Want to ditch Google Photos without losing automatic backups, facial recognition, and mobile apps? Immich is a self-hosted Google Photos replacement — ElfHosted runs the application, you bring your own cloud storage for photos and videos. Install the mobile app, connect your storage, and start backing up. Your photos stay yours, with no privacy trade-offs. PeerTube lets you host your own federated video platform (YouTube alternative), with PeerTube Runner handling transcoding.
Immich
The self-hosted Google Photos replacement that finally got the iOS/Android auto-backup right — face recognition, object detection, shared albums, all running on your subdomain.
A managed instance of Immich on ElfHosted — the self-hosted photo and video management server that turned the "leave Google Photos" project from "theoretically possible" into "easy". Native mobile apps with auto-upload from camera roll, on-device + server-side ML for face / object / OCR search, shared albums, timeline view, map view, RAW support. AGPL-3.0, your library lives in your storage.
PeerTube
Run your own YouTube — federated with the Fediverse, no algorithmic feed, no advertiser pressure, your videos on your subdomain.
A managed instance of PeerTube on ElfHosted — the federated video-hosting platform. Upload videos like you would to YouTube; viewers find them via your instance, the Fediverse (Mastodon, Pixelfed, other PeerTube instances follow your channel), or direct links. Live streaming supported. Built by Framasoft (a French non-profit), AGPL-3.0, no algorithmic feed, no recommendations engine optimised against you.
ImmichFrame
Turn any TV, tablet, Raspberry Pi, or e-ink display into a digital photo frame pulling from your Immich library — with overlays, multi-account, and HTTP remote control.
A managed instance of ImmichFrame on ElfHosted — the companion app that turns idle screens into a slideshow window onto your Immich library. Browser-based, Android TV, Apple TV, Raspberry Pi, e-ink — anything that can render a web page or run the native client. Optional overlays (clock, weather, photo location), multi-account support, and an HTTP control API for skip / pause / brightness from your phone or smart-home routine.