The Easiest Photo Self-Hosting Exit Ramp from Big Cloud

This app's latest update turns DIY photo hosting into something that feels built for people, not just power users.

Screenshot of a photo gallery app showing a dark left navigation menu and a top search bar, with a four-photo grid featuring monkeys by water, a festive table setting with orange flowers, a couple holding hands, and a flower-lined park path, plus a narrow phone thumbnail column and fireworks at the right edge.

The self-hosting crowd has been waiting for this one. Immich, the open-source photo platform for people allergic to Google Photos and iCloud, just hit version 2.0 and declared itself “stable.”

It’s finally ready for normal humans who don’t enjoy debugging YAML files at midnight, or for those who don’t even know what that means.

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