# Immich — user reviews > 299 indexed App Store user reviews of Immich by FUTO Computing, rated 4.80/5 from 748 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/immich/id1613945652/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/immich/id1613945652.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 680 · 4★ 26 · 3★ 12 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 21 ## What do users think of Immich? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Smooth and fast - 🔒 Self-hosted, no data collection - 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly - 🚀 Efficient photo/video backup - 💡 Great alternative to Google Photos - 👍 Constantly updated and improved **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional crashes and freezes - 🐛 Unreliable background upload - 🐛 Issues with video playback quality - 🐛 Syncing problems with large libraries - 🐛 Login issues after updates **Commonly reported bugs** - Inability to log in on latest update - Frequent timeline rebuilds - Inconsistent behavior with HDR photos - Scrolling issues in the app - Unreliable background sync **Most requested features** - Option to remove photos from device after backup - Support for 360-degree photos and videos - Improved family/user sharing capabilities - Better integration with third-party tools - Clearer cache management ## Newest reviews (16 of 299) ### 2/5 — Keeps crashing - that’s all folks *2026-06-08, version v2.7.5* Wanted to really like Immich, after reading rave reviews. Out the time in to install the Docker image. But the iOS crashed on me twice. Sorry but that’s not a possible replacement for my Apple Photos app. I’m going to uninstall swiftly. ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2026-05-28, version v2.7.5* Love how I can see all my self hosted photos and videos on the go :) so happy I am off Google Photos. The one thing that is not working for me is the automatic network switching. Otherwise, love the app! Thank you so much! ### 5/5 — Destined for Greatness *2026-05-24, version v2.7.5* Fantastic tool. A bit involved to get setup, but still feels accessible to enthusiasts. Will no doubt benefit with further development. It’s a shame that daddy iOS controls background uploads, this is NOT IMMICH’S FAULT. ### 2/5 — UI kinda sucks *2026-05-14, version v2.7.5* Adding photos to an album is a two step process. To add photos to an album I first have to directly upload them into Immich. I then have to go to the album, click “add photos” and then go through all the photos to find the ones I just uploaded. Why can’t I upload from my iPhones photo library directly into an album? Why force this two step process. It’s stupid. Even adding photos from my library takes way more clicks than it should. I have to go to library > on this device > click the album. Why? Just put a ‘+’ button at the top of the screen that brings up my iPhones photo library. Why does adding photos in a PHOTO APP take 5 more clicks than it should. It should be 1 click. ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2026-05-13, version v2.7.5* Love this for being able to trust where my photos are stored. No cloud costs. Just wonderful. ### 5/5 — Incredible App *2026-05-08, version v2.7.5* Incredible app and ecosystem around it. Many open source tools such as immich frame for digital picture frames or immich go to help bulk import photos. ### 4/5 — Personenmanagement verbesserungswürdig *2026-05-03* Eine sehr tolle App, macht was es soll. Allerdings wärs gut wenn man die erkannten Personen genau so gut managen könnte, wie auf dem PC. Z.B. kann ich in der App keine Personen zusammenführen und auch nicht neue Gesichter, die nicht erkannt wurden, manuell hinzufügen. Und noch ein kleines Feature wäre, dass man direkt an den Anfang der Seite kommt, wenn man ganz oben neben der notch auf die uhrzeit oder auf den Akkustand tippt. Das ist eigentlich schon Standard in ios. Ansonsten top. ### 5/5 — Juste formidable *2026-05-01* C’est un service incroyable pour stocker ces photos sans prise de tête avec le classement par catégories, la reconnaissance des visages et même les fonctions live des photos, Apple et pixels. Que du bonheur pour l’instant. ### 5/5 — Constantly improving *2026-04-30* Each new version becomes better, solves bugs and adds useful features. Fully recommended. Some bugs I had reported in the past (with the most serious one, upload timeouts) have been solved, so now I have started using the app again and I am totally satisfied. ### 5/5 — Brilliant and Pro! *2026-04-20, version v2.7.5* Finally found Immich after trying many other photo apps for NAS or other self storage. It rivals anything else and deserves a standing ovation! Nothing but a positive experience. ### 5/5 — Great Google Photos Alternative *2026-04-17, version v2.7.5* This is such an easy service to set up for yourself, even if you only use it for transferring pictures to your computer. ### 5/5 — Love self hosted *2026-04-11, version v2.7.4* This is iCloud without the subscription ### 5/5 — There’s no better alternative *2026-04-08, version v2.7.2* Gotta say ever since I moved away from cloud photo storage into local self-hosting, I’ve tried many solutions and nothing. NOTHING works as smooth, as clean, as immich. ### 5/5 — Best self hosted photos app *2026-04-08, version v2.7.0* One of the best photos apps. The devs are on top of it and the app is polished and feature packed ### 5/5 — Self hosted cloud photos ! *2026-04-06, version v2.6.3* Best replacement for Google Photos / Amazon photos ! ### 5/5 — Take back control! *2026-03-28, version v2.6.3* Get immich because you deserve better! Fast. Safe. Local. Reliable. