Cloud storage

Ente Photos alternatives

3 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

ente/entethe vendor’s own source28,170AGPL-3.0💚 End-to-end encrypted cloud for everything.Open on GitHub hudikhq/hoodik1,428licence unclearSelf-hosted end-to-end encrypted personal storage drive with user-facing app and sharing features.Open on GitHub haiwen/seafile15,075licence unclearFile sync and sharing server with encrypted libraries, web UI, thumbnails, and link-sharing capabilities.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Official audited encryption provenance and published protocol details
Polished cross-platform native apps (Android/iOS/Desktop) and on-device ML features
Their multi-cloud 3-replica storage strategy
Human support and managed family-plan billing
Public roadmap and CI maintained by the Ente team

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Ente Photos, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.