PhotoSync
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
1warn against
Nov 4, 2025first mention
Sep 2, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“It has a killer feature Immich is still missing: encryption at rest of the photos.”
“PhotoSync (share photos with all platforms)”
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“I use and like PhotoSync”
“heard of PhotoSync and have never looked back”
switched from Image Captureon “Open-source iCloud Photos Downloader (AKA escape fro…”
“I use PhotoSync on my phone for this”
Caveats and dissent
“I had taken https://www.photosync-app.com/support/basics/answers/does-photosync-preserve-the-metadata-in-my-photos-and-videos”
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Data: photosync.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 11
“It has a killer feature Immich is still missing: encryption at rest of the photos.”
“PhotoSync (share photos with all platforms)”
“sync my photos using PhotoSync rather than rely on the app”
“I had taken https://www.photosync-app.com/support/basics/answers/does-photosync-preserve-the-metadata-in-my-photos-and-videos”
“I use and like PhotoSync”
“heard of PhotoSync and have never looked back”
“I use PhotoSync on my phone for this”
“Personally I use PhotoSync [^2] to backup our photos from phones to a NAS. It works reliably”
“I use photosync to upload to a folder that is an external library for immich.”
“syncing my photos with PhotoSync from my iPhone”
“I haven’t tried it but a popular option on iOS seems to be”