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Immich is the self-hosted Google Photos replacement — a high-performance photo and video management platform with mobile apps (iOS + Android), automatic phone backup, ML-based face recognition, object detection, smart search, and shared albums. Built for users who refuse to hand their family memories to Google.

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📝 Productivity & Business Min 4096 MB RAM Port 2283 (http) Tier pro
// What it is

A closer look.

Immich is the self-hosted Google Photos replacement — a high-performance photo and video management platform with mobile apps (iOS + Android), automatic phone backup, ML-based face recognition, object detection, smart search, and shared albums. Built for users who refuse to hand their family memories to Google.

Reached production-grade stability in 2025 with v1.x — the project that finally made "leave Google Photos" a non-painful migration.

// Use cases

What it's for.

Concrete scenarios where teams pick Immich over the SaaS alternative.

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Family photo archive

mobile auto-backup, server-side organization, browse decades of history

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Privacy-first photo storage

GDPR-compliant, on your own infrastructure, no telemetry

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Shared albums for events

weddings, vacations, school groups, without Meta / Google account

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AI search without cloud

"photos of dogs on a beach" via local CLIP model, no upload to Google

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Multi-user households

separate libraries with shared spaces

// Who it's for

Built for these teams.

If your team profile matches one of these, Immich is a strong fit out of the box.

Profile A

Privacy-conscious families

Google Photos UX without giving Google ML access to your kids' photos

Profile B

Photographers & videographers

self-hosted asset library with RAW support, fast browsing of large archives

Profile C

Households with mixed iOS + Android

single backup target both platforms hit reliably

Profile D

Journalists, activists, gov staff

source-protection workflows where US cloud storage is a non-starter

Profile E

Storage-rich self-hosters

NAS or large-disk VPS owners wanting consumer-grade UI for personal media

// Differentiators

Why teams pick Immich.

When evaluating self-hosted options for this category, here are the dimensions on which Immich consistently lands above the alternatives.

  • ✓Real mobile parity — iOS + Android native apps with auto-backup, not a half-baked web shell
  • ✓ML pipeline — face clustering, object detection, OCR, smart search via Open CLIP
  • ✓External library support — point at existing folder structures, no forced re-import
  • ✓Memories — "On this day", year reviews, photo carousels matching Google Photos UX
  • ✓Active development — weekly releases, ~50k+ GitHub stars
  • ✓AGPLv3 license — commercial use clear
// Integrations

Connects to.

The stack you'll plug Immich into — services, protocols, and adjacent apps in the BluixApps catalog.

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Native mobile apps
iOS (App Store) + Android (Play Store + F-Droid) with auto-backup
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External libraries
read-only mount of existing /photos folder structures, no import needed
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Object storage
S3-compatible backend for offloading originals (MinIO, Backblaze B2, R2, AWS S3)
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Identity
OAuth (Google, GitHub, Microsoft, Authelia, Authentik)
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Desktop sync
WebDAV protocol for any client (CyberDuck, FileZilla, native OS mounts)
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ML providers
local CLIP for object/face; optional Whisper for video transcription
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API
REST + WebSocket for custom integrations / scripts / dashboards
// Adoption & deployment

Notable users & community

  • 50k+ GitHub stars (one of the top self-host project of 2024-2025)
  • Featured constantly on r/selfhosted as "the project that made me leave Google Photos"
  • Strong Discord, active reddit, regular release cadence with public roadmap
  • Acquired by FUTO foundation (2024) — sustainable funding without compromising open-source
  • Multi-language UI maintained by community across 20+ locales

What we ship

  • Docker compose: Immich server + ML container + Postgres (with pgvecto.rs) + Redis
  • Pinned ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:v1.123.0, weekly upstream tracking
  • Storage volume at /usr/src/app/upload — sized per your VPS disk allocation
  • HTTPS via Let's Encrypt; mobile apps work via the same hostname
  • Admin user with random password on first boot
  • ML container runs CPU-friendly by default; GPU accel available on Dedicated tier
  • Backup hook covers Postgres + the upload volume (the photo originals — opt-in due to size)
// Tips & operations

Run it properly.

Operational guidance from running this in production — what to do before you scale, what to lock down, what surprises people.

// PERFORMANCE
Mobile auto-backup defaults to WiFi-only
explain to users to avoid mobile-data shock when phones backup gigabytes
// SECURITY
ML container CPU-only OK up to ~50k photos
beyond that, GPU acceleration (CUDA) becomes mandatory for tolerable face/object processing
// OPERATIONS
Use pgvecto.rs not pgvector
Immich >= 1.118 requires the pgvecto.rs Postgres extension; default Postgres image won't work
// RELIABILITY
External library = read-only mode
useful for legacy /photos archives mounted without import; doesn't risk modifying files
// DEPLOYMENT
Backup hook covers DB only by default
opt-in for the upload volume (originals can be 100s of GB; sized differently from app-state)
// SCALING
Enable HEIC transcoding
iPhone HEIC isn't browser-friendly; the ImageMagick fallback transcodes on demand if enabled
4096
// min ram (MB)
50
// min disk (GB)
2283
// access port
http
// protocol
pro
// bluixapps tier
ghcr.io/immich-app/immich-server:release · docker.io/valkey/valkey:8-bookworm · ghcr.io/immich-app/postgres:14-vectorchord0.4.3-pgvectors0.2.0
// docker image

Project resources

Official siteimmich.app ↗
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