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Ente Photos vs Immich: catalog facts
Ente Photos	Immich
Freemium A small free tier is available. Paid plans add storage; self-hosting is free.	Free Free to use with every feature; the project states nothing will be put behind a paywall…
Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, Web, Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Web, Android, iOS
End-to-end encrypted with on-device face and object search Open source clients and server, so self-hosting is a real option	Automatic background backup from Android and iOS with selective album backup, album sync and Free Up Space to… Search by metadata, objects, faces and CLIP; facial recognition and clustering; reverse geocoding and a global map
Free storage is small; real use needs a paid plan or self-hosting On-device indexing is slow on older phones	Server needs Docker with at least 6 GB RAM and 2 CPU cores (8 GB and 4 cores… The Postgres database must not sit on NTFS, exFAT or a network share and should use local SSD
Downloadable app, Hosted service, Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Web application, Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: AGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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