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This is a similar project but fully open source (and probably less mature). The lead dev is very active and responsive. https://immich.app/

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PhotoPrism is under AGPL, how is that not fully open source?

https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/blob/develop/LICENS...

https://opensource.org/license/agpl-v3/

I believe OP meant some features of PhotoPrism is paid.

Maybe that's what they meant. If so, they are confused about what open source means.

Selling open source or free software is fine.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html

So all their features are open-source?

yes. there's at least 2 different ios apps, and one of those might not be (from another dev)

It is fully opensource, the opensource code contains also the logic to verify a serial key that you will be given if you purchase the license and if verification succeeds the code will enable the extra features.

As such you could fork it, tweak the code around the license verification to always return TRUE or whatever, and you would be running a "pro version" of the software.

The developer simply trusts that people who like the software will purchase a license, or the fact that the majority of people out there are not programmers and would not be able to rebuild the software for themselves. Besides, the product is also offered as a SaaS.

AFAIK PhotoPrism itself is open source, but the PhotoSync tool that they suggest for syncing your photos to it is not.

for those looking for an open source way to sync photos, syncthing has an android app that works well. While it is 'always running' on my android phone, I love how as soon as I arrive home it connects to wifi and moves any new photos to my home linux box (which is also running syncthing).

Does immich support S3 storage and multiple users? These are the two features I miss in most of theses projects, don’t really care about the AI stuff

Multiple users? Yes. As for s3, natively, no but you can always mount s3 as a directory and point the app to use that directory.

Having used both I can say that PhotoPrism runs MUCH more stable and surprisingly smooth. Immich constantly breaks.

Immich is very much alpha, that's why there are warning banners all over their docs. But at least it's in development - the single PhotoPrism dev rarely accepts PRs, so it hasn't had significant new features in ages

that demo site looks very promising, the feature set is really quite exhaustive already at such early development stage; comes closest to full blown google photos self hosted replacement.

would be cool if also had dynamic shared albums as google photos has with facial recognition

Thanks for sharing. Its Design looks relatively more clean.

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