Amazon Photos vs Ente
Amazon Photos and Ente are both photo management software. Amazon Photos is a commercial product from Amazon. Ente is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 30k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Amazon Photos when
- You already pay for Prime and want a free backup of your photo library alongside another service.
- Pick Ente when
- You want a Google Photos alternative where the provider cannot see your photos.
Side by side
Photo backup with unlimited full-resolution photo storage for Amazon Prime members and 5 GB for video.
End-to-end encrypted cloud apps, mainly Ente Photos and the Ente Auth two-factor authenticator, available as a paid hosted service or self-hosted.
Video storage is limited, search and editing lag behind Google Photos, and the benefit ends if Prime ends.
Encryption limits server-side features, and lost keys mean lost data; hosted storage is a paid subscription.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, mobile app and desktop app
Cloud service, self-hosted server, mobile app and desktop app
Not published
Dart, Flutter, TypeScript, Go and Rust
Closed source, sold by Amazon
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
No Wikipedia article of its own
30k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release photos-v1.3.68.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.