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Photos alternative with good recognition / search? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 3 days ago by JustOneMoreCat@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Slowly but surely trying to de google my life, but Google Photos is a hard one. I have a kid and seven pets, and I've come to rely on Google Photo's search abilities to actually find anything I want to see in the hot mess of disorganized photos.

I tried a trial of Ente and filled it up to the free limit with pics. It was able to recognize my toddler in THREE photos, no one else. I don't know how many or which photos are backed up because it doesn't seem to show them separate from my un-backed up ones. It doesn't learn to recognize pets as far as I can tell.

I'm too tired to learn to self host just to use Immich, even though I've heard good things, ha.

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's a bit unfortunate that there are options for tagging photos automatically and even on-device (Ente is a third, which will run on your local phone or any synced device, propagating data across other devices)... But nothing that runs exclusively on-device without syncing.

There's no apparent reason an app couldn't do the tagging on-device to device-exclusive photos.

[–] ueeu@social.vivaldi.net 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] LWD@lemm.ee 1 points 21 hours ago

That looks like a really interesting project, but the scope appears to be outside of what I was looking for. I think people here are looking for something more like Google Photos or Ente, something that operates more like a gallery app with extra features on top.