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Terrible Security options *2026-08-21, version v3.1.0* This app looks good on the surface and as a self hosted app it cannot handle most decent security and access - mtls for something like cloudflare etc - rejected and sitting open as a request for 2 years - I would strongly recommend you give this app a miss ### 1/5 — Janky ux *2026-07-01, version v2.7.5* I could tell there was something not quite right about this. Turns out it’s a flutter app. Everything made sense after that ### 1/5 — Crashes on launch. *2026-05-27, version v2.7.5* Can’t even get to using the app. Good luck to you guys out there. Going back to photoprism now… ### 1/5 — Not yet there and has many issues *2026-04-07, version v2.6.3* Image preview is very poor when zooming in to any image, if building preview at 100% then it defeats the entire purpose of previews since that will be done for all images. When I look at single images, there is no reason why it shows me only previews. When I then attempt to download the full photo, the download sticks at 100% and never completes. No error message either. Had high hopes but looking unlikely to replace my cloud photos anytime soon……. ### 1/5 — fix bug *2026-03-06, version v2.5.6* can not sync photo ### 1/5 — Background upload does not work *2025-12-12, version v2.3.0* I like the app and the software, but the lack of background upload is a dealbreaker. I don’t know what kind of magic Google does, but their app works fine in background. ### 1/5 — Accès serveur *2025-12-11* L’application n’arrive pas à ce connectée au serveur ### 1/5 — Frustrating with low storage! *2025-10-21, version v2.1.0* If you are trying to back up with this app, you will come across running out of extra room because of the way it prepares to back up so you may have to delete the app and continue to back up again by reinstalling the app the bug fix is still ways away. ### 1/5 — Backup doesn’t work after app update *2025-10-18, version v2.1.0* Isn’t the point is to backup your photos, but with the latest update it doesn’t see the backed up photos. Can’t even upload new photos as it’s unable to sync, feels like a waste of time. ### 1/5 — Why do I need to allow reading all the Photos to download my own photos??? *2025-10-14, version v2.0.1* Why do I need to allow reading all the Photos to download my own photos??? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Immich has been great *2026-08-16, version v3.1.0* Great little widget, there is only two things that i wish were different. First when I open a picture I see in the widget, how do I get to that timeline, can you add a See in Timeline option? My old brain has to write the date on paper so I don’t forget after backing out and scrolling to the date. Also, when I click the widget and not connected to the server, I connect VPN and the picture instantly changes (maybe put a 10 second wait on connect to swap photo in widget) Keep up the good work! ### 5/5 — Incredible *2026-08-12, version v3.1.0* Literally as good as Google Photos but locally hosted! Is that not incredible! ### 5/5 — Hands down the best *2026-08-01, version v3.1.0* This by far is the best photo manager for iOS and android. No longer do I need to overpay for more storage on my phone. I could toss all my pictures and videos I take on my camera and view it wherever I am. Works great with Sony Alpha cameras. ### 5/5 — Immich is amazing *2026-07-29, version v3.1.0* This app and ecosystem is proof of the power of OpenSource and gives me hope for humanity ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-07-29, version v3.1.0* An extraordinarily good solution to local photo management and back ups. ### 5/5 — No more Google Photos *2026-07-06, version v3.0.1* It's the closest thing to a perfect self-hosted replacement for Google Photos. The UI is incredibly snappy, and the facial recognition and search features work surprisingly well. My only real gripe is that iOS background syncing can be a bit finicky—I usually have to actually open the app to get backups to trigger and complete. But once the photos are up there, the experience is stellar. Definitely worth hosting. ### 5/5 — Best image app ever *2026-07-06* thank you for providing this app. this is the best ever seen photo and video backup app ### 5/5 — Fantastic product *2026-06-25, version v2.7.5* Thank you guys soo much for keeping this free and open source! One of the best apps I host and use. Appreciate it team! ### 5/5 — Einfach toll *2026-05-31* Es ist echt der Wahnsinn was für eine tolle Software man hier zum selbst hosten bekommt. Endlich kann ich mit meiner Partnerin unsere Urlaubsfotos auf einer Plattform sammeln bei der man nicht das Gefühl hat die Trainingsdaten für irgendein Big Tech Unternehmen zu liefern. Volle Kontrolle über die eigenen Daten und dabei tolle Features wie Gesichtserkennung auf der eigenen Hardware. Alles fühlt sich rund an und mir ist bisher kein Bug begegnet. Macht weiter so, ihr seid einfach super! ### 5/5 — Goated *2026-05-29, version v2.7.5* Missing some features from the web app, but you can’t really complain with something free and responsive like this --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-28.*