Timich vs cairn

Timich is a simple and elegant app for browsing your personal self-hosted Immich server from iPhone and iPad. Immich is a free and open-source photo management solution that runs on hardware you control. Timich connects to your own server, or to a paired Timich Agent, and gives you a smooth, responsive interface for exploring photos and videos without distraction. Use Timich at home with your local Immich server, or pair Timich Agent for a private connection path to your library. Timich Reach is an optional auto-renewable subscription that adds Remote Browsing through your paired Timich Agent when you are away from your home network. Timich Reach Family adds Family Sharing and supports Remote Browsing for up to five active app devices. Timich does not replace Immich and does not host your photo library. Your media stays on the Immich server and Timich Agent you run or control. Features: - Browse photos and videos from your self-hosted Immich server - Connect directly to Immich or pair with Timich Agent - Search your library - Jump quickly through large timelines by date - Open photos and videos in a focused full-screen viewer - Share media with the iOS share sheet - Save photos and videos to your device photo library - Use Timich Reach for optional Remote Browsing through your paired Agent Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Timich Terms of Use: https://timich.runo.jp/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://timich.runo.jp/privacy/

cairn reconciles your iPhone photo library against your own Immich server. When you delete a photo on your phone, cairn moves the matching photo on Immich to Trash. That's the whole job. cairn doesn't upload photos, show albums, edit metadata, or run AI — the Immich app already does those things. cairn closes the one loop the Immich app doesn't: photos that live on the server after you've deleted them from your phone. HOW IT WORKS — Content identity is SHA1 (the same identifier Immich uses server-side). — cairn subscribes to iOS's deletion log, so it sees soft-deletes as you make them. — A configurable quarantine window holds confirmed deletions before anything moves, so an accidental mass-offload has time to be caught. — Every run shows you the candidate list first. Nothing happens on the server until you confirm. SAFETY MODEL — Trash, not delete. cairn moves assets into your Immich Trash — Immich retains them for 30 days, and restore is one tap. — Percent cap + floor. If a single run would move more than a threshold of your matched photos to Trash, it aborts without touching the server. — Breadcrumbs. Every run is tagged on Immich (cairn/v1/run/[id]) so you can find it server-side. — Forensic journal. Local append-only log records every step — planned, tagged, trashed, restored, failed. — Exclusions. Protect specific photos from ever being flagged. — Indexing scope. Restrict cairn to a specific set of Photos albums. Photos outside the scope are silently ignored — never hashed, never proposed for trash. Useful if you want to manage just one album and leave synced family albums alone. PRIVACY — No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no ads. — No cairn backend. Your iPhone talks directly to your Immich server using your API key. — Credentials stay in the iOS Keychain. Nothing leaves your device besides requests you configured. REQUIREMENTS — An Immich server you run or control. — An Immich API key. cairn requests these scopes: asset.read, asset.view, asset.download, asset.delete, tag.create, tag.asset, tag.read. The Setup screen lists them when you paste your key. cairn is not affiliated with the Immich project. It talks to Immich over its public API; compatibility only. Source is MIT-licensed at github.com/glarue/cairn.