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Photobucket vs Immich: catalog facts
Photobucket	Immich
Freemium Free tier available, with paid plans for more storage and features.	Free Free to use with every feature; the project states nothing will be put behind a paywall…
Web	Self-hosted, Web, Android, iOS
Private group sharing of photos and videos Phone photo backup into albums	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
Photos are stored on the provider's servers Closed source hosted service	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
Hosted service	Self-hosted, Web application, Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: AGPL-3.0
Account needed	Account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026

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