Immich 4+

The new update allows background photo uploading, which is amazing. And on the roadmap (as of today, Feb 22, 2023) is integrating the CLIP model machine learning to do image search, which will be better than any other major current iOS photo app. Also on the roadmap is face recognition/search. Updates come extremely frequently, and every one makes this app better and better. This is quickly becoming a true google apps replacement.
To top it off, it’s all open source and runs on your own server for the backend.
Keep up the fantastic work!

This software is extremely simple to set up and can run on almost anything I’m currently using my pi4 with a USB drive and even on that limited hardware it is extremely fast. The app is set up perfectly all the menus are easy too find and use the search function is surprisingly good it’s not quite as good as the photo search tool on iOS but it still is pretty good.

Immich is definitely is something to try out and see if it works for you to organize, share, and display your own photo library. It’s fast, easy to setup using docker compose/portainer stacks. And not too bad to keep up to date. Just be sure to read the release notes!

About the app, it works similar to the web interface with a few notable differences, such as the face detection and duplication tool are not available on the app. If possible I think it can work well on a mobile device.

One bug I did find is the gifs no longer work on the iOS app. It used to before but it’s now broken. Hopefully it can resolved soon!