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File Management	For our more technical readers, self-hosting file management tools can provide additional privacy assurances by having maximum control over your data.

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Self-hosting your own file management tools may be a good idea to reduce the risk of encryption flaws in a cloud provider's native clients.

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Photo Management

PhotoPrism

PhotoPrism is a platform for managing photos. It supports album syncing and sharing as well as a variety of other features. It does not include end-to-end encryption, so it's best hosted on a server that you trust and is under your control.

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File Sharing and Sync

FreedomBox

FreedomBox is an operating system designed to be run on a single-board computer (SBC). The purpose is to make it easy to set up server applications for use cases like sharing files.

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Nextcloud

Nextcloud is a suite of free and open-source client-server software for creating your own file hosting services on a private server you control.

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Warning

We don't recommend using the E2EE App for Nextcloud as it may lead to data loss; it is highly experimental and not production quality. For this reason, we don't recommend third-party Nextcloud providers.