Alright, how do you all handle your photos? Self-hosted Immich, Hetzner Nextcloud, Ente or Zeitkapsl?
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February 7, 2026
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That’s my next project to get things from Google/Apple.
The options I’ve seen so far
* Immich: great if you can self-host, but I prefer not to, so that’s out for me
* Nextcloud on a VPS (Hetzner or others): you need E2EE to prevent the providers from seeing your photos, but then all the apps like Memories etc don’t work ( help.nextcloud.com/t/…/3 )
* Ente: has E2EE embedded, the face recognition happens on the clients. Can be self-hostable, so that gives more trust that other providers can launch their own European instances in the future.
* zeitkapsl.eu/en/ : has E2EE, but no self hostable option, so you kind of have to trust them that they implement their design (which is actually kind of nice: zeitkapsl.eu/en/e2ee-architecture/ . They have a security audit on their roadmap (announced 8 days ago: …featurebase.app/…/formal-security-audit )
Any option I am missing?
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