Immich is a self-hosted photo and video backup solution — Google Photos experience on your own server.
What You Get for Free
- Auto backup — mobile app auto-uploads photos and videos
- ML features — face recognition, object detection, CLIP search
- Timeline — scroll through photos by date
- Albums — create and share albums with links
- Maps — view photos on a map by GPS location
- Search — search by face, object, location, date
- Partner sharing — share libraries with family
- External libraries — index existing photo folders
- Mobile apps — iOS and Android with background backup
- RAW support — view and manage RAW photo files
Quick Start
# docker-compose.yml from immich docs
docker compose up -d
# Open http://localhost:2283
# Install mobile app → point to your server → enable auto-backup
Why Developers Switch from Google Photos
Google Photos has a 15GB limit and uses your data for training:
- Unlimited storage — limited only by your disk
- Privacy — your photos never leave your server
- No compression — store originals, not compressed copies
- ML on-device — face recognition runs locally
A family hit Google Photos' 15GB limit and faced $3/month for 100GB. After Immich on a $10/month VPS with 1TB: unlimited photos, same mobile experience, faces and search work, complete privacy.
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