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I haven't used this, but it seems it has AI photo recognition stuff.

So you can search for "fish" for example and it will show photos of fish.

And apparently it has facial recognition, so you can find photos of a specific person by name.

These are killer features of Google photos for me, so it is exciting to see them in a self hosted, open source offering.

There is a demo linked on the GitHub page that I checked out:

https://demo.immich.app/

Nextcloud has face recognition iirc as well.

Oh cool, thanks. I meant to add that in my comment; It's probably not far off a decade since I looked at nextcloud, so my impression is very out of date!

does nextcloud support livephotos from iOS?

Nextcloud is built for generic files, so you'll not get all the "smart optimizations" for images. Immich is intelligent enough to serve you a decent enough compressed image at first, and load the full image in background while you start to stare at it. On the other hand, Nextcloud will show you a loading banner.

Immich also does use CLIP to cluster similar faces and so on. Not only that, geotagging, camera details etc.

Performance is a big one, nextcloud is really slow.