There's Nexcloud and the "Memories" plugin. It's not as good as Immich though, especially if you don't need the rest of NextCloud.
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Just use Immich. It's easy and apes Google Photos.
Ente is the other main option, but I never evaluated it because Immich worked so well.
Just recently migrated from Ente to Immich. Immich is much nicer, more consistent, friendlier to self host, and less buggy in my experience so far.
Immich doesn't have shared album option does it ?
You can share albums with other users, or even with a public link.
Immich is the easiest self-hosted thing I've set up. It also might've been the first.
I have to warn you about Immich on one item: large file upload. Immich does not have chunk uploading, so if you are backing up a large video and you lose internet, the upload has to start all over. I found this out when my phone was trying to upload a 4k video that was about 10GB.
I do this with my family using Immich. Everyone has their own private library but we also have shared albums for vacations and such.
Immich is the correct choice
if you buy a nas and some hardrives, the nas os usually has an app repository, so you fibd immich and click install. that will be the easy , non-technical way to do it
I use ente.io, afaik you can selfhost it but I'm sticking with their subscription since I don't trust myself with my backup strategy ^^"
It also has an "event"-feature where you can share an album-link and people without an account/the app can upload images to the album
Photoprism is what I use.
If you install proxmox on the laptop there is a community script to install and setup photoprism. Lots of other neat services you could run too. Relatively beginner friendly.
There are android and ios apps for photoprism that will auto upload new images from your phone to the photoprism server.