On PhotoSync and Photo Uploader for Photoprism

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Photosync is a photo uploading app that allows you to upload to various devices and cloud solutions with ease. Photo Uploader for Photoprism is a specialist app for Photoprism. The reason for which I bring up both of these apps is that they allow you to sync to photoprism.

When I was testing uploads with Photosync I noticed that I can upload to the Photoprism library directly but that it creates a "current_phone" folder, and adds photos within this folder. Since my originals folder is meant to be clean and chronological this breaks the flow I want.

That’s why I tested Photo Uploader for Photoprism. This is a specialist app. It’s designed to upload to Photoprism and nothing else. I configured it correctly, went out for a walk and uploaded a few pictures and they appeared right where I expected and wanted them to appear.

Tidy with Photo Uploader

If I use a Fairphone 4, and an iPhone Se, and an Iphone 14 I’d end up with three or four camera folders, each filed with photos. It would require manual maintenance to ensure that the library remains organised chronologically.

With a chronological library photos appear by year, month, day, so whether you upload from camera A or B, or C, they all get organised into the same hierarchy reducing the risk of duplicates, triplicates or worse. It also makes it possible to share your library between apps.

Imagine that you have a photos directory that Photoprism can feed and Immich and Nextcloud can see. If Immich and Nextcloud can see the same directory as Photoprism, then photoprism is the primary interface and Immich and Nextcloud mirror it.

In this way you have a single library to backup and maintain and the others mirror. With rsync you can mirror this drive to a secondary drive for a backup, and you can also get a service like kdrive, iCloud, Google Drive or other to watch and mirror changes either automatically or via cron jobs.

Versatile with PhotoSync

Photosync offeers WebDav, Google Drive, Google Photos, Flickr, Photoprism and more. If you want to you can set it up to sync automatically to the service of choice, and you can tell it to delete photos once they’re backed up. I never use the delete after backup option. I prefer to have files mirrored in at least one other place before deleting files.

Date Based Folders

While looking through I noticed that we have the Date Based Formats option, and the option of choosing recording date (year + month + day). I took a test photo this morning and it was automatically sorted into 2026/02/18/filename. By keeping the desired folder hierarchy I have little to no tidying up to do.

And Finally

Photosync and Photo Uploader for Photoprism do almost the same thing. Photosync feels more polished and stable. By allowing me to keep the folder hierarchy I want I can then feed Immich and Nextcloud with the shared folder without worrying about duplicates and triplicates.

If there is a breaking change for Photoprism, or Immich, and I need to start from scratch, my folder hierarchy will simplify the task, thanks in part to how Photosync or Photo Uploader for Photoprism, helped me keep my photos organised.