Processing
Self-hosted
How product activity is processed.
INDEPENDENT SOFTWARE
Immich
A high-performance open-source server for self-hosted photo and video backup, organization, search, and sharing.
- Web · Mobile · Self-hosted
- Self-hostable
- Open source
- Pricing
- Donation
- Category
- Photos and media
Privacy at a glance
A quick view of the dimensions most useful for comparing this product. Unconfirmed facts stay explicitly unconfirmed.
Identity
Organization-managed
Whether an account is needed to use it.
Tracking
Optional telemetry
Reported analytics and tracking posture.
Ownership & source
Open source
Availability of the product source code.
Offline support
Partial
Whether core use can continue offline.
Self-hosting
Yes
Whether you can run it on your own infrastructure.
What to know
Why it stands out
- Photos, videos, database services, and machine-learning components can run on infrastructure controlled by the user.
- The project is open source and provides documented controls for optional operational telemetry endpoints.
Trade-offs
- Immich does not describe its normal multi-user media storage as end-to-end encrypted from the server operator.
- The operator is responsible for secure exposure, updates, backups, database protection, and recovery.
Best for
People willing to self-host a private alternative to a managed photo library.
Consider another option when
Users who need provider-independent zero-knowledge encryption without maintaining a server.
Technical details
Complete privacy-profile dimensions, grouped for easier review. Each value is retained from the catalogue record.
4 groups · 18 dimensions
- Processing
- Self-hosted
- Storage
- Self-hosted
- Offline support
- Partial
- Self-hosting
- Yes
- Data export
- Yes
- Data deletion
- Yes
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LocalSend
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Evidence
7 public sources collected
- Welcome to Immichimmich.app · Documentation · self-hosted photo/video management and open-source license
- Immich source repositorygithub.com · Source repository · source code and deployment components
- Immich Monitoringimmich.app · Documentation · optional telemetry and monitoring endpoints
View all 7 sources
- Immich Backup and Restoreimmich.app · Documentation · operator backup responsibilities
- Immich product keysbuy.immich.app · Product page · optional supporter product keys and non-paywalled software model
- Immich Quick Startdocs.immich.app · Documentation · current self-hosted deployment model
- Immich Monitoringdocs.immich.app · Documentation · operator-configured telemetry and metrics endpoints
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