn't hard. It's not. I did it in under a minute.
- stavros 1y ago
  There's no migration necessary really, you just pull the new version and that's it.
- tuesdaynight 1y ago
  I've tried to use Photoprism last year, but it didn't work great for me, so I was planning to move to Immich. It's nice to hear that it's miles ahead in your experience. Do you use the search by context feature? I mean, searching "yellow car" and getting pictures with yellow cars in them as response. My experience with Photoprism was horrible in that aspect.
  - fourseventy 1y ago
    The search is pretty good in Immich. Fast and pretty accurate, much better than photoprism
codethief 1y ago
Is there a proper changelog somewhere? Previous releases on GitHub documented changes in great detail but v2.0.0 only lists a few bug fixes and beyond that just refers to the git history: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/tag/v2.0.0 https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/tag/v2.0.0
- Vinnl 1y ago
  Looking at the Git history since the last release [1], that looks pretty accurate. Practically no changes other than now calling it stable. [1] https://github.com/immich-app/immich/compare/v1.144.1...v2.0.0 https://github.com/immich-app/immich/compare/v1.144.1...v2.0...
  - codethief 1y ago
    Huh. So why increase the major version? Does Immich not use semantic versioning?
    - ratrocket 1y ago
      From TFA it sounds like they didn't do semver prior to this release but now will: > What versioning strategy will Immich use? > > Starting with v2.0.0, we will now follow semantic versioning. (edit for formatting)
      - a022311 1y ago
        Yep, I was one of the people who complained about that when they were making breaking changes every other release. It's great to see they actually kept their promise!
blacklion 1y ago
Immich is good to replace google photos or even Lightroom Library, but it is bad to replace Flickr. Does anybody know self-hosting solution to have nice site to show off selected photos? No authorization and users for viewers, no "share" links, but photostream, albums, tags, way to see one photo full-screen. With minimal "chrome" like Flickr can do. It doesn't need to have photo-organization things, object recognition, etc, which is needed to navigate your full library. Only way to show photos your specifically selected to publish.
- jasonfrost 1y ago
  >Does anybody know self-hosting solution to have nice site to show off selected photos? ... >Only way to show photos your specifically selected to publish. Huh? The share feature works with no auth, I wouldn't want it different. Sounds like you just want to build a self hosted website to show portfolio work which... You just make a website
- WD-42 1y ago
  Have you considered a blog? You could probably realize your vision with Wordpress pretty easily.
- aDyslecticCrow 1y ago
  Eehm. Wordpress? Your requirements sounds like a normal personal portfolio website.
  - blacklion 1y ago
    Several people suggested Wordpress, but I have very bad experience with helping my friends to install & use Wordpress. It is complete mess of software.
- victorbjorklund 1y ago
  Just do a static website with object storage for the photos. If you just have a few thousand photos you could even bundle the photos with the website and host it for free at cloudflare pages.
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nhumrich 1y ago
What are people using as backup solutions for immich?
- philjohn 1y ago
  Immich is running in ProxMox for me, and using an NFS mounted ZFS dataset (encrypted at rest as the rack is in the garage, unlocks on boot using clevis and tang). That ZFS dataset is backed up daily offsite using Restic + Rclone Immich LXC is backed up daily to Proxmox Backup Server 1, which syncs to Proxmox Backup Server 2, and also gets sent offsite. PostgreSQL is running in another LXC container, which also backs up to PBS and also offsite.
- BirdieNZ 1y ago
  Cron job with a bash script syncing media and the database to S3 Deep Archive once a day. Cheap as chips until you need to restore.
KuhlMensch 1y ago
Recently set this up. Like others - very simple.

547 points by Alexvb 1y ago

Immich is excellent. Especially the beta timeline introduced in the last few Android app releases has leveled Immich up from 'pretty decent' to a genuine replacement for Google Photos for me.

darkwater 1y ago
Yep, with the new timeline they fixed my biggest issue with Immich which was the local app won't even show your local photos if there was no connection to the server. Now it works, you just don't get others photos if they are not cached already but that's absolutely expected.

yesnomaybe 1y ago

Congrats and huge thanks. Been a user since over 1 year and it has been more than amazing. Progress was unbelievable. Features I was hoping would exist but never would have thought I would ever see them, like album sync, were added in short time. I've replaced Apple Photos with Immich (from iCloud to self-hosted) and this was one of the important things to transfer. I'm completely de-Appled now and Immich was part of the journey.

stavros 1y ago
Out of curiosity, have you bought the "supporter" upgrade?

stavros 1y ago

I use Immich and it's fantastic. All other self-hosted alternatives I I've used have been lacking in one way or another, but Immich is a joy to use. Fast, featureful, easy to set up. I love it so much I gave them $100 to support them. After stopping for years because it was hard to view them easily, I'm finally taking photos again because of Immich.

