Ente
End-to-end encrypted photo and video storage, an alternative to Google Photos
Alternative to: google photos, apple photos, amazon photos, icloud
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photos-v1.3.63
2026-09-07- Added Library Sharing for automatically sharing current and future albums with family members.
- Added album descriptions, including on shared links. The “Ente” album filter now includes albums shared with you, and shared and received albums can be archived and restored.
- Added album slideshows, with controls for slide duration, photo order, and background style.
- On Android 11 and newer, device photos deleted through Ente now move to the system trash and can be recovered from the app.
- Edited photos now retain key camera, date, and location details. JPEGs also retain their original quality when only rotated or flipped.
- Added music and audio controls to memories.
- Improved Search with country names in the app language and each country’s native languages, more accurate city matching, better result ordering, and faster performance on large libraries.
- Added a “You” uploader filter and fixed duplicate “Someone” entries in the Uploaded by filter.
- Backup Status now shows per-file progress, large multipart uploads are more reliable, and large uploads use less memory.
- Added Backup mode on iOS to keep Ente awake and dim the display during large backups.
- Made Free Up Space more reliable on Android.
- Improved performance across Map, timeline loading, and Smart Memories for large libraries. Also fixed week grouping and reduced memory spikes when Search and Gallery load very large libraries.
- Improved timeline scrolling performance for large galleries. (@r4khul)
- Improved processing of large on-device photo libraries on Android and reduced unnecessary home-gallery reloads.
- Fixed smart albums not automatically adding newly recognized people and improved the reliability of People changes after startup.
- Fixed downloading images without file extensions, newly captured photos failing to open on Android, and incorrectly rotated photos in Android home screen widgets.
- Fixed edited photos sometimes not syncing after their originals were fetched.
- Added five-second double-tap seeking for videos. (@r4khul)
- Added a menu option to control video playback speed. (@r4khul)
- Improved video-editing reliability, including exports with mismatched audio and video durations.
- Double tapping to zoom will zoom into the tapped area now rather than towards the center of the photo.
- Fixed multiple photos animating when closing the full-screen viewer. (@r4khul)
- Reordered the selection menu and updated the share icon. (@r4khul)
- Prevented page swiping while albums are selected. (@r4khul)
- Fixed the image-editor tune slider showing an active track at the neutral position. (@r4khul)
- Made the support email easier to find and copy when reporting an issue.
- Redesigned the referral screen.
- Improved handling of network disconnections in the payment screen. (@r4khul)
- Fixed clipping and error handling in the billing questions widget. (@r4khul)
- Improved coordination between foreground and background machine-learning processing and fixed cleanup of downloaded machine-learning models.