WanderPhoto

About

Google Photos scans every uploaded photo — for face recognition, object detection, location inference, and AI model training. Google's terms of service grant a broad license to use uploaded content to improve their services. Apple iCloud performs on-device scanning for content moderation. Amazon Photos scans photos to improve product recommendations and advertising targeting. In documented cases, photos stored in Google Photos have been flagged in law enforcement investigations. The family photo library is among the most personal data that exists — images of your home, your children, your relationships, your medical situations — and every major platform treats it as training data. Immich, the open-source photo library, has over 40,000 GitHub stars and active development. WanderPhoto packages Immich with one-command setup, running on your hardware, with on-device face recognition that never phones home.

Features

• No Google/Apple/Amazon scanning: your photos never leave your hardware
• On-device face recognition: Immich's ML runs locally — no faces sent to corporate servers
• 40,000+ GitHub star project: Immich has active community, not abandoned software
• Google Photos gap: full feature parity — albums, search, sharing, mobile sync, all local
• Smart search: find photos by object, location, date, person — without Google indexing your images
• Sharing without cloud intermediary: share albums via your own instance, not Google/Apple servers
• Mobile sync: automatic backup from iOS and Android to your WanderCloud instance
• Family archive protection: transition photos, medical photos, home interior — not corporate training data
• No subscription: your storage, your hardware, no monthly fee to access your own photos
• WanderCloud integration: photo library part of full self-hosted cloud suite