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PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Post by gigatexal »

jsmith99 wrote: post #2

Some features are only in the paid version which is fair enough, but when I tried it a few months ago there was a small but permanently visible message on the app reminding me this was the free version. That was annoying.

If I am going to host something myself and not pay i'd like to do so without a "this is the free version" reminder all the time. At that point I'll just keep paying for my Apple One subscription.

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Post by Bishonen88 »

Somewhat related: anyone knows a service/tool which creates short movies like an iphone does automatically?

I have a nas to which I automatically upload all my phone and DSLR photos/videos. I'd love to see automatic montages every not and then with some animations/music etc. without having to do them myself...

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Post by giamma »

gigatexal wrote: post #3
jsmith99 wrote: post #2

Some features are only in the paid version which is fair enough, but when I tried it a few months ago there was a small but permanently visible message on the app reminding me this was the free version. That was annoying.

If I am going to host something myself and not pay i'd like to do so without a "this is the free version" reminder all the time. At that point I'll just keep paying for my Apple One subscription.

It's opensource and AGPL, as long as you do not redistribute it I believe you can fork it and rebuild it.

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Post by buzzy_hacker »

jsmith99 wrote: post #2

Some features are only in the paid version which is fair enough, but when I tried it a few months ago there was a small but permanently visible message on the app reminding me this was the free version. That was annoying.

I’m curious how this works with AGPL. Do they not have to release the source of the paid version?

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Post by tedtms »

secfirstmd wrote: post #5

Anyone also used Synology Photos and able to compare it's functionality to this? Which is better?

I used PhotoPrism some time ago when it was slightly less featured, but wasn't satisfied with it. The dealbreaker for me is auto mobile backup. PhotoPrism relies on a third party app to "sync" photos, which isn't the same as backing them up. With that said, PhotoPrism is all the rage in the self-hosting community and I can definitely see why.

Conversely, Synology Photos (which I use instead now) has a fantastic mobile app. However, if you really want reliable and granular object/face recognition, the Syno app is a little bare bones. It does some face recog but that's really it. However, its backup feature is reliable and I don't have to worry about if it's working in the background or not. I tried Nextcloud's photo plugin for a while too, but its mobile app had issues and I just couldn't rely on it.

Another project I've been keeping my eye on is immich: https://github.com/immich-app/immich

I'm happy for now with Syno Photos but it would be nice to have my photo app in my container environment with everything else I run and just use the NAS for media storage like I intended to.

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