Flickr vs PhotoStructure
Flickr
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PhotoStructure
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| Figure | Flickr | PhotoStructure |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $6.83/mo | $3.50/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 3 |
| Spec score · Photo Storage Services | 9.3 (#3) | 8.2 (#24) |
| Spec score · Photo Management Software | 9.3 (#2) | 8.2 (#13) |
| Integrations | Official tools include Lightroom and Aperture upload integrations, a Chrome new-tab extension, and desktop Uploadr applications. | It can import metadata from Apple Photos libraries, and its guide describes reading metadata sidecars and Google Takeout JSON files. |
| Privacy controls | Users control visibility, downloads and interactions per item; EXIF and GPS data can be hidden or exposed according to settings. | The maker says Lite has no tracking or analytics, and its privacy policy says in-app update checks, detailed identification, and application error reporting can be disabled. |
| Support | Flickr directs users to contact its help service for questions, concerns, and customer service inquiries. | Plus includes forum and email customer support, and the maker also points users to its community forum and Discord. |
Plans
Flickr
- Flickr FreeFree
- Flickr Pro$8 a month
- Flickr Pro Monthly$11 a month
- Flickr Pro Annual$82 a year
- Flickr Pro 2-Year$148, paid once
In their own words
Flickr
Flickr is an online photography community for managing, sharing, and discovering photos. Users can store and organize images, make galleries, and explore galleries from photographers they follow. Groups, contests, and a photography blog provide community activities, while daily curation and Creative Commons images support discovery. Privacy settings let users choose default visibility and control who can view, download, or interact with individual photos and videos. The mobile app can upload camera-roll photos and videos automatically, keeping them private until the user chooses to share them. Image recognition can find visually similar images and assist with search and organization. Users may authorize third-party apps to work with their accounts and later revoke access in settings. Flickr offers an API for non-commercial use; commercial use requires prior arrangement. The free plan permits 1,000 public photo and video uploads and displays ads. Flickr Pro costs $8 a month, billed annually, and includes unlimited full-resolution sharing and backup, ad-free browsing, detailed statistics, and enhanced privacy settings.
PhotoStructure
PhotoStructure is a personal digital asset manager for organizing, browsing and sharing photos and videos, with desktop and self-hosted editions. It scans drives, sorts files into a folder structure you choose and watches for new arrivals. Duplicate copies, edits, resized versions and related burst photos can be grouped into a single library entry. Browsing pages surface random samples and provide facets for dates, locations, camera details, folders and people tags. The software supports several hundred photo and video formats and creates web-friendly previews. Tags, captions, corrected dates and locations can be saved in files or XMP sidecars; metadata can also be imported from Apple Photos libraries and read from sidecars or Google Takeout JSON files. Installers are available for Windows, macOS and Linux, while server editions support Docker or Node.js on a home server, NAS or VPS. The maker says the application does not upload photo or video libraries, though optional error reports may include system information, paths, logs and error details. Lite is free; Plus is $5 a month and includes a 15-day trial.