Ente Photos Reviews

Good luck uploading photos when you have to baby EntePhotos to keep it open long enough to upload more than 10 at a time. I thought it would only be this unstable while uploading but even after finishing EntePhotos still won’t stay open longer than a minute. It’s a shame because this is the best alternative to G Photos but because of this crashing issue it’s totally unusable.

I'm not a young guy, and I use exclusively high-end professional services. To have one of them change their icon from something that looked extremely professional to something that reminds me of a high school dating app is quite frustrating. They have allowed users to modify that icon on the mobile app, but the desktop app remains the same new cheesy dating interface.

Overall EntePhotos works pretty good, and I like the security and privacy features built in for those extra privacy-focused. I have not gotten a chance to test out the de-duplicate options yet but one thing I frequently do is visually skim through my library when the image thumbnails are smaller. When you do your initial sync (I have about 40,000 items, and about 1,000 are videos, and the iPad Pro app freezes and crashes frequently when getting about 3/4 through the initial sync. The green spinning circle goes SO SLOW for about 1-2 minutes before EntePhotos crashes, and only 4-8 videos got uploaded. I had to do that a LOT and hope it ran overnight when it was time to go to bed. FEATURE REQUEST -it would be REALLY nice if I can zoom out at several levels like Apple Photos does, and like how you can change thumbnail sizes for files in file pickers. Why can I not pinch to zoom on any grid of images??? Let us zoom out real far like Apple to see a large number of files. [EDIT:bI’d like to have more than 6 options in a single row.] Sometimes it’s useful to be able to glance at big groups of images quickly as you scroll by such as a vacation or convention to look for something specific that is not a face, but at least on iPad Pro, I can’t seem to find an option to zoom out. Even Apple Photos lets you zoom out a few different levels. I’m sure it’s easy to implement. Please take my consideration into this for a higher rating. Thanks!

I was looking for an alternative to the idiotic Apple iCloud move planned for end of July 2023 and saw this recommended on an online post. But once I created an account and verified, I saw the payment screen. Sure, they offer a one-year free trial for 1 GB but I was looking for something more long-term than a year, and as unliked as Apple is, their free offer is 5GB. Just doesn’t make sense.

Overall a great, if pricey , app for private photos. Works on my work network too unlike other cloud solutions so I can share with colleagues.

Needs custom photo ordering within an album and I’ll stay long term instead of switching to immich.

Alternatively, a 500gig plan would work to keep my sub long term. I have 250 gigs of photos so a 1tb is a huge waste of funds for me.

Great UI too, wish I found this earlier. The only problem I have is when I download a photo from EntePhotos the date and time doesn’t reflect on my on device photo album. The date/time always show up as when I downloaded it. It would be great if that could get fixed.

Customer service from Ente is nothing short of amazing. The team replies promptly and is always courteous. I had a small issue with EntePhotos and they pushed an update in under 10 hours. The issue was completely resolved. I’ve had subscriptions with all the major E2EE storage apps and they don’t come close in any aspect.

Our whole family uses Ente Photos. Absolutely fantastic.

I wish there was a way, when Ente believes a photo to be of person X and it is incorrect, to tell it so from the photo view. This way, when I tap a memory photo from the widget etc, I could immediately correct an error.

This application hits the sweet spot. They don’t mine your data like other companies like Google Photos. It works across platforms unlike Apple photos. I’ll be using this service for all my photos for life. Also they keep making a great application even better.

It's a great choice for storing Live Photos. While other apps can store Live Photos, they often result in distorted images. Ente solves this problem perfectly, providing the same photo-taking experience as iOS. The 10GB of free storage is more than enough for the average user.

This is a great alternative to Big Tech which is slowly consolidating control over all digital services.

I was a long time user of Google Photos and was pulled in originally by their false promise of free, unlimited storage. Now Google Photos caps it at 15GB and constantly reminds you to upgrade and pay them while also adding more and more advertising for other services. Google Photos and iCloud also make it much harder than it needs to be to export your data or back it up to other locations such as an external hard drive.

EntePhotos on the other hand is transparent with their pricing from the start and make it easy to export your data for back up elsewhere. I also like the grass roots nature of EntePhotos. Too many apps and companies use VC funding to offer too good to be true services only to later do a rug pull once they corner the market and then start to raise prices, lower the quality, and treat their employees poorly.

If you want a photo app that offers a great service and you can feel good about as well, get Ente!

as good as google photos is, Google has shown it can't be trusted with user information. ente is young but has the promise to become a good replacement. i hope they continue to follow their principles of data portability and preventing vendor lock-in. i also hope to see some more robust permissions and sharing features for various social situations. the price is steep compared to the alternatives but if it results in a sustainable business that does not require venture capital, then the high price is justified.

I have started to distance myself from google since their products have started to become worse over time and so far this is the best google photos alternative I can find

Been using EntePhotos for a few weeks now and no issues yet. A little slower than id like, but it’s definitely worth it. Will definitely keep using Ente over the next few months to see if worth keeping. So far so good!!!

Simple and easy to use! It’s dependable and easy to access photo. I love how easy it is to clear up free space on my phone after uploading too. I just wish the manual upload limit was more than 50 photos!

Love EntePhotos . The focus on privacy and not being tied to google or apple however when you compare prices it is kind of rough comparatively. However as a user of EnteAuth I want to do my part in supporting a company with a privacy focus.

This is probably the best Photos app that I’ve ever used thats also 100% private. The only thing it wish it had would be more themed color options and a cute App icon featuring the adorable duck. Otherwise 5/5.

Now more than ever it's important to protect your most personal data, and nothing is more personal than the photos and pictures on your device(s)

Yeah EntePhotos is fantastic, and i haven’t had a problem with it saving images in a lower quality like google photos does. also unlike google photos, you don’t have to back up your entire device on it every time you open EntePhotos just to save a couple photos to it. i wish it was a little more clear on what photos are actually “uncategorized” but other than that this thing is amazing. there’s even a way to delete duplicate images!

With the added security benefits and privacy protections. I hope Ente continues to lead the way with such privacy and security features as their top priorities. 🤞🤳