Immich vs Ente ?
2026-07-06 01:56 UTC
Replies (17)
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@litchralee@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-06 02:08
Downside: breaking changes are fairly common AFAIK. By my extremely cursory reading, this stopped being a problem after the v2.0.0 release, when they adopted semantic versioning. According, breaking changes would only occur when the major version number is rolled. And version v3.0.0 was just released 5 days ago, whereas v2.0.0 was released in October 2025. It may be down to taste, but I view 9 months as being acceptable, given the breadth of features offered and the folks willing to put effort into the project.
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@7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-06 02:06
I just moved from v2 immich to v3. Literally changed the version in my env file and then deleted all docker images. I then pulled all images and brought all containers online. 0 issues. Immich has been running really well for us on my n100 for 10 months now. I did dual Google photos and immich for a 3 months and then exported out from gphotos. I started 2026 with immich only. Been rock solid the entire time. Of course that’s all anecdotal and ymmv. But immich is fantastic
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@BingBong@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-06 02:03
There is also photoprism although its become less popular than immich over the last year or two. What are your requirements? That would help folks give you good recommendations.
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@AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2026-07-06 03:28
I’ve been pretty happy with ente after moving from immich a year or two ago when the breaking changes were basically every time I opened the app on my phone.
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@civ@lemmy.civl.cc 2026-07-06 04:46
Admittedly I don’t know anything any Ente, but I’m extremely satisfied with Immich. Haven’t upgraded to v3 yet but will be soon
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@artyom@piefed.social 2026-07-06 04:30
The big difference is that ente is encrypted. If you use FDE, Immich is also encrypted but only at rest.
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@mereo@piefed.ca 2026-07-06 02:28
Downside: breaking changes are fairly common AFAIK. This is no longer the case after the version 2.0 release. Version 2.0 is the stable release: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/22546
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@uuj8za@piefed.social 2026-07-06 04:22
Immich Downside: breaking changes are fairly common AFAIK Uh… that’s news to me. I’ve been hosting 2 user’s photos for 1.5 years with absolutely zero breaking changes. I just updating from v2 to v3 and nothing broke. I briefly checked out Ente, but personally I have zero trust for any project that requires users to sign a CLA to contribute like Ente: https://github.com/ente/ente/pull/11084#issuecomment-4762402896 Immich doesn’t do those shenanigans: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/7023#discussioncomment-8433346 CLAs are bad because the project can change the license whenever they feel like it. So Ente is effectively reserving the right to go full evil with their CLA. Whereas Immich can’t suddenly decide they want to move away from AGPLv3. https://drewdevault.com/blog/Dont-sign-a-CLA-2/
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@groet@feddit.org 2026-07-06 06:02
My experience with ente was that it is horribly slow. It also lacks any feature to upload a large number of photos at once. I just never bothered uploading my 10k pictures I have taken over the last 15 years because it would have had to transfer them to a phone and then have the app open for a few weeks. No rclone or any other reasonable way to upload from a computer other than browser (which just doesn’t work for more than a few images)
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@surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2026-07-06 02:02
Immich released it’s first “stable” version. They mean to have fewer breaking changes and prioritize compatibility. immich.app/blog/v2.0.0-release I highly recommend.
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@mlg@lemmy.world 2026-07-06 06:17
Photoprism users every time this topic comes up
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@Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2026-07-06 06:25
Running immich since 2 years, never had a single breaking issue or instability of any kind. There is really no reason not to choose immich unless you prefer something that’s only in ente.
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@fozid@feddit.uk 2026-07-06 06:39
Can’t comment on ente. I looked at it originally along with many others and initially chose photo prism. Ran that for around 6 months then switched to immich. Have no plans on changing any time soon. I host 4 users on it. It works great, been using it over 12 months so been on it from v1, and been through all the changes to V2 and V3 and never had a breaking change. Have auto updates in in podman for it so I never manually touch it. It just works.
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@Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2026-07-06 06:43
Echoing what others have said, Immich hasn’t had breaking changes in a while. That being said it’s one of the services I keep it on a pinned version and read release notes before updating.
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@Dojan@pawb.social 2026-07-06 07:32
I use Ente, but it’s purely because I want my images backed up in the cloud, but I don’t want the server provider to be able to mess around with them. Hence the e2ee being important to me. I love Ente, I think it’s a great project, but for self-hosting, immich seems like the best choice to me.
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@lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-06 14:28
Downside: breaking changes are fairly common AFAIK. Breaking changes only come with major version changes now.
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@tiz@lemmy.ml 2026-07-07 06:34
I’ve tried both and had favored Ente for months but I eventually drifted towards Immich. The most obvious reason is that Ente isn’t optimal for self hosting. And it’s rather proof of concept to show they are committed to openness. On the other hand, Immich is built for self hosters. Ente has client side encryption. That why I initially committed in order to respect privacy of my users. So if you care about the users. Go for it.