Barbing 1y ago
>After stopping for years Honestly, thank you for making me feel marginally better about the disgustingly lazy, shortsighted, stupid etc. practice of using Google Photos even though they are waiting with bated breath to report me to the cops because I took a picture of my son to send to his doctor[1], before banning my whole account. Migrating to Immich, 2026, hold me to it please lazy me! Oh how’s the search? (Too lazy to label anything so rely on Google Spyware for text & object recognition search when iOS fails. Take photos every day of my life so plenty to trawl through.) [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...
- stavros 1y ago
  Migrate today! I won't use any third-party photo service, that's too much data. The search is amazing, you search for "cat" and you get back all the cats.
  - j_bum 1y ago
    The search is very impressive. It uses CLIP. So you can search “black cat on blue carpet in the morning” and expect to see a result (if it exists)
    - stavros 1y ago
      Well shit, you're right! https://imgz.org/iiAgNmEJ.jpg https://imgz.org/iiAgNmEJ.jpg I didn't know it was that good! Wow.
- tecleandor 1y ago
  OMG, I'm so sorry for that. That's terrible.
  - Barbing 1y ago
    oof a hypothetical my bad! ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45458560 )

avtolik 1y ago

I haven't heard of this app before, so I looked around their site and docs. I was mildly interested in trying it out until I saw the requirements: "A system with at least 4GB of RAM and 2 CPU cores.", but recommended 6 GB of RAM. Why does an image storage solution needs so much RAM?

d3vnull 1y ago
Because it's not just an "image storage solution". A thumb drive would be an image storage solution. If you're indexing, making geo queries, serving over the network, categorize, transcode video and everything else that's needed to create a google photos competitor, you're going to need the hardware to back it up.
frenkel 1y ago
Because it wants to recognize objects in you images.
darkwater 1y ago
Because it is written in Node, it uses several other softwares (i.e. Postgresql), it runs image/video processing on the fly (transcoding to various formats depending on what you upload and who views), it does face/object recognition running a local model and a few other nice features that yeah, require more power. It's not a static HTML of your photos.
fifafu 1y ago
If you just need an image storage solution: no, but then you don't need Immich. If you want the feature Immich offers: yes
tim-kt 1y ago
The last time I tried Immich (a year ago or so), my impression was that Immich tries to imitate Google Photos as much as possible. This includes features such as searching by a person or by "cat", which requires some machine learning sophistication, which is done locally (you can also disable these features). This would be my guess, but I'm not entirely sure.
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jaredlt 1y ago

I appreciate the Cursed Knowledge section on their website https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge > Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew

darkwater 1y ago
Reading it I see this 50 extra packages are cursed There is a user in the JavaScript community who goes around adding "backwards compatibility" to projects. They do this by adding 50 extra package dependencies to your project, which are maintained by them. which bring to this user: Jordan Harband https://github.com/sponsors/ljharb https://github.com/sponsors/ljharb Does anyone know what they actually mean with that cursed knowledge point? And what's the "backwards compatibility" that Jordan also boasts in his GH profile?
- pcthrowaway 1y ago
  Seems like this thread answers your question https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37604373 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37604373
- slaterbug 1y ago
  I don't have much to add myself, but there was a bit of discussion around this back in August that you might be interested in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44831811 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44831811
  - darkwater 1y ago
    Wow! Didn't know Immich's Cursed page had already a dedicated post on HN. I love reading about opensource drama, especially if it's some technology I don't use directly, it's like watching a soap opera.
  - 12345hn6789 1y ago
    This user makes money of off how many downloads their packages receive. https://github.com/A11yance/axobject-query/pull/354#issuecomment-2184124757 https://github.com/A11yance/axobject-query/pull/354#issuecom...

