Ente

Use one E2EE account and server foundation for photos, 2FA data, and sensitive documents

Ente Photos provides backup, face detection, semantic search, private sharing, and collaborative albums; Ente Auth provides end-to-end encrypted 2FA; Locker stores documents, credentials, and notes with private sharing and emergency access. The Museum server is a data-agnostic encrypted-storage backend shared across applications.

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Open-source clients, web apps, and server infrastructure make self-hosting possible

The monorepo includes iOS, Android, F-Droid, web, Linux, macOS, and Windows clients plus server code. The self-host quickstart starts the Museum API, Photos web app, PostgreSQL, and MinIO with Docker Compose.

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For users who prioritize encryption, portability, and the option to leave Google Photos or Authy-style hosted ecosystems

It fits individuals and teams that want open-source clients and servers for photos, 2FA, and sensitive documents while keeping provider-side plaintext access out of the architecture, either using Ente's hosted service or operating their own infrastructure.

The quickstart is an evaluation setup, not a production architecture

The quickstart documentation recommends considering external object storage and a database for serious use. museum.yaml contains unique instance credentials and must be protected, and Ente recommends keeping plaintext photo backups until a reliable backup strategy is established.

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End-to-end encryption does not replace availability, backup, and restore operations

The quickstart stores PostgreSQL and MinIO data in Docker volumes. Running docker compose down --volumes permanently removes those volumes, so production self-hosting still needs independent database/object-storage backups and restore testing.

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The monorepo uses per-application release tags, so GitHub Latest is not an umbrella Ente version

Photos, Auth, Locker, and other apps are released independently from the same repository. As of September 17, 2026, GitHub marks Locker v1.0.9 as the repository's Latest release; that does not imply Photos or Auth use the same version.

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