Ente – Opening Our Books

Post by KomoD » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 8:12 PM UTC

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This is one of those vanity blog posts, a “look at us, we’re open” blog posts without actual openness, or rather, limited openness where it helps their image and not openness that could backfire. Businesses don’t operate based on revenue. They operate based on profit. They operate based on operating expenses. They operate based off of free cash flow. Showing off revenue and number of accounts is showing off a tiny po…

All you saw on that page was the revenue? For a potential customer deciding whether to trust a relatively small app (compared to Google and Apple) with their memories, these are useful numbers. 50% increase in paying customers this year. Nearly half a million registered users, with a 40% growth in the last 6 months. 5% of their users are paying customers. Revenue topping a million. That's stuff I want to know if I'm…

Post by Grombobulous » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 10:18 PM UTC

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That’s not the only unique selling point. It’s a very refined and feature-complete product with e2ee. Many alternatives just don’t have feature parity…Ente has been of the few alternative apps where you can say “it has everything important Google/Apple Photos has.” It has desktop apps, which a number of alternatives don’t have. It has automated continuous plain-directory export for making your 3-2-1 backup that uses…

GP here. You make some valid points, but I was talking about the pricing of the hosted service by Ente because Ente allows self hosting too. Of course, the investment to support self hosting and to provide the apps (for free to anyone, including the self hosting crowd) matter in pricing decisions. But it still seems quite high to me.

Post by Brog_io » Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 1:53 PM UTC

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Their costs are low, being based in India.

Are they based in India? They list offices in the US, India and Netherlands and advertise that they store photos in 3 European countries...

Post by PhotoCore » Sun, Jul 26, 2026, 2:40 PM UTC

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GP here. You make some valid points, but I was talking about the pricing of the hosted service by Ente because Ente allows self hosting too. Of course, the investment to support self hosting and to provide the apps (for free to anyone, including the self hosting crowd) matter in pricing decisions. But it still seems quite high to me.

Makes sense. And yeah, it’s not the lowest price out there. I think if you do want something hosted by someone else without the hassle and time investment of self hosting, you want end to end encryption, your choices especially for something very strong on photo organization features is a pretty small selection. Something like Proton Drive is pretty weak on photo features, or you could go with iCloud photos with enha…

Post by amennox » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 9:25 AM UTC

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Is it an app or a web service? What does the app look like? What does the web service look like? >Sometimes I see this complaint for products here and I am just... confounded. I think you probably don't have as much experience with the depth and breadth of peoples comprehension of online design language as you might think you do. "Safe home for your photos" - even this is ambiguous. Photos, as in hard copy? Or digita…

> what differentiates Ente from iCloud Photos - at first (assumptive) glance, it appears redundant. I think the point is that it's an alternative clone of iCloud or Google Photos that's not from Apple or Google. For some people, it's really obvious why you would want that, but if it's not to you, I can see why it might be more confusing why it exists.