magicalhippo 1y ago

I tried to use the embedding stuff a year ago but the results were lackluster, even with the larger embedding model. With the new multimodal LLMs it seems a better approach might be to get a multimodal LLM to describe the image and list keywords, and then just use the included Meilisearch. That said, I see they list some models I haven't tried, so perhaps time to try again.

cyberax 1y ago

Love it! I bought the supporter package a year ago. One thing that is missing for me is integration with external tools, maybe using a bit more flexible storage structure. And also smart geotagging.

dsego 1y ago

This is the one photo manager that I have my eyes on, I'm just worried about critical bugs, I've seen some issues reported on github with losing data, like this one on the mobile app. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/21936 https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/21936 Not sure what to say, could be a very very rare edge case, but it's not very reassuring.

InsideOutSanta 1y ago
I've been using Immich for a year now and haven't lost a single image. Having said that, if you self-host something like this, you're responsible for making backups. The actual photos uploaded to Immich are stored in the file system as regular files. Any other data that Immich can't easily recreate is stored in Postgres, which it automatically dumps once a day. So if you back up your image files and your Postgres dumps, you can always recreate your library.
- darkest_ruby 1y ago
  Can you pls share the paths of folders to be backed up?, especially the raw image files
  - InsideOutSanta 1y ago
    Immich has documentation here: https://docs.immich.app/administration/backup-and-restore/ https://docs.immich.app/administration/backup-and-restore/ All relevant files are stored in your UPLOAD_LOCATION which you defined in your .env file (if you deployed immich via Docker Compose). The files you absolutely need to back up are in: - UPLOAD_LOCATION/upload ← Contains your images - UPLOAD_LOCATION/backups ← Contains your postgres dumps You should also back up these two directories: - UPLOAD_LOCATION/library - UPLOAD_LOCATION/profile They're not strictly necessary, but it makes it easier to restore the same setup.
    - darkest_ruby 1y ago
      Thank you, that's very useful

teekert 1y ago

Immich is really great, easily now my fav self-hosted app. I used the Immich CLI [0] and later Immich-go [1] to get all my photos in. That was a breeze. I set it to use the folders as albums... And now I have a lot of cleaning up to do, but other than with files and folders, I'm really enjoying the process! A poweruser tip that has helped me a couple of times: Use ZFS (or other snapshotting facilities) to make snapshot before making any changes/updates or doing large imports. It makes the whole thing sort of bullet proof and you can retry if you're not happy with some import flag. Immich had my old Corei3 server making a lot of noise for a couple of days btw! But, it's really good at facial recognition, not so much on finding dogs or something. But still very cool if you don't have to compromise on features as a self-hoster, I'm really grateful and will buy the "support package" (which does not add anything afaik... btw later they will come with a way to do seamless, encrypted off-site backups). [0] https://docs.immich.app/features/command-line-interface/ https://docs.immich.app/features/command-line-interface/ [1] https://github.com/simulot/immich-go https://github.com/simulot/immich-go

stavros 1y ago
I just added an external folder and copied all my photos there. Even though Immich's own photos folder is just a directory with dates, Immich is much less picky about what goes in the external folder (and, more importantly, what disappears from it).

rootnod3 1y ago

Really wanna try it out, but will have to see if and how I can build/install it manually on FreeBSD.

drekipus 1y ago

I've been working on a project that had a similar origin story, and gave up because it's so big. I'm glad to see immich strive forward. I wanted to change the "approach" of how I do photos: * When I take a photo, it's usually in the moment. * I want to have the option to "share" that photo directly to a certain album * I'd want my wife / friends to be able to "share" the photo to those albums Almost the same way that "frequent contacts" come up from WhatsApp. Is this possible with the current app? This is what I wanted my app to do, and focus on being more "album" centric, rather than a big-black-hole of all photos I've ever taken.. I might even make my app, but use immich on the backend, and allow users to order a hardcopy / backup of their albums as part of the app.

illiac786 1y ago
Isn’t that a simple shared album with upload permissions for everyone? Immich has that, yes.

darkamaul 1y ago

I’ve been running Immich for about two years on Oracle’s free tier (200 GB disk / ARM VM), and it works great. Since I don’t fully trust Oracle for long-term storage, I’ve configured a daily backup to Backblaze. My only minor complaint is that new releases are super frequent and rarely add anything meaningful.

