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Immich vs Damselfly: catalog facts
Immich	Damselfly
Free Free to use with every feature; the project states nothing will be put behind a paywall…	Free Free to use; the developer accepts donations through Buy Me a Coffee.
Self-hosted, Web, Android, iOS	Web, Self-hosted
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	Works on an existing folder-based photo collection Face, object detection and image classification built in
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	Full facial recognition depends on an Azure Face Services account Needs a server to run
Self-hosted, Web application, Downloadable app	Self-hosted
Open source	Closed source
License: AGPL-3.0	License not stated
Account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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