Immich
Browse and organise.
The open-source photo and video library at the heart of the experience.
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Your memories.
A shared foundation.
Building on Immich to preserve your photo library across devices.
In developmentA familiar home for your memories.
Built on Immich. Extended by VOLPAROSSA.
Immich
Immich provides the familiar photo-library experience. VOLPAROSSA is developing the connection to Core for encrypted storage, recovery and use across devices.
The current integration focuses on private snapshots. Live library and mobile use are still being developed.
Core
Storage and recovery.
The shared foundation for encrypted fragments, placement and storage accounting.
You
Keys and permissions.
Keep control of recovery credentials and deliberate sharing choices.
A library is more than its photos.
Preserve the originals and the information that keeps them together.
A snapshot brings a prepared copy of the library database and media into one recoverable archive. The recovery key and trusted recovery records must be kept separately by the owner.
Photos and videos
The original media you want to preserve.
Albums and organisation
The library data that keeps your collection in context.
Recovery information
Keep your key and trusted recovery records independently available.
A snapshot is a prepared copy of the library at a particular point in time.
Preserve it. Protect it. Bring it back.
Snapshot recovery is a development step toward a working library.
Prepare a snapshot
Start with a prepared, consistent copy of the library database and media. Keep the original library unchanged.
Encrypt before sharing
Encrypt the archive locally. Keep the recovery key and trusted recovery records separate from the stored data.
Store across participants
Core divides the encrypted archive into fragments and keeps redundant copies with authorised storage participants.
Encrypted fragments. Redundant copies.
Retrieve and restore
Retrieve and verify the encrypted archive, then decrypt it locally with your retained key into a new recovery copy.
Retrieve & verify Decrypt locally
The current storage command retrieves ciphertext. Supplying the key and decrypting are separate operations.
A restored archive still needs a verified Immich import before it becomes a working photo library.
See the development evidenceA library that moves with you.
Target experienceDesigned for Android, iPhone, iPad and the web.
The goal is to browse and synchronise your library without personally maintaining a server that must stay online. Live library access and device synchronisation are being developed.
Recovery still needs your credentials and enough available storage participants.
AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb
Target experience illustrated with a fictional photo collection.
Personal moments. Personal boundaries.
Private photos, faces and locations need explicit boundaries.
Your recovery keys
Keep an independent private copy of the key and credentials needed for recovery. Storage participants do not receive your decryption key.
Encrypted storage
The snapshot is encrypted before it reaches storage participants, including the media and library metadata inside it.
Careful processing
Private image analysis requires local or explicitly trusted execution. Encrypted storage alone does not make arbitrary remote processing private.
Private media and metadata are not automatically published to public cache or used for model training.
What works today. What comes next.
A bounded snapshot trial is demonstrated. The complete photo-library experience is still being built.
Demonstrated in a scoped trial
An encrypted snapshot made from synthetic test data was stored across three providers. With one provider offline, the remaining providers supplied the encrypted data for two successful local decryptions and restores by the owner.
The recorded trial also completed deletion of its stored copies and cleanup.
Read the snapshot evidence View on GitHubIn development
End-to-end testing of the current storage adapter, a running restored Immich library, device synchronisation, mobile integration and automatic storage maintenance.
Explore the integration work View on GitHubThe trial covers its pinned snapshot implementation, not the newer adapter or live library use.
There is no supported end-user release yet.
Help give memories a lasting home.
Contribute to recovery, mobile integration, documentation and testing. Help turn the shared storage foundation into a complete photo-library experience.
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