Pho

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A phone app that backs up and views photos directly on your own storage over SMB, WebDAV or NFS, without running a server.

Adopt it when

You have a NAS and want simple phone photo backup without hosting Immich.

Watch out

The open-source build is Android-only and limited; full features are in the paid Pro app.

Ready for

Usable

Runs as

Mobile app

Built with

Dart, Flutter and Go

How established

Established: started 3 years ago, latest release v1.5.1.

What the license allows

Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Pho → SDK → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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