Ente Photos backs up your phone's photos to a server you host and keeps the library end-to-end encrypted. One quickstart script starts the server, web app, Postgres and object storage in Docker.
How Ente Photos stacks up against other photos apps. Add or remove apps to change the comparison.
| Requirement | Ente Photos | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free + Paid | Free | Free + Paid | Free |
| Web UI | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Architecture | x86 + ARM | x86 + ARM | x86 + ARM | x86 + ARM |
| Min hardware | 1 core · 1 GB RAM | 2 cores · 6 GB RAM | 2 cores · 3 GB RAM | 2 cores · 4 GB RAM · 10 GB |
| Containers | Worth checking: 5Plus Web app, Postgres, Object storage, socat | Worth checking: 4Plus Machine learning, Valkey, Postgres | 2Plus MariaDB | 1The app alone |
| Database | Postgres | Postgres | MariaDB | PostgreSQL |
| Runtime | Go | Node | Go | Python |
| Docker | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Linux package | – | – | Yes | – |
| Windows | – | – | – | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes | – | – |
| Android | Yes | Yes | – | – |
| macOS | Yes | – | – | – |
| Windows | Yes | – | – | – |
| Linux | Yes | – | – | – |
Official client for phone and desktop.
Run the project's quickstart script on a Linux server with Docker Compose 2.30 or later. It creates a my-ente directory and starts the server, web apps, Postgres and object storage containers. Open the web app on port 3000 and create an account.
The docs ask for 1 GB of RAM and one CPU core to run the quickstart cluster, because most of the heavy work happens on the clients.
Yes. Install the Ente Photos app and connect it to your server.
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