Vinnl 1y ago

I've only been using Immich for a little while, but it's been amazing to see how quickly its development has been going. Hard to imagine they had much technical debt to tackle. > There are still a few items on our roadmap that we want to complete before the year ends such as auto-stacking, and achieving feature parity between the web and mobile app. We also have plans to start work on improved stack support, better sharing, group management, and ownership improvements, as well as many other enhancements. That said, this sounds like they're not going to get the full 2025 plan done: https://immich.app/roadmap https://immich.app/roadmap Which is totally fine of course, I'm still a very happy user. But I'm really looking forward to Workflows! I'd love to automatically share with someone all pictures that include them.

romainrbr 1y ago
> But I'm really looking forward to Workflows! I'd love to automatically share with someone all pictures that include them. There is a bunch of third party app that can do that easily, ie : https://github.com/romainrbr/immich-face-to-album https://github.com/romainrbr/immich-face-to-album But indeed it would be better to have it integrated into Immich
- Vinnl 1y ago
  Yes, I'm actually using that right now, except I haven't gone through the effort to set up a cron job, so I'm just running it manually every now and then now. Really looking forward to that being less effort.
illiac786 1y ago
Technical debt is really mean, they had planned for lots of these things for 2024 originally. But I still support them, technical debt is always like a iceberg, you trip on the tip, then discover it will consume you and your team for months to fix it. Still needs to be fixed as early as possible, otherwise everything becomes “invisibly slow”.

tom2948329494 1y ago

Love the CD design! A minor note: Nowhere in the release note do you say what the app is or what it does. Sure, I can find out by following the links, but coming in cold not knowing what immich is, I was kind of expecting to learn that in the write-up.

haunter 1y ago

What’s a good desktop app with the same-ish goal? > High performance [desktop] photo and video management solution Honestly all I want is - Non destructive library management. No copying and moving files and the library is just “a file” - Exif GPS map with search support (“Photos taken at NYC between 2 and 4pm”) - Automated (AI?) photo tagging

ghgr 1y ago
Checkout https://bpatrik.github.io/pigallery2/ https://bpatrik.github.io/pigallery2/. I've been using it for years and it checks all the boxes you're looking for
- haunter 1y ago
  >self-hosted directory-first photo gallery website That's not a desktop app, in fact it's pretty much like Immich
phlsa 1y ago
digiKam[1] might be for you. I only tried it briefly, but I think it covers most of the requirements out outlined. I personally landed on Peakto[2], since it has the unique ability to create a unified catalog across multiple CaptureOne sessions, but it's probably overkill for what you need. [1] https://www.digikam.org https://www.digikam.org [2] https://cyme.io/en/products/peakto/ https://cyme.io/en/products/peakto/
felixthehat 1y ago
Phil Gyford just posted about "Trying out eight macOS alternatives to Lightroom Classic to see if I could switch to one of them." which covers some of those points https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/09/27/escaping-lightroom/ https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/09/27/escaping-ligh...
0x000042 1y ago
Sounds like you need digikam. I have been a happy digikam user for more than a decade now. It works really well. The automated AI face detection can be improved compared to immich. But I guess this whole area is developing rapidly these days so I expect it to get better soon.

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mafro 1y ago
This comment feels like a troll. I'm sure you are aware that: - Most open source projects on the Internet are on Github. One could argue Github itself has taken a significant role in the growth of OSS in the last decade - Using Discord is totally du jour for open source communities in 2025 - Reddit is still the biggest discussion forum on the Internet. Including discussion about open source
- toastal 1y ago
  Not a troll. The normal, uninitiated folk don’t know any better about their choices of technology & what that means for our private data & autonomy. We have seen this song & dance of getting locked into shitty platforms like Slack, but projects are repeating history when they know better. Why not just tell folks to use Google & Apple Photos or Facebook? If you can see the advantage of your FOSS project & how it protects users, the same should apply to your own tech choices. If you want to maintain broad appeal for some reason instead of actually introducing them to other FOSS tech that would also be good for user, it might be a bit hypocritical tho understandable to have these channels open, maybe even official—but to make these the only option? Not a gateway/bridge? No mirrors? No email to send patches? Not cool.

