Hi,

I’m trying to find a way to have my iPhone’s photos be automatically (or even manually) backed up/synced with my home server.

I heard about photo prism here and got it up and running, however I could not find a free app that lets you sync. Photo sync is their main recommendation and it puts high quality photo backup behind premium.

Is there any solution that lets you backup your photos through home wifi?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: thanks to the suggestions, I found this handy chart listing many and comparing them: https://meichthys.github.io/foss_photo_libraries/

  • @ilmagicoEnglish
    1•18 hours ago

    And you don’t have your notification bar on the phone full of upload errors?

    I get a bunch of upload errors for photos that I delete or move before nextcloud has a chance to upload them, those are safe to ignore. Not sure which errors you’re getting…

    Can you get to older photos in under an hour, while Nextcloud slowly loads one thumbnail per second?

    Forget about the plain nextcloud photos app, use the Memories app (incl. the android app).

    Not as good as immich, from what I understand, but if you already have nextcloud, or need more than just photos, it works well.

    It is really unbeleviable how there are some people for whom Nextcloud just works, and the rest of us.

    It’s definitely not perfect, but since I was able to set it up to work well for me, I’m keeping it, at least until I have time to install immich and figure out how to sync the two (and maybe get a more powerful server to use its ML features). I’m currently running it off of a decade old chromebox …