Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Google Photos
Automatic backup and unlimited storage for all your photos
Google Photos is an app for automatically backing up and storing photos from Android, iOS, or web browsers. Users can access their pictures from any device, share them with others, and organize their library. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Google Photos launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Free storage & automatic organization for all your memories
2016 · google.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, Over the last year we've been building ente[1], a privacy-friendly, easy-to-use alternative to Google Photos. We've so far built Android[2][3], iOS[4], web[5] apps that encrypt your files and back them up in the background. You can access these across your devices, and share them with other ente users, end-to-end encrypted. You can also use our electron app[6] to maintain a local copy of your backed up files. We've built a fault-tolerant data replication layer that replicates your data to two different storage providers in the EU. We will be providing additional replicas as an…
2021 · its alternatives →
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PhotoScan by Google▲1,219Photos from the past, meet scanner from the future
2016 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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A fast, helpful way to organize your photos offline
2019 · google.com · its alternatives →
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Share photos & videos between friends and family
2015 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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Memories is a FOSS Google Photos alternative that you can self-host (it runs as a Nextcloud plugin). Website: https://memories.gallery/ GitHub: https://github.com/pulsejet/memories Demo Server: https://demo.memories.gallery/apps/memories/ (demo runs in San Francisco on a free-tier cloud vm) Memories has been built ground-up for high performance and is extremely fast when configured correctly. In our testing environment, it can load a timeline view with 100k photos in under 500ms, including query and rendering time! Some features to…
2024 · memories.gallery · its alternatives →
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Turn live photos into cinematic, beautiful GIFs
2016 · get.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! My friend and I love taking pictures on our phones, and we were looking for a super simple way to share them with the world. Google Photos albums are nice, but the result isn't slick enough and lacks customization options (embed, custom domain). That's why we built myphotos.site - a micro SaaS that allows anyone to create a slick, minimal gallery website from Google Photos. Galleries can be iframe-embedded for those looking for full customization. One thing we haven't solved yet - many Google Photos users (myself included) do not have images pre-organized in albums, so the fact that…
2024 · myphotos.site · its alternatives →
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Capsule▲105Automatic photo backup, sorting & sharing from your home
2017 · heycapsule.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · surfer.io · its alternatives →
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Cloud storage or cloud drive app for photo and videos backup
2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Retro▲244A friends-only photo journal for moments big and small
2023 · retro.app · its alternatives →
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Export or Backup Google Photos directly to folder, organized
Feb 2026 · propertakeout.com · its alternatives →
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The easiest way to share and backup all kind of photos
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Reverse time to bring your old photos back to life
2023 · restorephoto.app · its alternatives →
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Snapshare Widget▲158Share your day with others directly on their home screen
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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LoveCapsule▲76Your child’s memories, stored in your Google Drive—forever.
Apr 2026 · lovecapsuleapp.com · its alternatives →
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