Google Photos
Google Photos is the home for all of your photos and videos, searchable and organised by the people, places and things that matter.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Photo Manager
- Photo Sharing App
- Cloud Storage Service
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- Android
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What is Google Photos?
Google Photos is a photograph and video sharing and storage service by Google. It allows the users to store and share images and videos using the 15 GB free storage space of their Google Account or a Google One subscription. Google Photos is also able to automatically create albums and to organize images and videos thanks to an Assistant function.
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- Photo Manager
- Cloud Storage
- Photo Sharing
- Machine Learning
- Photo Album
- photos
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DesertShadow thinks PhotoPrism is an alternative to Google Photos
scottchiste Upvoted a comment on Nextcloud as an alternative to Google PhotosJust like Google Drive, Nextcloud is not a real alternative to Google Photos.
POX added Google Photos as alternative(s) to Genta.app
As title suggests above
The free* has a caveat to it. The free plan is such that google compresses its images with its propietary algorithm so you have a much smaller image file uploaded to googlephotos. The same is true with their videos as well, using the same technology they use for youtube
I personally cannot discern any difference in quality from images + videos uploaded to google photos though, so this is a minute point for me.
If you do any sort of photography work, and need high res .raw image file format backup, I would suggest using another cloud-based service dedicated specifically for that task
On terms of the actual PROS of google photos:
I've tried a lot of other solutions like
None of them are as good as google photos though
[Edited by Kagerjay, July 09]
Although Google Photos is a web based service, it is a great Picasa alternative. These are the few reasons why it replaces Picasa very well:
I used to use Picasa a lot before, but since it's been discontinued Google Photos seems like the best option. The only downside might be that it's web based so you need to upload pictures first, and that sharing to other services like Facebook is either done through a Google Photos Album or by downloading and uploading each individual picture.
Google photos is a clunky slow web interface that does not compare to Picasa It has no support for faces it wont allow you to quickly locate photos. And it has no sync option that works. Google has abandoned PC users and now only supports and carers about mobile users. Mobile users dont use a computer like laptop users do thats why all these options are missing.
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The unlimited free storage will **end ** in 1st July 2021
there is simply no setting to not upload videos to google photo. I really like the way I can share my synced photos with my partner by doing nothing. Compression is ok'ish.
Very convenient to use
the best photo manager on the cloud
Their facial recognition feature is creepy. It scans every single photo, and suddenly recommends to group photos by the individual, and the thing is it's almost always perfect. Why the app scans our photos, and suggests us to group without our consent? If the suggestion feature can be turned off, at least disable it by default.