Ente vs Immich
Ente and Immich are both photo management software. Ente is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 30k GitHub stars. Immich is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 118k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Ente when
- You want a Google Photos alternative where the provider cannot see your photos.
- Pick Immich when
- You want Google Photos-style backup and search on your own server for a household or small group.
Side by side
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.
A self-hosted photo and video library with automatic phone backup, timeline, albums, sharing, face recognition and AI search, positioned as a Google Photos replacement.
Encryption limits server-side features, and lost keys mean lost data; hosted storage is a paid subscription.
Needs a reasonably capable server and your own backup plan; the project itself warns not to treat it as your only copy.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, self-hosted server, mobile app and desktop app
Self-hosted server and mobile app
Dart, Flutter, TypeScript, Go and Rust
TypeScript, NestJS, SvelteKit, Dart and PostgreSQL
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft) (both)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes. (both)
30k GitHub stars
118k GitHub stars
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release photos-v1.3.68.
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v3.3.5.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.