PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.photoprism.app&#x2F;features" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.photoprism.app&#x2F;features</a> for Community (free) and Essentials (EUR2.00&#x2F;month):<p>&gt; User Management<p>&gt; Account Roles: Super Admin, Admin<p>So unless I switch to the &gt;=EUR6.00&#x2F;month Plus plan I cannot add a non admin user? So my grandma gets admin privileges? Is that not a blocker for a lot of families?<p>Edit: From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.photoprism.app&#x2F;plus&#x2F;kb&#x2F;multi-user" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.photoprism.app&#x2F;plus&#x2F;kb&#x2F;multi-user</a><p>&gt; PhotoPrism® Plus includes advanced multi-user functionality and additional account roles. These roles are intended for situations where you want other people to have access to your library, such as giving family members access to your pictures without granting write permissions or exposing private content.<p>&gt; It is recommended to set up additional instances if you have multiple users in a family, so that everyone can manage their own files independently. This way you can avoid problems with conflicting library settings, file permissions, and dealing with duplicates.<p>So you&#x27;re actually supposed to run an instance per person it seems. But still, then my grandma would still be an admin. I <i>think</i> I&#x27;d like to about that.

Can it remove duplicates? That’s the holy grail along with storing my images. I’ve got so many damn photos, and I want to reduce the total amount I have but going through them is so daunting I’ll never do it without a computer-assisted organizer.

I have tried to install this from source but it&#x27;s quite difficult. I don&#x27;t like deploying opaque docker images.

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 deployed this recently and added a bunch of pictures to it. PhotoPrism prominently features an AI-generated (?) &#x27;description&#x27; on each photo, but for 98% of my photos, it was unable to come up with any description. The install procedure is needlessly complicated, there&#x27;s no good reason for an app like this to require docker.<p>Overall, I was underwhelmed

This is a similar project but fully open source (and probably less mature). The lead dev is very active and responsive. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;immich.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;immich.app&#x2F;</a>

I looked at a bunch of these 2 years ago and ended up using PhotoView for a private gallery. It had the right mix of simplicity and features, and I was actually able to get it running.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;photoview&#x2F;photoview">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;photoview&#x2F;photoview</a>

This seems to be light on the details for the p2p &#x2F; decentralized part. Anyone have more details? Does this use DHT or a blockchain or how are they doing that?

I&#x27;m surprised nobody has pointed out how terrible its selling feature - its AI - is. I tested it out and it was practically useless at classifying my images. Simple things like an obvious image of a cat it misses tagging as a cat so it isn&#x27;t searchable.<p>Did I conceivably mess up the setup or is this other&#x27;s experience as well?<p>Google photos AI is so far ahead of Photoprism it isn&#x27;t even a contest unfortunately. Which sucks because I am more than willing to pay for a viable alternative (still looking...).

It looks interesting; I might be in their target group.<p>But after ten minutes of browsing around, I still have some open questions regarding privacy. What would I have to do to have an absolutely, unequivocally local-only install? Can I even do that? Which features would I need to disable? Especially anything related to AI and classification raises red flags in that regard.<p>While it is apparent that they&#x27;ve given a lot of thought to privacy and while their privacy policy is definitely one of the better ones I have seen, it still conflates things such as website access with usage of the tool itself.<p>It would be nice to have one clear, guiding document that outlines how private a private install really is.

Also check out PiGallery for a more light weight solution <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bpatrik&#x2F;pigallery2">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bpatrik&#x2F;pigallery2</a> (with less features of course, but it may work if you only want an online gallery)

I am extremely happy with my photoprism setup. I tried to degoogle my life and found their docker setup to be great.<p>I use FolderSync on my android phone to copy any pictures I take to my photoprism WebDAV

For family photos shared on the LAN I use <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bpatrik&#x2F;pigallery2">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;bpatrik&#x2F;pigallery2</a> It is simple and FAST. I do the face recognition on Digikam.

I gave this a shot a while ago and it looked promising. I particularly like the ability to identify pictures, something that Google Photos seems to be slipping on. (*)<p>The deal breaker for me was that there was no way to share the entire inventory of my photos without providing admin access. Does anyone know if that feature has been provided?<p>(*) I used to be able to find some pictures using simple keywords like &quot;dog&quot; but Google finds far fewer pictures with those keywords any more. OTOH, it is amusing to see the interpretation of some of my photos in Photoprism, but I suspect that will get better with time.

