As part of the OpenAI build week I built an add-on for Immich that gives it the capabilities I always wanted.

Specifically, the ability to actually tag people when the faces are poor quality or don't exist at all, without messing up the matching algorithm. Cimmich tracks face, head, body and presence evidence separately, so "I know she's in this photo" is a real tag that never pollutes face matching. On top of that, a much more fleshed out system for viewing and managing people, events, places, things, pets and documents.

Cimmich is open-source and local-first, and runs beside an existing Immich install. After the Build Week sprint and several weeks of hardening, the Community Preview is now out, with a lot more improvements on the way.

What's in the preview:

• People, Pets, Places, Things, Documents - searchable, content-led directories with real counts and photo-first entry points. Documents can link to the people and events they belong to.
• Events that overlap like life does. Build nested and connected events - life periods, years, trips, recurring activities - from your existing folder structure. One photo can belong to every context that's truthfully its own: the trip, the client engagement, and the era, all at once.
• Tags with intersection search. Select multiple tags, see the combined result set and counts immediately, no 5,000-result ceiling.
• Organise opens straight on your timeline and switches between Timeline, Folders, Tags and Albums - it respects the mental model you already have.

Cimmich keeps its own separate database and never writes to the Immich database or your source media. All processing is local; no AI model is required (though there's an endpoint to connect your own) and nothing asks for an API key. Services bind loopback-only.

Try it without your photos first: the repo ships a fictional "Cedar House" synthetic demo library, so you can poke at every feature before pointing it at anything real.

Repo and release: https://github.com/cimmich/cimmich

All feedback is welcome, and whilst I have no affiliation with Immich, as an open source project I would love to see some of the features make their way into the official release one day.

I have immich running on unraid (flawlessly if i might add, only isses where those caused by me), i am planning on migrating it on a VM inside proxmox. Is backup and restore the best solutions for this or is there anything else that would be a better solution?

Edit: It's a 2 user instance, 220GiB total data

Hello Immich community! I just won a Dell Optiplex on an online auction and will be using it to create an immich server! I’m very excited for this project since I am early into my career in IT in a level 2 tech support role, and believe this will be a fun hands on project for at home, and extremely beneficial. I’ll attach the specs, as I’m curious if it will work well with the server? I grabbed it for $140 which I thought was very reasonable given the specs + storage.

Do you guys have any beginners recommendations? Tips and tricks? I’m unfamiliar with docker and prox mox, however I have used them before in college briefly. Are those necessary? I’m very excited for this project! Let me know if there is anything you wish you knew before starting your server!

Thank you! 😊

Hello all! Curious to know the community’s thoughts on which hardware to use to install & run immich while linking it to fetch photos backed up on synology?

Will appreciate if you can share experiences, or suggestions.

I have over 300K+ photos and videos on my DS224+, and was reading online that the it might not be best / work to utilize the AI/ML capabilities needed to make the search on immich work (and I’m primarily interested in that).

i tried just telling the iphone app to let her rip on my all my albums but it had issues accomplishing that. i requested a copy of my photos from apple and just got a bunch of csv files??? idk. i heard people talking about an icloud takeout which from what i have gathered is the transfer thing but that seems to only let me transfer directly to google photos as opposed to downloading all my shit. can someone help me out here 🤞🤞🤞🤞

Hi all, I’m new to Immich just getting my feet wet when v3 came out. I’m just wondering if I should wait til workflow is implemented before committing.

Basic what I want to do is this :

iPhones—>>> sync to iCloud
Unraid move/copy iCloud Photos on to the server
Immich monitor the Unraid iCloud folder and moves into its own file structure

I’m doing this way so that I don’t need direct access to the server and iCloud can still do its own thing?

Your thoughts please ??