addend 1y ago

Can Immich do search/filter based on both map (geographic area) and time parameters? Through add-ons or search text syntax? Example 1. Show all photos from this area (draw rectangle on map) from times 22:00 to 00:00. Example 2. Show all photos from this area (draw rectangle on map) from years 2020 to 2024 in months march to may AND september to october from times 22:00 to 00:00. In the Immich demo the map view lets me zoom and shows bubbles with the number of photos from an area but I see no way to select an area or bubble to explore just those photos in an album or temporary view. The map view does have a time range option (last N days or date range yyyy-mm-dd to yyyy-mm-dd), but no time of day range or months range. Search view has advanced options with place dropdowns (country state city) but no map area rectangle option. Also has date range (yyyy-mm-dd to yyyy-mm-dd), but no time of day range or non-contiguous time criteria. I think a photo viewer could implement the exemplified kind of searches in a slim way through a map view (user draws a rectangle) with sliders (year range, months range, time of day range) that ideally let the user set multiple ranges on one slider (march to may AND september to october). Ideally such combo criteria could then also be bookmarked and searched and the filtered in items could be batch operated on (tag, rename, delete).

fivestones 1y ago
I want to be able to do all these same kinds of searches too. Especially layering on searches, like what you said about how the search ideally could be bookmarked and searched on. Like any search result could become a smart album maybe. I’d love to be able to search something like [all photos in the box I drew on the map] and then out of those results [photos in 2021 and 2023] and then out of those results [photos of person x] and out of those results a clip search like [people walking on the beach]. It would also be great to remove photos from the search like [photos in this geographical area] but not [clip search for “yellow lab”].

mmlkrx 1y ago

I've been eyeing Immich for an iCloud replacement for some time now, does anybody have practical experience of how it can be used with iOS as the default backup destination for the Photos app instead of iCloud?

teekert 1y ago
I do that, I just enabled backups in the Immich app and there it goes.
armsaw 1y ago
I’ve disabled iCloud and use the PhotoSync app to move photos and videos from my phone to a file structure on my NAS, which Immich reads as an external library. Stable for over a year now - very happy with it.
illiac786 1y ago
I’ve done just that, it works. Searching does need some omph though, I will have to move it away from my poor little NAS at some point.
mckjns 1y ago
Something I find it missing is two way sync. Meaning if you delete a photo that has already been backed up in Immich, from the standard Photos app, it will live on in Immich. So I guess the solution is to just use Immich as your default photo manager. If anyone knows of solutions to this I'd be curious!

sonar_un 1y ago

For me Immich has been good, but not great. I keep going back to nextcloud photos if I really want to do any work, like sharing images and file management. I really don’t get having all of your images in a a library and not in a file structure. Immich can look at your external libraries but it can’t really do anything with them. I can’t injest, say my iPhone photos and then later categorize them and move them to the folder structure for more secure and stable long-term storage. I’ve wanted to like Immich and what they are doing, but I am fearful that they won’t be around forever and I will have just another wandering database of my images that I can’t really move to another platform when inevitably comes along.

oblio 1y ago
They've been around for a 3 years, which is not a very long time for FOSS. However the software seems stable, fast, it has lots of releases, all of which are good signs in terms of future availability. I forgot the name, but there is a software "law" that software that has been around for N years will probably be around for N more years (so the longer it's been around, the longer it will continue to be around). I see about 7 big contributors: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/graphs/contributors https://github.com/immich-app/immich/graphs/contributors. I think most of them work for/are sponsored by FUTO: https://futo.org/about/what-is-futo/ https://futo.org/about/what-is-futo/ And seeing the FUTO description, I like that. We need more of that :-) > FUTO is an organization dedicated to developing, both through in-house engineering and investment, technologies that frustrate centralization and industry consolidation. Though this part needs more research: > From its founding, FUTO has been funded entirely by investment from its sole owner, Eron Wolf. I have no idea who Eron Wolf is... Edit: found some more info. Potentially promising: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914264 https://gitlab.futo.org/eron/public/-/wikis/Thoughts-on-Open-Source https://gitlab.futo.org/eron/public/-/wikis/Thoughts-on-Open... Though the question remains about FUTOs long term sustainability.
- alfyboy 1y ago
  You’re thinking about the [Lindy effect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect) I donate to Immich monthly, and I’m glad they managed to keep the project going and not paywalling any of their features, even under the influence of their new sponsor.

