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Immich vs LibrePhotos: catalog facts
Immich	LibrePhotos
Free Free to use with every feature; the project states nothing will be put behind a paywall…	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Self-hosted, Web, Android, iOS	Self-hosted, Web
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	Face recognition you train by labelling a few photos Automatic event albums with generated titles
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	The project describes itself as in early stages Machine learning features need real CPU and memory
Self-hosted, Web application, Downloadable app	Self-hosted, Web application
Open source	Open source
License: AGPL-3.0	License: MIT
Account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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