I’m currently using Fossify Galery and I’m wondering if there’s any open source gallery with facial recognition, or OCR, or something more like the corporate apps.
Immich. But it requires a server (that you need to set up) to do the processing.
This one has a beautiful UI and does face-based grouping of photos: https://github.com/IacobIonut01/Gallery
I’ve been using it for five minutes and it looks better than all the other ones.
I am not aware on any on device ones that aren’t tied to a service (e.g. Ente does it on device because of E2E encryption meaning they can’t do it on the server) but I think you need an account or to self-host the service.
There are options (other than ente) if you can self host, but (other than ente) the server will be doing the processing.
Simple gallery (pro)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simplemobiletools.gallery.pro
https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Gallery
(edit: didn’t read the entire post like a fool. No facial recognition but still a solid gallery app)
SimpleMobileTools has been sold to a questionable Israeli publisher called ZipoApps two years ago.
I’m advising anyone still using them to switch to the Fossify App Suite, which are the forks created as a reaction by some of the original developers.