Am I the only one who is amazed by this technology?<p>&gt; Please don&#x27;t upload photos containing offensive content. Uploads that may contain such images will be rejected automatically.<p>&gt; Non-photographic and low-quality images require a review before they appear in search results.<p>How does it know what is &quot;offensive&quot;? Is this configurable? I don&#x27;t want to upload photos of people (for obvious reasons) but other than that, does it even know the contents of a photo to tell if a photo is offensive?<p>Is a photo of a shelf at a grocery story selling beer offensive?<p>Is a photo of ice on the sidewalk offensive?<p>Or is it just about human nudity and porn?

Haha I saw a few hours ago immich on top of HN, wanted to tell everybody I&#x27;m using photoprism + syncthing for quite a long time now and I see that photoprism made it to the top , well, good !

I&#x27;ve been using Photoprism for perhaps 18 months, primarily as a basic way to categorize and browse my photos. Not a power user by any means but I found it easy to use and upgrade over time. I had a couple small issues like image deletion and easy sync to s3, which may have been addressed in recent builds. I actually need to get back into it to upload my recent summer vacation pics. Overall I was a happy user and the tool met my needs for a photo catalog that I control and run locally.

Anyone also used Synology Photos and able to compare it&#x27;s functionality to this? Which is better?

Having it running is more complex than to be put as: All you need is a Web browser and Docker... This makes it sound like average users make use of Docker everyday.

Somewhat related: anyone knows a service&#x2F;tool which creates short movies like an iphone does automatically?<p>I have a nas to which I automatically upload all my phone and DSLR photos&#x2F;videos. I&#x27;d love to see automatic montages every not and then with some animations&#x2F;music etc. without having to do them myself...

I&#x27;ve tried a couple of self-hosted solutions to accompany my use of Google Photos in case Google ever decides to pull a stunt with Photos.<p>Nextcloud was basic, but serviceable. I liked that it handled docs, contact sync, etc. The sync was clumsy and I found updates frequently broke the system.<p>I just tried PhotoPrism with my ~75GB photo directory. The classification is.. decent and all run locally. It took around a full 24 hours to index and classify my photos, which it did reasonably well. Google Photos&#x27; classifications is miles better to be sure, but PhotoPrism was easy to set up and works pretty well.<p>I no longer expose any of my services outside my local network (besides Wireguard) so I&#x27;m hoping to find a Photosync system that will only upload when on my home wifi and charging. Any suggestions there?

I tried this about a year ago and it was alright. I wanted to like Photonix, as it was a python library and I expected would be easier to hack, but I couldn&#x27;t lie to myself. PhotoPrism is very clearly and very obviously the most mature of the available projects for this.

I use this but would love something that’s better at tagging content and face recognition. Photoprism misses the mark often, and it’s also not very easy to fix mistakes.<p>Edit: for example, just yesterday I uploaded ~30 photos of my girlfriend. It recognized her in one photo and didn’t even identify her face as a face in the rest.<p>I also don’t understand what’s doing the processing for the facial recognition. Is my cpu doing it or is an external service doing it?

I asked in a chat for prism a while back but there was no interest, I would like something self hosted like this that works on zip files.<p>I have a large collection of google photos &quot;takeout&quot; zip files. I dont need to unzip them but I would like a photo app to view them.<p>They are stored on a server where i can run docker not &quot;locally&quot;.<p>Does anyone have a recommendation?<p>&quot;Thanks&quot;

I run a little Photoprism instance on my NAS as a self-hosted complement to Google Photos.<p>It&#x27;s a... passable alternative to Google Photos. I downloaded it beforee they started advertising AI and decentralized features - I&#x27;m kind of surprised they took this marketing direction.

I ran an instance of this for about a year. It is super cool and pretty easy to manage. It was more than I needed - I was using it as just a photo backup and then a way to share photo collections with people - and pretty expensive to run on digital ocean.

THANK YOU! I was going to build something like this because I so so need it.

Has anybody tried using this on a large (500k+) photo collection?

Last time I tried, it did not have a good android app working.

do not leave upload public-open for even minutes

Stopped reading after &quot;AI powered&quot;, no thank you.