I would very much like this as I've freed myself from Google Photos but still tend to have to go to where they are stored on my SDcard to see everything.

Top CRITICAL, This is was keep me stucked in the Google world.
But removing meta data is an absolutely terrible Idea, metadata is a "Must have" to keep for me.

Yes, maybe you can switch metadata on and off

The Photos app really needs an on-device AI search that makes it easy to find specific photos based on their content, date, tags, albums, or even location metadata. It should also have a feature to find similar photos, like JottaCloud does, so you can quickly pull up that product photo you took months ago in a store or that hilarious memory you want to show a friend. The AI should respect privacy by using pre-trained models that don’t rely on user data. Plus, the app needs to load photos fast and have a simple, clean design that helps you easily find what you’re looking for—even in a huge library. The app should also have the option to delete photos that have already been uploaded from your phone.

Proton, what you said is NOT what we want!

We want either a standalone "Proton Photos" app just like Google Photos OR adapt Proton Drive to have a section that behaves like Google Photos where we have albums and correlate to what's on our computers and phones, where you can search photos by date or tags, and scroll down the photos. We need something like Google Photos or Ente ASAP!

It would be useful to have an application for Windows, because every time I go to the site and download photos to my Windows disk!

Want men to buy Visionary?

Proton Photos needs major upgrade to look more like Google Photos or Ente Photos.

While this is 'out', it's not a fully-fleshed-out feature.

There are no location or GPS tags, it fails to readily identify the time and date tags on videos, there's no way to create or collaborate on albums and share those albums with friends/family, etc.

I, too, wish to finally be completely rid of Google, but this is not an adequate alternative yet.

The photos backup folder needs to be accessible from Drive on a browser. It needs to be shareable so that others can upload folders to it. I want to be able to share access to that folder with others so they can view and add folders to it, so that we have a shared family folder.

Absolutely critical! Using Proton Drive for photos is absolutely terrible without having to scroll through thousands of photos and mind you the terrible latency of loading thumbnails.

This would be cool, but there are other apps which do effectively the same thing. GrapheneOS comes with their own privacy respecting gallery app and there are a handful on the F-Droid store.

Came here to vote for a Proton Photos app. Though I think removing meta data should be an option. Just looking for an alternative to mainstream options that I could bundle with my existing Proton subscription. I'm currently testing Ente but a Proton Photos app would be lovely.

You have to think this through. If you remove meta data, then you can't organize or search by: date, location, device, etc.

If the Op means syncing with a PC as a backup then yes, its absolutely critical imho.

The current functionality of only backing up to the cloud is not a convenient way of managing foto's as it means manually downloading everything from the cloud using the webbrowser. This wastes user time when i could be automatically synced and relatively speaking costs a lot of effort which is also directly related the number of foto's being made and accessibility to your PC. Syncing photo's is a basic part of daily life where most everybody has a camera in their pocket all the time...

Please acquire Ente

Proton Drive photo backup is great, functionality-wise it's doing the thing it promised. The UX leaves something to be desired. I've come to really like the timeline UI from the Google Photos web UI. Would love to see something like that implemented for Proton Drive as well, allowing me to quickly scroll to a specific day/month/year. Eventually a separate Proton Photos app would be nice, although I'm fine without it for now.

Ok so, automatic photo backup on Android is great, that's a much appreciate step.
Now, next, as a paying user, I'd love to actually have an alternative app to also be able to watch at my photos, in a reasonably decent way (something like Ente maybe?).
I fully agree with suggestions here: https://www.howtogeek.com/things-i-want-from-proton-besides-ai-and-crypto/#a-better-alternative-to-google-photos-and-icloud

the new proton photos feature just not there yet.
there is no album\folder option, you cannot download photos from ProtonDrive to your photos library (on iPhone in my case). no photo information available, like location and other stuff. no search option (Google photos has great search feature to search objects, places etc.)
these thing that currently keep me from subscribing to a paid Proton plan and keep my photos in Ente.

For inspiration or a partnership, look into Ente Photos

Proton, Thank you for giving us the iOS App for picture/phone backups but really could use support for .HEIC and other Apple/Picture/Video formats. Without this support to be viewed on the web browser or in the app this all becomes very UN-usable. I would rather support Proton vs Google or Microsoft! Help us Help you.