I'm really happy with ente.io, you could consider buying them.

This feature is a must. Please make it happen.

I Like that Proton Drive has photos & Storage in one app. We dont need an app for every Single Feature.

Even a companion app for the new photos/albums update in Proton drive. Customise and control what photos are synced with proton drive directly. (Frequency and also allow filters for not including certain tagged images or screenshots etc.)

Cleans up the clunky way of syncing with something much simpler to implement but giving users control over their data. Doesn't force users to use the service if they don't want to, and can also offer a great entry service for prospective users.

Would be a great step towards a unifying experience for people who use various ecosystems.

Same like Ente Photos

Proton Photos:

A Gallery-based application, designed for the management and consumption of media, which are stored on the Proton Drive.

Have 2 options, one to choose to download the media in a compressed quality and the other in the original quality, a solution to avoid excessive storage consumption. And when you are connected to the internet, temporarily download the media in original quality.

Automatic upload of media, but keeping the original structure of the folder.

Option to create more than one "General Gallery", to separate media/albums from work and family media, in case you wanted to access media in public and don't want to expose your professional life to other people. Basically don't display certain albums in a "General Gallery", and display and another.

Choose whether offline media in original or compressed quality can be displayed in other apps or continue only in Proton Photos.

Choose whether to download the media, or just consume it online via the internet.

Advanced editing options, with the option to upload a new edited version of the file or as a new file to Drive.

Would love this. Is it not possible for proton to work together with open source app like immich or photoprism or as mentioned below Ente photos? In its current state photos in proton drive is not useful for me as it is lacking to much functions.

Would love this. Is it not possible for proton to work together with open source app like immich or photoprism or as mentioned below Ente photos? In its current state photos in proton drive is not useful for me as it is lacking to much functions.

It's great to have a photo backup. But I can't acces them from my computer with Proton Drive. Why is it not integrated in the Proton Drive program for Windows? I want to organize my pictures on the computer rater then on a web page.

Can you create a separate Proton Photos instead of being under Proton Drive? The best idea is to partner with Ente or acquire them. They are doing a great job and a great alternative to Google Photos. I'm all in into Proton, but need to pay Ente as your Photos app is far from enough.

Separate Photos from Proton Drive, creating a standalone service called Proton Photos, with its own respective apps.

Proton can say how serious they are about people leaving Google all they want, but if they aren't going to release an actual Google Photos alternative, then all they're doing is keeping people on Googles infrastructure and in many cases keeping them from switching to Proton's.

It's a complete joke that there is no "Proton Photos" app. This should be priority No. 1. Proton Drive is NOT a suitable alternative. It's not even a reasonable option.

Please do this

Actually, what could really up the game here is a Proton photo app for Photos and Videos that automatically has a duplicate - cleaner service in it. The ability to tag/ like/ photos according to user face recognition/ gps location I am not sure how that could work with the privacy encryption but could be an optional section within the app. Just to make it easier to find/ catalog and tag pictures and remove duplicate pictures all in one. I can't think of anyone having implemented a duplicate/ similar picture- video cleaner in app.

Ok but what about a separate app just for photos? separated from the main Drive? where we can like and group photos like in iphoto?

To have a new ProtonPhotos app would be fantastic. Drive is cool for photos but doens't offer the possibility to like pictures/ categorize them and acess them. An encrypted vault inside of ProtonPhoto would be fantastic too

USER STORY: As a Proton Visonary user, I'd like to have a Photos App (similar to Google Photos) that houses all of our photos (with the option to turn off metadata filtering/searching) so that we can manage our library of photos (to tag by face, location, or other metadata).

..or at least make it easier to view photos on a shared Proton Drive link, instead of having to click the 3 dots and then chose preview.

I agree with many of the comments below.
There should be a separate photos app if possible and the photos should be accessible as a folder within Drive.
Also, please give us the option to create albums, add searching functionalities, ...
Keep up the great work!

It would definitely be the killer application for proton unlimited! On drive it's a good start but something similar to google photos or ente.io would be a game changer