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It will be very easy for the wife to use since all she has to do is put the photo files in folders using the normal operating system GUI. This is something everyone knows how to do.
Immich is quite good but in its infancy - I paused my containers, filed a bug report on the discord, and set a reminder for September because the iOS app kept crashing while uploading. If they keep focused on it - should definitely be a top contender I did not like Nextcloud but have not tried the rewrite in Go
There is also Piwigo which is open-source and can be self hosted. https://piwigo.org/
Stuff I like:
- The mobile app is quite friendly
- It supports "automatic upload" (after opening the app)
- It supports deleting pictures from the device after uploading (to save space... much needed on the wife's old iphone)
- The pictures are stored hierarchically on the filesystem
- Very lightweight (the whole docker setup uses less than 128MB of RAM)
- The web interface is "okay". It could use some modernizing.
- When there's no more space on the device, the app fails to upload new pictures, but gives no error message.
A comprehensive list comparing features https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries Personally I use Photoprism installed inside TrueNAS Scale. They don't have a good mobile app that syncs with the NAS. So might try Immich in future.
I use Synology Photos to back up to my Synology NAS in the basement: https://www.synology.com/en-global/DSM70/SynologyPhotos It has mobile apps that back up photos automatically. My wife and I each have the iOS apps running and photos just upload magically to the NAS. Viewing photos is a good experience too. I also use another Synology app to back up my photos from my NAS to AWS Glacier. Super happy I moved them from…
+1 for Synology photos. I back up automatically to my NAS, and sharing is a breeze. If you're going down the "self-hosted" path, Synology will be the answer a lot of the time. All your music and videos, etc. There's even a Google Docs-like office suite. I'm have kiwix on mine via docker and have self-hosted Wikipedia.
Install nginx. Put the photos in folders in your ~/www dir. Enable indexing. It's incredibly secure and has pretty much zero maintainence. Just link people to the http://yourIPhere/photos/ dir. It will be very easy for the wife to use since all she has to do is put the photo files in folders using the normal operating system GUI. This is something everyone knows how to do.
What you want from a photo specific software is things like thumbnails, exif info, powerful search, maybe indexing the content of the pictures (Searching for "dog") etc.
Believe it or not, Plex. It's a truly mediocre photo organizer, with glaring missing features, but because I already have a Plex server - it's zero marginal work aside from just dropping the photos in a folder on the NAS running it. I use FileBrowser to autosync the photos off my phone, and family can easily access them because they already know how to use Plex. The fact that there is a client for every device I have…