Chosing the right photo app for my family

So, Immich vs Ente, this is my last piece of the selfhosted puzzle. Please help me make an informed decision:

Immich

on the plus side, it seems to have more features and it has a gazillion integrations with other selfhosted software. Downside: breaking changes are fairly common AFAIK.

Ente

looks like the opposite, more mature, scoped and less integrated.

Am I reading this right? Am I missing something?

Edit: Thanks everyone, I’m going with immich!

  • 7U5K3N@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I just moved from v2 immich to v3.

    Literally changed the version in my env file and then deleted all docker images.

    I then pulled all images and brought all containers online.

    0 issues.

    Immich has been running really well for us on my n100 for 10 months now. I did dual Google photos and immich for a 3 months and then exported out from gphotos.

    I started 2026 with immich only. Been rock solid the entire time.

    Of course that’s all anecdotal and ymmv. But immich is fantastic

  • litchralee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Downside: breaking changes are fairly common AFAIK.

    By my extremely cursory reading, this stopped being a problem after the v2.0.0 release, when they adopted semantic versioning. According, breaking changes would only occur when the major version number is rolled. And version v3.0.0 was just released 5 days ago, whereas v2.0.0 was released in October 2025.

    It may be down to taste, but I view 9 months as being acceptable, given the breadth of features offered and the folks willing to put effort into the project.

    • warmaster@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, not too bad, but not exactly great either. Do they backport fixes? Do they maintain something like an LTS release?