u/nuno742

I've been building IMAGO (mandatory disclaimer: Vibecode was used), an Android photo editor that opens the library you already have on your Immich server and gives it what a gallery doesn't: light, color, curves, masks and recipes. When you export, the result goes back to Immich at full resolution, **stacked on the original**, so your timeline doesn't fill up with copies.

Before it can go on Google Play, it has to pass a closed test with real people for 14 days. I'm looking for Immich users to join.

How it works with Immich

- You connect with your server URL and an API key. Immich 2.6.0 or later.
- One library can have several addresses (home and away); the app uses whichever answers.
- Edits are stored as recipes. The original file on your server is never rewritten.
- Exports go back stacked on the original. You can also share photos and videos from any other app straight to your Immich server.
- The API key only needs nine permissions: `user.read`, `asset.read`, `asset.view`, `asset.download`, `album.read`, `asset.upload`, `stack.create`, `asset.update`, `asset.delete`. The app lists them, and what it does with each, when you connect.

The editor

- Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks; temperature, tint, vibrance, saturation; texture, clarity, dehaze; vignette and grain
- Tone curve, HSL in eight bands, color grading wheels
- Linear and radial masks
- Crop and straighten, nine built-in recipes plus your own, full history
- Runs on the phone's GPU at 16 bits per channel; tablets get a side panel
- Also works with no server at all, on the phone's own gallery

Privacy

Your server address and API key stay encrypted on the device and never leave it. Pixels never touch my servers. There's an optional account that syncs recipes and presets between devices; without it, nothing leaves the phone. No ads, no analytics.

IMAGO works with Immich but isn't affiliated with or endorsed by the Immich project.

Want to test? (Android 12 or later)

1. Join the testers group with the Google account you use on the Play Store: https://groups.google.com/g/imago-test/members
2. Open this link on your phone and tap "Become a tester": https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.studio742.imago
3. Install from the Play Store, and please stay in the test for 14 days.

Bug reports and blunt opinions are very welcome

It's a very remote gym I passed more then 2 years ago, apparently no one goes there.

It's sad it's only going to be 50 coins...

I'm the family photographer in my group — weddings, holidays, reunions, the lot. I've been using Immich for a while and it's been great, but every time I shared an album with someone it felt a bit flat. Just a grid of thumbnails. No way to tell the story of the day, add context, or make it feel like something worth sitting with.

So I built Mémoire — a self-hosted layer on top of Immich that turns albums into proper photo stories.

The basic idea: you connect it to your Immich instance, pick an album, and instead of a grid you get a block-based editor — heroes, photo grids, text, maps, dividers. You compose the story, publish it, and share a clean public link. Guests don't need an account. They can comment on individual photos or leave a general note at the end.

There's a smart import mode that analyses metadata (timestamps, GPS, orientation) to auto-generate a first layout — hero candidates surface based on composition scoring, photos cluster by time and place into sections, and portrait/landscape shots are mixed intelligently rather than dumped in uniform grids.

The goal was something closer to a photo book than a photo app.

Still early but functional. Would love feedback from anyone who shares a lot of photos with family or groups.

→ github.com/paulomarques742/immich-story-builder