Ente vs Immich

Both are self-hosted photo galleries projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Ente and Immich are closely matched on maintenance health (98 vs 94). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
EnteImmich
Health score 98/100 94/100
Commits (11 mo) 15697 2654
Commits (last 3 mo) 5349 784
Stars 29k 115k
Latest release 24 Sept 2026 15 Sept 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 AGPL-3.0
Built with Docker, Nodejs, Go Docker
Typical RAM 2 GB 2 GB

Ente

An end-to-end encrypted photo-sharing platform (alternative to Google Photos, Apple Photos).

98/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 40/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity in the top 1% of tracked projects; popularity more than 91%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 1039 commits 2025-11: 1425 commits 2025-12: 1240 commits 2026-01: 1387 commits 2026-02: 1140 commits 2026-03: 1587 commits 2026-04: 1019 commits 2026-05: 1511 commits 2026-06: 1464 commits 2026-07: 1921 commits 2026-08: 1964 commits

Immich

Photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone (alternative to Google Photos).

94/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 37/40
Releases 25/25
Community 20/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 93% of tracked projects; popularity in the top 1%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 260 commits 2025-11: 205 commits 2025-12: 131 commits 2026-01: 265 commits 2026-02: 300 commits 2026-03: 258 commits 2026-04: 236 commits 2026-05: 215 commits 2026-06: 270 commits 2026-07: 262 commits 2026-08: 252 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted photo galleries.