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Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

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Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

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Post by jdthedisciple »

davidodio wrote: post #27
jacques-noris wrote: post #6

I’m looking exactly for something like that. But 2.99 Euro a month is too expensive, when even Apple only wants 99 cents.

Honestly, everyone can do what they want with their money but working in tech and being on a site like this and seeing this comment makes me really sad We all want cool things, secure, where our data is protected and we are not the product, but 3 euros a month is too much? No wonder big tech gets bigger and the rich get richer. The silicon valley VC funded feifdoms become more entrenched and, in the end, we all suffe…

I agree.

Over a 10 year horizon, the difference between 1€/m and 3€/m is a mere 240€.

That's like 2-5 extra work hours over the course of 10 years!

I seriously don't get how someone working in tech would fear bankruptcy over this.

Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

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Post by kosolam »

vishnumohandas wrote: post #32

Hey, Ente's CEO here. We had opensourced our server[1] yesterday, which is perhaps why we are on the front page. Stoked to be here Ente had launched on HN[2] a while ago and has been sustainably growing since. We took the feedback from our Show HN seriously and have since - undergone a cryptography audit [3] - published our replication strategy [4] - added requested features (family plans, collaborative albums and li…

Do you provide an easy migration from google photos with full quality? The instructions in the FAQ are a bit vague. Last time I heard about this, Google takeout won’t let you download the full quality images.

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Post by KoftaBob »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #15

I want a self hosted photo backup service for family that doesn't need 4gb ram. I do not need heavy transcoding or stuff. Just a place for people to dump their photos on. I have looked at some alternatives but they are all resource hungry from respective docs. If pixelfed can run on php and limited resources , why not some google photos alternative? Is there something lightweight that let's multiple people to share t…

Most lightweight one I've found so far: https://photoview.github.io/

Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

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Post by vishnumohandas »

arendtio wrote: post #60
vishnumohandas wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, are there any specific features in Photoprism that you liked better?

It has been a while and Ente probably progressed too, but I remember that I looked multiple times at Ente. However, one feature that I love about PhotoPrism is the performance. I have about 120.000 pictures on my Raspberry Pi and for the most part, the experience is flued (just try opening a picture and hold the right arrow key on your keyboard (just try it in the demo)). I have had local solutions that had problems…

Thank you for sharing the demo, it was simple to experience the product. This is a reminder for us to provide one as well :)

Ente now has everything except cross-platform face-recognition (it's desktop only right now), labels and EXIF edits. The first two are being worked on, we should have v1s ready by Q3. Polishing will take a bit longer.

The long-press-to-skim-through albums is very neat, will add this.

Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

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Post by therealmarv »

Ente Auth https://auth.ente.io/ was my go to choice for migrating from Authy. It supports importing and exporting (so no dead end unlike Authy) and I can see the second factor on my desktop without reaching my phone (through Ente Auth website).

I've exported from a rooted phone from Authy->Aegis->Ente Auth.

I have no need for their main product but they are building amazing software!

Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

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Post by joking »

robertwt7 wrote: post #25

The best decision for me is still to buy synology and store everything locally on Synology photos. No subscription, expandable storage, and full privacy. It is 100% worth the extra $ if you plan on subscribing for a loong time anyway

It’s what I have, the only drawback I have is that if you want to free space on your device (at least on iOS) you have to delete photos and those are not available through the image picker in iOS anymore. It’s really a fault from iOS not having the option to select a image manager different from iOS photo app.

I actually have 2 backups, google photos low quality backup, and the synology one.

Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

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Post by ikari_pl »

mavamaarten wrote: post #30
bovem wrote: post #8

The UI looks great. Couldn't find any info about self hosting but I did find a feature request in GitHub Issues [1]. I guess I'll stick with Immich [2] for now. Edit: Found a Reddit AMA [3] from the CEO and I'm happy to know that self hosting is a goal in the long run. [1] https://github.com/ente-io/ente/issues/141 [2] https://immich.app/ [3] https://old.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/116fx9v/ama_im_vi...

I'm really happy with immich. It's amazing how well everything works and how feature-complete it is given how relatively young the project is and fast-moving development is going. I self-host an instance and do a nightly backup with duplicati to cloud storage. The only downside for me is that there's a new release almost every couple of days, with a message that the backend is out of date. Which is both a pro and a c…

does it, by any chance, do search by any keywords and grouping the same face together, like Google Photos?

Re: Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

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Post by mnvrth »

reacharavindh wrote: post #28

Does it do background sync on iOS?. There are so many alternatives to Apple Photos, all with this handicap. “Leave the app open for it to sync” Photos are the only reason I pay for the 2 TB plan on iCloud. I don’t need all the photos on device all the time. If I can _reliably_ stash them in remote servers and have a way to access them on-demand on the phone, I can take the money I give Apple and pay for the app that…

Yes, the app does iOS background sync. Many of us (I'm part of the Ente team) are avid users and have a huge photo libraries, and day-to-day, it works seamlessly. We don't need to reopen for it to sync etc. The only time one needs special care is when doing the initial import - at that time, we sometimes need to keep the app running in the foreground for the initial sync to complete.

As the other commenters are mentioning though, this is all black magic at the mercy of Apple. The way we've evolved with our code works now, but who knows what future updates to iOS bring. One thing we've observed that it takes sometimes like say seven days for Apple's on device ML to pick up that the user really wants to use the app, and convince the OS to allow the app to run in the background to sync. But again, this is not something we've needed to worry about as _users_ - we just use it normally as we'd use Apple Photos, and it just works after the initial sync completes.

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