The Google Photos feature of finding photos of a specific person in your collection by their face is the key feature my wife really loves. Is there a self-hosted tool (ideally Synology NAS compaible) that gives similar functionally I could have more control over how it’s using/analyzing our photos, rather than needing to trust Google with our family photos just for that feature?
Immich is pretty much a self hosted version of Google Photos. I highly recommend it. It’s under very active development. I’ve been using it for a few months now and it’s been rock solid despite all the dev on it.
I’ve been testing https://photoview.github.io running locally on docker and it’s working just fine. Face recognition works amazingly well and fast.
Nextcloud also has a photo album app with face recognition (additional app) which I’ve been meaning to try. There is also the new https://memories.gallery/ also in my list of apps to test :)
At https://github.com/photoview/photoview are also the following names as alternatives:
- Piwigo - https://github.com/Piwigo/Piwigo
- LibrePhotos - https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos
- Photoprism - https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism
- Lychee - https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee
I hope that helps :)
I’ve tried them all and came back to photoview. Face recognition along with ability to use actual folders is what brought me back.
I think Photoprism does this.
Synology’s new-ish Photos app does this, no?
Here’s a screenshot of the “People” view under albums, from their Photos Mobile app. Looks similar under the Synology app.