imiric 1y ago

Kudos to the team! It looks like a really polished product. I've been wanting to set it up at home for a while now, but I have some reservations... This type of fully featured open source software that competes with a service by a giant corporation with infinite resources is ripe for the typical OSS rugpull, and/or enshittification, and/or being acquired, followed by rugpull/enshittification. I've been burned many times by this before, and I'm reluctant to go all in on a product that demands so much practical investment: importing all my data, categorizing/labeling, using mobile apps, relying on "AI", etc. I'm tired of the modern software churn. Immich does have an optional commercial license, which is good, and it's part of the FUTO brand of products, which seems to have a noble vision. But it's an unproven model that doesn't guarantee none of the above will happen. In a weird way, I would like this type of software to be less polished and have less features. Both to make it less attractive for hostile practices, and to make development/maintenance easier and more cost-effective. Give me something that I can easily sync my photos to, view them in a web browser, and securely share them with close contacts. I don't need a Google Photos replacement. I need something simple that does a few things well, and that I can trust is not going to disappear on me. Is there such a product? I'm aware of apps like Nextcloud which probably does this, but that's even more complex than Immich. Currently I'm just using `rsync`, and a static file web server, but that's a pretty hacky solution. I would need just a bit more polish. I could probably do this myself, but already have a long list of unfinished projects I would like to get to first.

bo0tzz 1y ago
> ripe for the typical OSS rugpull Immich is AGPL-licensed and doesn't have a CLA, which makes it functionally impossible for us to do any kind of rugpull. We're already "aqcuired" by FUTO since a solid year ago[0] and it's only been up since then. > I don't need a Google Photos replacement. Then there are many other options in this space that might be better suited to you. [1] has a really good overview. [0]: https://immich.app/blog/immich-joins-futo https://immich.app/blog/immich-joins-futo [1]: https://meichthys.github.io/foss_photo_libraries/ https://meichthys.github.io/foss_photo_libraries/
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crossroadsguy 1y ago

I wish there were more hosted solutions for such FOSS tools. Just like the likes of Nextcloud and say borg, restic etc. It will make it FOSS accessible to people who do not want to self-host and it can then also be more accessible in terms of cost.

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bossyTeacher 1y ago

What a wonderful surprise! I had been thinking about a solution like this in the last year. I am curious what led everyone to this software? Is everyone else wary of the main commercial providers, privacy issues, getting locked out of your Apple/Google account, etc?

sylens 1y ago

Immich is fantastic. I’m just waiting on Worflows to replace Google Photo’s smart albums before I fully cut over

dpacmittal 1y ago

I tried immich recently and it works great. My only gripe with it is the use of postgres which requires separate backing up. Would've preferred something like sqlite for easier backups. Even better if it could embed metadata directly in EXIF or sidecar files.

crtasm 1y ago
It makes regular database dumps to library/backups/*.sql.gz so I think backing up the library directory is enough?

bobcostas55 1y ago

I really like Immich, although recently their android app randomly decided to go out of sync with my library and stop backing up automatically :/

me_vinayakakv 1y ago
That happened to me yesterday and got solved on its own automatically. If it happens next time, will check app logs (Profile Icon > Logs) to see if it contains anything useful

binaryturtle 1y ago

I read that announcement and I have zero idea what this "immich" app (?) is. How about adding some short introduction text explaining what the thing is for folks just discovering this thing via a HN link (w/o forcing them to click further or digging the information from somewhere else)?

denysvitali 1y ago
Google Photos alternative -> https://immich.app https://immich.app
d3vnull 1y ago
That post complaining about lack of context took longer than typping "immich" into duck duck go and reading the single sentence that pops up at the top describing exactly what immich is. ----------- Immich Immich is a project that lets you back up, organize, and manage your photos and videos on your own server. It is under active development and available under GNU AGPL v3 license.

vr46 1y ago

An excellent piece of work, although needed and continues to need more horsepower than I have readily available. UI not super-useful but I am going to dig in and see if the API can be utilized to get what I would like - better exposure of underlying file structure to quickly navigate by date.

jannesan 1y ago

Is Immich good at finding duplicates? And generally cleaning up a dump of photos? Or am I better off using Digikam for that before importing to Immich?

