🚨 Google Photos stores every photo you've ever taken. Your face. Your family. Your location. Your entire life. On Google's servers. Someone built the replacement.
It's called Immich.
A self-hosted Google Photos alternative that runs on your own hardware. Every feature. None of the surveillance.
No Google scanning your photos. No $30/year storage subscription. No 15GB limit. No AI training on your family memories.
Here's what Immich does that Google Photos does:
→ Automatic phone backup. iOS and Android. Background sync. Like Google Photos.
→ AI face recognition. Identifies and groups people automatically. Runs locally.
→ Natural language search. Type "dog on beach" or "sunset mountains." Finds it.
→ Timeline view. Scroll through years of photos chronologically.
→ Map view. Every photo plotted on a world map by GPS data.
→ Shared albums with comments and likes. Share with family.
→ Partner sharing. Two people see each other's full libraries.
→ Duplicate detection. Finds similar photos. Asks before deleting.
Here's what Immich does that Google Photos doesn't:
→ Your photos never leave your house
→ No storage limits. Your disk. Your rules.
→ No subscription. Ever.
→ Full metadata control. Google strips EXIF data on export. Immich preserves everything.
→ You own the server. You own the data. You own the backups.
Here's the wildest part:
Search "birthday cake" and it finds every birthday photo. Search "red car" and it finds every car photo. All powered by CLIP running locally on your machine. Google-level AI search without Google seeing a single pixel.
Google One costs $30/year for 100GB. $100/year for 2TB. Over 10 years that's $300 to $1,000 paid to store your own memories on someone else's computer.
A $200 hard drive stores 2TB of photos forever. Immich runs on it for free.
95.4K GitHub stars. 5.2K forks. 9,593 commits. iOS and Android apps. Web interface.
100% Open Source.