Photoprism or Immich

Immich vs Photoprism.

Winner = Immich

Best comparison ever

Throwing another possible contender out there: Nextcloud Memories. Seems like an interesting solution if you're already running Nextcloud.

Both great projects I would also put librephotos to the equation with its feature rich unofficial android client Uhuru photos

All have great android apps and great Dev base

Have tried all three and also tried every other selfhosted image gallery

Photoprim is overall the most mature and complete in features

Yes it requires a third party app to sync your assets but the auto index feature if you sync to their webdav endpoint is killer. This means the proccess from the moment of taking a picture till it shows up in your photoprism gallery is "instant"

Also the unofficial android client is super great and almost android TV compatible

So

To be honest there is not a fair answer You really have to hey them all

:-)

I've been using PhotoPrism for the past couple of days and have really liked it.

I was considering Immich, but the rapid development cycle turned me off of it for now. I don't want to have to deal with keeping up with patch notes and potential breaking changes. Immich also seems more focused on photo backups from your phone, which isn't quite what I wanted. PhotoPrism just let me upload all my existing photos on the web ui.

I'd say give both a try. Both provide a docker-compose file, so you should be able to bring them up fairly quick.

Photoprism better for single user. More stable, prettier, more free license.

Immich has support for multiple libraries, and sharing with your other users. Immich has better ai tools. I'm using immich because I just had a baby and want to see the pictures my wife takes of her.

I also vastly prefer having a single, canon source of photos. I syncthing my library to my laptop for full control (and backup). It's happened before when migrating my server app that I need to reimport all my pictures into a new database. It's super easy if they're all in one spot.

When Photoprism adds multi library, I'll probably switch back. With the main reason being license.

I'm sorta in the same boat as you. I run Synology all my photos and manage 5 different family members photos.

So I have different use cases for them and myself.

**For them: **They only care about the ability to see where they took their photos and its uploading correctly. The built in face detection is average at best but its enough for them to find the photo they are looking for.

They will never use the full extent of all the metadata that is available to them if I had it.

The tradeoffs are the ease of deployment and account management. I only have 5 members and if I had to teach each one which website or page to go to so they can view their images, it would drive me nuts. I simply give them credentials and a link to download from Apple Store and Playstore and off they go. New phones? No problem. Add it to their AppleTV? Don't need to bother me.
** For Me: ** I use Excire Foto and it scans each photo and helps me manage everything with a very powerful AI tool for tagging. I use it for the majority of my photo management. The downside, its not very remote friendly. So if you're working remote, you will not be able to manage your NAS photos from afar.

This way I keep both Synology Photos and use Excire when I'm needing to do some real work.

I would vote for Immich. It has more features (mobile app with automatic backup), and seems to use less resources on the server side.

I'm happy with photoprism for a single user. I don't like their subscription model, and will never pay an on-going fee. There's a chance they will move more features behind that paywall. I did pay the one-time unlock for the automatic upload companion app, but that seems like a core feature they should implement.

Honestly im all about nextcloud photos.

I want to use Immich because it works and looks great, but the lack of even basic editing features (like image rotation or EXIF editor) is deal breaker for me.

Immich without a doubt

The biggest factor that decided which one for me all fell down to the mobile experience. I take all my photos on my phone, and I want a solution that will auto upload and allow me to browse them like Google Photos. Immich does a fantastic job with this. I haven't found a better solution than it yet

I've been using Photoprism for a while, but found it very resource-heavy for my poor little NAS. Even after finishing ingesting my photo library, and finished tagging all the faces, it still occupies about 50% CPU routinely. However, I can't install Immich because apparently the CPU on my NAS doesn't support AVX required by typesense.. Anyone know of some work-around?

immich, is on active development and new features are being added continuously.

What about syncthing + pigallery2?

It uses 10x less RAM