“Microsoft is an evil company, basically the enemy of free software, but here is why you should use their product…”

Booooo

Totally different for me:

• NC-calendar syncs two different calendars (work and private) accross all my devices.
• NC Photos with Memories organizes 2 TB of photos and has all the functions Immich has.
• NC Password Manager syncs my Passwords
• I share big files with my clients via NC and photo albums to friends and family.
• NC syncs and organizes different Input-folders for my paperless-ngx-server.
• I update NC with a small script, works every time

So it replaces at least 5 different Programs. And it’s 80 % private use, 20 % for my business. Not too big, not too clunky, just the right tool.

Wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow!

Nice try mom, but I am adulting now.

I installed the version from F-Droid-Store, Version 0.6-something. The main problem for me was, that you couldn’t download single songs, only complete albums - and I gave up on the App.

This post made me install the 0.9-beta-APK (directly from github), and it already fullfills all my wishes, you can download single songs now! And I love that you can filter for your favorites and download them all at once. Really looking forward to further process, it’s so promissing.

I guess you only use the standard Nextcloud photo app, not Memories. It is very comparable to the features you describe + if you have already set up your Nextcloud, there is no need to work with yet another software on your server.

Memories also uses automatic tagging, so searching for tent and beach would probably get you the same result. But I guess they are not using the best recognition software, I get a few missinterpretations here and there. (My marzipan potatoe with googly eyes is not an ‘Instrument’. But I guess it’s a challange for any software)

No special process, I installed Memories as admin on my Nextcloud, pointed it to my Picture-folder and my Smartphone-Uploadfolder, and made sure I had the other Apps as recommended here installed (e.g. ‘Photos’ to use albums and ‘Recognize’ for automatic face tagging)

The Memories-App on the Smartphone is also neat. And it is available on F-Droid.

My picture folder contains 1,4 TB of data, with many RAW-files and some Videos. Memories is handling that without a problem. I especially like the way it handles RAW-files, by grouping them together with the fitting JPEG.

I don’t know about how ressource heavy it is, but my server is really nothing special.

Features I like and use:

• automatic and manual people recognition
• sorting it on a map according to the geo data
• most used: Timeline, sorted by date. I barely organize my photos in folders now, because the timeline-sorting is what I want and enjoy.
• Albums to share fotos with family and friends. They don’t need a Nextcloud-Account to access them.

If you already use Nextcloud, try the Memorie-Extension. It has all the features of Immich. The tagging-feature for faces has been there for at least the year I am using it now.