Stingle photos - Open Source end-to-end encryption gallery and sync app

m-koushan

It has 1GB life-time free plan. You can share Albums. It has its own camera app in case you don't trust your camera and it directly saves the picture in Stingle, not your device.
It's available for Android & IOS devices.
I suggest adding this to Photo Gallery Managers in website.
Feel free to tell what you think about this.
Website
Source-Code (Android)
Source-Code (IOS)

OpSec

m-koushan

The Apps hasn't been updated in quite some time. But it is open-source. Sense the apps hasn't been updated. Advanced users will not use it. For the others, they will use it because its open source and has end to end encrypted. I use ente.io, been loving it sense!

alexamiryan

Hello, Stingle Photos dev here. Apps are being updated, we have lot's of big features coming, like ML based search of objects and faces in the photos ans videos.
I am interested on the opinion of the moderators. Why Stingle Photos is not yet included in the "Photo Gallery Managers" section of the website?

Venomancer

alexamiryan ML based search of objects and faces in the photos ans videos.

That's a big pain point for some who do want to avoid all that. But I'll check out the platform regardless.

alexamiryan

We will post the spec for ML detection as soon as feature is ready. It is all done on a local device of course, because server has no visibility on the user data and then all gathered metadata is encrypted using end-to-end encryption. It doesn’t violate our philosophy of encrypting everything and not leaking any metadata

Venomancer

alexamiryan

Thanks for your quick reply. Appreciate you saying that it's E to E encyrption (so is Whataspp). I do like the in-camera function & saving directly onto Stingle features (by passing your photo location). However some users are not comfortable with ML feature, if they can avoid it they will. Best of luck sir.

alexamiryan

Venomancer I don’t think it’s comparable with WhatsApp, because WhatsApp is closed source and we have no way of verifying their claims. On the other hand Stingle Photos is open-source and anybody can verify that it doesn’t do anything nasty.

Now about the ML. I understand the psychological thing that people just try to stay away from it no matter what, but given good cryptographic design, it can be as sexure as the rest of Stingle Photos.

What about the inclusion on privacytools.io?

Venomancer

alexamiryan

The point I was making is that E to E doesn't guarantee anything (like in Whataspp's case as you confirmed) haha. But yes difference lies in open-/closed- source.

Psychological, maybe. I'm not saying that what your team/company is doing is "not safe/pvt" or "bad" - just simply stating that not everyone is comfortable with that using ML to take certain "data points", whether listed in P_T_.io or not. 🙂

rahar

Venomancer Currently there are 2 applications in the "photo storage" section that have very similar e2e functionality. Having ML done on the device does not change the privacy level that the app provides and will be a feature that the user can turn off.

alexamiryan

Hello. Any updates on adding Stingle Photos to privacytools.io?