Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy first

Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by mceachen on Monday February 24, 2020 @12:56PM (#22406437)

> I haven't found any other way to copy photos from an iPhone into a laptop

Both SyncThing and Resilio Sync work well for this, but require your "server"/laptop to be on in order to sync.

You can also just plug in the device, and it should mount as USB storage on both Windows and Linux.

(I have no financial interest in either pieces of software, other than regularly needing to recommend them to my PhotoStructure users).

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Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by FalconSensei on Monday February 24, 2020 @01:13PM (#22406615)

So, you have to keep a computer on to sync files. And then, what about automatically tagging people, suggesting fixes (rotation, lights), searching by location name, sharing albums, etc?

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Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by mceachen on Monday February 24, 2020 @01:58PM (#22407158)

That's what I want PhotoStructure to do.

It already has best-of-class deduping, "variant" clustering support, and metadata inference, as well as a UI that makes browsing very large libraries feel serendipitous. I release roughly every month, and it's free (in exchange for feedback) during the closed beta. Here's what's coming soon: https://photostructure.com/about/release-notes/

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Re:Smartphone startups take on Google, Apple and put privacy... by robto on Monday February 24, 2020 @02:53PM (#22407731)

Do you know how to get SyncThing on an iPhone? This is the last piece in the synchronize-the-whole-family's-media-so-that-it's-easy-to-share-and-backup project! Last time I checked there was no iOS client.

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