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Piwigo is more like a shared gallery. Users create album/folders and upload individual photos, which other users can access. Piwigo has poor support for videos and no support for Live Photos.
Photoprism has only a single user for the free tier. It supports Live Photos and videos, and individual photo uploads. It does facial recognition tagging.
Immich supports video/Live Photos, facial recognition, and has multiple users, but it expects a full backup/synchronization (not individual photos). Sharing between users is manual, not automatic or permissions-based like Piwigo. Each user has access only to their own backups or shared albums.
In summary, I think Piwigo is the simplest to set up and use, but it doesn’t do much beyond photos - it’s a simple shared gallery. Photoprism is good and stable, but you have to pay a subscription for multiple user accounts. Immich is rapidly developing, which means things will break, but also it has the most features. My only issue with Immich is that I don’t want to use it as a backup - only as a “best of” shared gallery. While it’s possible with Immich, I would have to maintain an Immich album on my phone, and sync only that, and I would have to set up shares with other users manually.
Thanks for the detailed writeup, I think I understood it properly now!
Crazy that you have to pay for PhotoPrism to have more users!
Maybe they add these features you want to Immich? Given that it's still in development.
Yeah the multiuser thing is a big deal for me now. Photoprism is okay but just the fact that there's a paid version irks me.
Yeah I wanted to selfhost photoprism soon but now I have to reconsider that.
I have an instance that runs half stably on an old PC. I will upgrade to an old server and then move to immich.
I would probably do a one-time purchase but I don’t do subscriptions.