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Immich vs Buzz

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	Immich Self-hosted photo library with AI search and face recognition. Visit	Buzz Transcribe and caption audio offline on your computer. Visit
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Tags	practical-ossopen-sourceself-hostedphotos	practical-ossopen-sourceself-hostedtranscription
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Pros	Full Google Photos-style experience you host yourself, keeping photos private Automatic phone backup via polished native iOS and Android apps Local AI: CLIP-powered natural-language search and on-device face recognition Multi-user accounts, shared and partner albums, and a global map view Fully open source under AGPL-3.0 with a very active development community	Runs fully offline on your own machine, keeping audio private Permissive MIT license Handles files, YouTube links, and live microphone transcription Exports to TXT, SRT, and VTT, with speaker identification and a watch-folder option Hardware acceleration via CUDA, Apple Silicon, and Vulkan for faster processing
Cons	You are responsible for your own backups; a server failure can lose irreplaceable memories Requires running and maintaining a Docker-based server stack The machine-learning features benefit from more RAM and ideally a capable CPU or GPU AGPL-3.0 has copyleft obligations that matter if you modify and offer it as a service	Accuracy and speed depend on the Whisper model size and your hardware; larger models need a capable GPU Whisper's translation feature outputs English, so it is not a general any-to-any translator Installers are unsigned, so Windows and macOS show security warnings on first run Intel Macs are no longer supported beyond an older release; current versions require Apple Silicon

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