Emotional value of the bytes you don't own

I'm the author of PhotoStructure. I started working on it to clean up the digital mess I had accumulated due to failed/cancelled photo management software, not to replace Google Photos:

https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/

Since then, I've been working on improving deduplication, scaling to very large libraries, and whittling away at the feature list my users and I collaborate on. I keep detailed release notes here: https://photostructure.com/about/release-notes/

Replacing at least the organization and sharing aspects of Google Photos is now my top priority. Improving search (with geo and faces and ML object labelling) is my next.