Amazon Photos vs Noodle Gallery

Amazon Photos stores, searches, shares, displays, and prints photos and videos from compatible devices. It is available on Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows. Auto-Save can back up a mobile camera roll, while Desktop Backup saves folders from Windows or Mac computers. Image recognition organizes photos by people, places, things, and dates, and the service supports natural-language search. Family Vault can include up to six members, each with an account at no additional cost; sharing groups can have up to 50 members each. Photos can also appear on Echo Show, Echo Spot, and Fire TV devices. The built-in editor can crop, adjust, and filter photos, while U.S. customers can use Amazon Prints for prints, photo books, and gifts. Free storage is 5 GB shared across photos and videos. The Amazon Prime Photos benefit includes unlimited full-resolution photo storage and 5 GB for videos and other files. Paid options include 50 GB for $0.99 a month and 2 TB for $11.99 a month. The service is for personal, non-commercial use only.

Noodle Gallery is a self-hosted photo and video app for storing and organizing media on a server you provide. Its Shared Spaces let several people contribute to one chronological timeline while keeping their personal libraries separate. A Cmd/Ctrl+K palette searches photos, people, places, tags, albums, Spaces, commands, and settings. The server supports S3-compatible storage, including AWS S3, MinIO, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, and Wasabi. A browser import wizard reads Google Takeout archives while retaining dates, GPS coordinates, descriptions, favorites, and album structure. Native iOS and Android apps include background camera backup, CLIP search, a map, and Shared Spaces. The developers say media, metadata, face-recognition data, and accounts stay on the user’s server, which they cannot access. Noodle Gallery is open source under AGPL-3.0, and each instance provides REST API documentation and Swagger UI at /doc. The free self-hosted plan has no subscription or storage cap, but runs on user-provided hardware.