Immich is worth the evening
What Immich does that the cloud does not, how you use it once it is running, and the install that keeps it running. One evening of setup, then a photo library you own.
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Immich, PhotoPrism or Ente: which photo library to run
Immich is the pick for most self-hosters. It is the only one of the three with official mobile apps, it searches on the server, it speaks OIDC and its backup covers the database, at a documented 6 GB minimum and an x86-64-v2 requirement that stops older hardware cold. PhotoPrism is the smaller install at 3 GB, with a PWA instead of an app. Ente is the only one where the server never holds a plaintext photo, which is why self-hosting it means building your own apps.
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