Ente Photos
Open-source, end-to-end encrypted backup and sharing for photos and videos, multi-platform sync, original quality preservation, privacy-first design, collaborative albums, family sharing, secure external sharing, robust data replication, and device imports.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Flathub
- F-Droid
- Flatpak
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- Encrypted Photo Storage
- End-to-End Encryption
- Ad-free
- Cloud Sync
- Shared Folders
- Encrypted Backup
- No Tracking
- Two-factor Authentication
- Automatic Backup
- Dark Mode
- Built-in viewer
- Geotagged Photos
- Selective Synchronization
- Facial Recognition
- Passkey Support
- RAW Photo Editors
- Works Offline
- Real time collaboration
- Custom Domain
- Batch Editing
- File Tagging
- AES-256 Encryption
- No Logs
- Tagging
Tags
- Encrypted
- photo-storage
- photos
- selfhosted
- photo-cloud-storage
- photo-backup
Ente Photos News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about Google Photos
Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photosOver the last few weeks I have been trying to find a comfortable middle ground between the convenie...
- Fla published news article about Ente Photos
Ente adds interactive Trip layout with map and timeline for photo albumsEnte now offers the Trip layout, allowing users to share albums where photos are displayed on an in...
- POX published news article about Ente Photos
Ente Photos now lets users embed public albums on external websites, with auto updatesEnte, the open source, end-to-end encrypted photo storage platform, now allows users to embed publi...
Recent activities
- TDOMAX rated Ente Photos
- POX updated Ente Photos
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What is Ente Photos?
ente is a simple app to backup and share your photos and videos.
If you've been looking for a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Photos / iCloud Photos, you've come to the right place. With ente, they are stored end-to-end encrypted (e2ee). This means that only you can view them.
We have open-source apps across Android, iOS, web and desktop, and your photos will seamlessly sync between all of them in an end-to-end encrypted (e2ee) manner.
ente also makes it simple to share your albums with your loved ones, even if they aren't on ente. You can share publicly viewable links, where they can view your album and collaborate by adding photos to it, even without an account or app.
Your encrypted data is replicated to 3 different locations, including a fall-out shelter in Paris. We take posterity seriously and make it easy to ensure that your memories outlive you.
We are here to make the safest photos app ever, come join our journey!
FEATURES
- Original quality backups, because every pixel is important
- Family plans, so you can share storage with your family
- Collaborative albums, so you can pool together photos after a trip
- Shared folders, in case you want your partner to enjoy your "Camera" clicks
- Album links, that can be protected with a password
- Ability to free up space, by removing files that have been safely backed up
- Human support, because you're worth it
- Descriptions, so you can caption your memories and find them easily
- Image editor, to add finishing touches
- Favorite, hide and relive your memories, for they are precious
- One-click import from Google, Apple, your hard drive and more
- Dark theme, because your photos look good in it
- 2FA, 3FA, biometric auth
- and a LOT more!
PRICING We don't offer forever free plans, because it is important to us that we remain sustainable and withstand the test of time. Instead we offer affordable plans that you can freely share with your family. You can find more information at ente.io.
SUPPORT We take pride in offering human support. If you are our paid customer, you can reach out to team@ente.io and expect a response from our team within 24 hours.
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Ente Photos information
Developed by
Ente Technologies, Inc. Licensing
Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $3 and $24 per month + free version with limited functionality.Rating
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Comments and Reviews
One of the best google Photos alternative, It even has Family Plans 🤩. It also encrypts the metadata, while allowing to search through the metadata to find your photos.
You can't edit the order of photos within an album.
I'm totally satisfied. Privacy has been the reason I never used Google Photos, despite the unlimited storage (back then). Ente's user-friendliness means my family can use it too without much hassle.
Really, the greatest photo storage you can get.
Its simply the best, especially if privacy is important, and it should be when we consider how big tech own our photos (or think they should). The only fault I find to when I need to copy a photo and paste it into another applicatio, say, an email. I find I have to download the image and open in another photo app then copy/ paste it. There must be a better way, I've not found it. However this is a small matter compared to everything else. Recently I got my nwife to switch from Apple to a degoogled android. Ente made it simple to get all her photos off iPhone onto her new android. I wish I'd know about ente when I dumped iPhone, I lost a lot of images.
E2EE Photos backup with a beautiful UI, what do you need except that?
I really like where Ente is going. It's open source, end-to-end encrypted, audited, and self-hostable, but at the same time has a clean UI, fairly priced centrally hosted cloud storage (across multiple servers), and incredible cross-platform support (across mobile, desktop, and web). It even has quite decent on-device machine learning (face and concept identification) and geotagging. It has basic image editing support. The team behind it seems friendly and transparent. I heartily approve and am excited to see what comes next!