fourseventy 1y ago
It has pretty good duplicate detection in my experience.
illiac786 1y ago
The embedded duplicate detector is not bad, and there’s a third party one that relies on Immich api that is even better.
- stavros 1y ago
  You can't say that and not link!
derkades 1y ago
Czkwaka is another good tool for finding duplicate photos

ctxc 1y ago

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fourseventy 1y ago

I literally just migrated from Photoprism to Immich 4 days ago. Hopefully migrating to 2.0 isn't hard. Very happy with Immich though, its miles ahead of Photoprism and at this point the best choice for self hosting photos.

honeycrispy 1y ago
> Hopefully migrating to 2.0 isn't hard. It's not. I did it in under a minute.
stavros 1y ago
There's no migration necessary really, you just pull the new version and that's it.
tuesdaynight 1y ago
I've tried to use Photoprism last year, but it didn't work great for me, so I was planning to move to Immich. It's nice to hear that it's miles ahead in your experience. Do you use the search by context feature? I mean, searching "yellow car" and getting pictures with yellow cars in them as response. My experience with Photoprism was horrible in that aspect.
- fourseventy 1y ago
  The search is pretty good in Immich. Fast and pretty accurate, much better than photoprism

codethief 1y ago

Is there a proper changelog somewhere? Previous releases on GitHub documented changes in great detail but v2.0.0 only lists a few bug fixes and beyond that just refers to the git history: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/tag/v2.0.0 https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Vinnl 1y ago
Looking at the Git history since the last release [1], that looks pretty accurate. Practically no changes other than now calling it stable. [1] https://github.com/immich-app/immich/compare/v1.144.1...v2.0.0 https://github.com/immich-app/immich/compare/v1.144.1...v2.0...
- codethief 1y ago
  Huh. So why increase the major version? Does Immich not use semantic versioning?
  - ratrocket 1y ago
    From TFA it sounds like they didn't do semver prior to this release but now will: > What versioning strategy will Immich use? > > Starting with v2.0.0, we will now follow semantic versioning. (edit for formatting)
    - a022311 1y ago
      Yep, I was one of the people who complained about that when they were making breaking changes every other release. It's great to see they actually kept their promise!

blacklion 1y ago

Immich is good to replace google photos or even Lightroom Library, but it is bad to replace Flickr. Does anybody know self-hosting solution to have nice site to show off selected photos? No authorization and users for viewers, no "share" links, but photostream, albums, tags, way to see one photo full-screen. With minimal "chrome" like Flickr can do. It doesn't need to have photo-organization things, object recognition, etc, which is needed to navigate your full library. Only way to show photos your specifically selected to publish.

jasonfrost 1y ago
>Does anybody know self-hosting solution to have nice site to show off selected photos? ... >Only way to show photos your specifically selected to publish. Huh? The share feature works with no auth, I wouldn't want it different. Sounds like you just want to build a self hosted website to show portfolio work which... You just make a website
WD-42 1y ago
Have you considered a blog? You could probably realize your vision with Wordpress pretty easily.
aDyslecticCrow 1y ago
Eehm. Wordpress? Your requirements sounds like a normal personal portfolio website.
- blacklion 1y ago
  Several people suggested Wordpress, but I have very bad experience with helping my friends to install & use Wordpress. It is complete mess of software.
victorbjorklund 1y ago
Just do a static website with object storage for the photos. If you just have a few thousand photos you could even bundle the photos with the website and host it for free at cloudflare pages.

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nhumrich 1y ago

What are people using as backup solutions for immich?

philjohn 1y ago
Immich is running in ProxMox for me, and using an NFS mounted ZFS dataset (encrypted at rest as the rack is in the garage, unlocks on boot using clevis and tang). That ZFS dataset is backed up daily offsite using Restic + Rclone Immich LXC is backed up daily to Proxmox Backup Server 1, which syncs to Proxmox Backup Server 2, and also gets sent offsite. PostgreSQL is running in another LXC container, which also backs up to PBS and also offsite.
BirdieNZ 1y ago
Cron job with a bash script syncing media and the database to S3 Deep Archive once a day. Cheap as chips until you need to restore.

KuhlMensch 1y ago

Recently set this up. Like others - very simple.