Hands-on with the new Plex Photos app: A fresh Google Photos alternative appears
It's early days still, but Plex Photos could be the locally-hosted Google Photos alternative we've wanted.
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I strongly believe that Google Photos has been instrumental in inculcating a backup habit among smartphone photographers. However, if you truly care about backing up your data, local storage is the way to go. It gives you more control over your data and avoids recurring subscription fees as well as being locked into a service provider. We’ve previously talked about NAS drives and self-hosted image solutions. But despite efforts to simplify oversized backup solutions for regular customers, these services can be hard to configure and even harder to access remotely.
Plex Photos is trying to be the Google Photos of self-hosted images.
Enter Plex Photos. The darling of the self-hosted media community has finally decided to launch a photo app that promises to offer the same experience as it does for movies and music. It bears mentioning that photo integration isn’t new to Plex. It’s been possible to add a photo library to Plex for years, but these photo libraries would remain integrated within the main Plex interface alongside your music and movies.
