Your photos.
Freed from the cloud.
Forever.

Most people want more than just a backup copy of their old photos. They want to stop paying Google entirely — and have their phone automatically back up new photos somewhere they actually own.

Unchained Home is an Umbrel home server running Immich — the gold standard open-source Google Photos replacement — pre-loaded with your entire migrated library and fully configured before it ships. Plug it into your router, install the Immich app on your phone, and every photo you take from that day forward backs up automatically over your home wifi.

Immich does everything Google Photos does — facial recognition, smart search, shared albums, a timeline view, map view, memories — all running on hardware in your home. No subscription. No corporation. No surveillance. See what stops when your photos leave the cloud →

⚠ Note: Umbrel connects to your router via ethernet cable — a short cable run from your router is all that's needed. No wifi on the device itself.

In a household of four or five, everyone has a device. Everyone is paying for storage — sometimes on separate plans. Photos are scattered across iCloud accounts, Google libraries, and old phones that never got backed up. Nobody has a complete picture of the family's memories.

The Family Bundle migrates every library in the household — parents and kids — with HEIC conversion included for every Apple device. One order, one process, every person's photos safe.

With Unchained Home, it goes further. Every phone in the family backs up automatically when it connects to home wifi. Parents can see their children's photos in a shared family album — not because they're monitoring, but because those moments belong to everyone. When your teenager comes home from a school trip, their photos are already there.

Each family member keeps their own private library. The shared album is opt-in. It's the way family photos should work — and it's something iCloud and Google Photos can't do cleanly.

Sometimes you don't need a full home server — you just need the photos safe on something physical. A drive in a drawer that you know holds everything. The archive copy of a family member who has passed. Decades of memories rescued before an account lapses.

Unchained Archive is the simple version: we pull your library and ship it on a labeled USB drive or portable SSD. One time. No hardware setup required. No ongoing anything.