If you’re interested in a self-hosted alternative, I can highly recommend immich. The UI is clean and fast (relative to Photoprism), has android and iOS apps, auto phone->server uploading, sharable albums, and more features. I don’t know anyone that has been disappointed after switching, and I see why
The biggest pain if you want to set it up is starting your home server if you don’t already have one. Otherwise I found setting up immich itself on a server pretty easy
I primarily found that when importing photos, it would take Photoprism a long time to generate thumbnails. It was long enough that I would give up on trying to sort through the photos after uploading and come back a few hours later
Alternatively with Immich, I dumped ~100 Halloween photos taken with my phone and DSLR onto the server. They were already previewable by the time the files were done uploading
I’ve already uninstalled Photoprism so I couldn’t tell you what my config was. Could have required more tuning; but I’m at a point in life where I’m leaning towards needing things to “just work”, than to have to tune things
Re: Unclean: IIRC, Photoprism gives you a lot of tools and options. More options and features = more stuff on your screen = a more cluttered UI. While I did like the tools, it also made it difficult to share with normies
The only problem with Immich is that it’s a fascism-supporting FUTO project. It’s excellent software, but don’t give them your money, because they’ll send it to fascists.
Ugh it’s going to be a pain to stop using Google, but it’s time. Long gone are the days of “don’t be evil”
If you’re interested in a self-hosted alternative, I can highly recommend immich. The UI is clean and fast (relative to Photoprism), has android and iOS apps, auto phone->server uploading, sharable albums, and more features. I don’t know anyone that has been disappointed after switching, and I see why
The biggest pain if you want to set it up is starting your home server if you don’t already have one. Otherwise I found setting up immich itself on a server pretty easy
Long time PhotoPrism user here, really curious what you find slow or unclean about it? Maybe I should switch.
I primarily found that when importing photos, it would take Photoprism a long time to generate thumbnails. It was long enough that I would give up on trying to sort through the photos after uploading and come back a few hours later
Alternatively with Immich, I dumped ~100 Halloween photos taken with my phone and DSLR onto the server. They were already previewable by the time the files were done uploading
I’ve already uninstalled Photoprism so I couldn’t tell you what my config was. Could have required more tuning; but I’m at a point in life where I’m leaning towards needing things to “just work”, than to have to tune things
Re: Unclean: IIRC, Photoprism gives you a lot of tools and options. More options and features = more stuff on your screen = a more cluttered UI. While I did like the tools, it also made it difficult to share with normies
The only problem with Immich is that it’s a fascism-supporting FUTO project. It’s excellent software, but don’t give them your money, because they’ll send it to fascists.
https://drewdevault.com/blog/Whats-up-with-FUTO/
Do you have an alternative? critique without alternatives is not helpful.
They’ve already been posted by others. No point in duplication.
Don’t be lazy, enlightenment is more than half the battle, done for you.