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Immich vs Teable

A side-by-side editorial comparison of Immich and Teable — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.

Immich vs Teable: at a glance

FeatureImmichTeable
SectorCollabCollab
Velocity score6.37.5
Sparks · 30d02
Top themesself-hosted, photo-management, ai-search, face-recognitionno-code-database, ai-agents, mcp, structured-queries
Last editorial update1mo ago2d ago
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What is Immich?

Immich's v3.2 RC ships a new search UI and face clustering, advancing self-hosted photo discovery.

Immich is in active release cadence: v3.0 landed workflows, plugins, mobile editing, HLS streaming, and OCR; v3.2 is now in its third RC with a new search UI, face cluster groups, and a rebuilt search API. The RC turnaround pace suggests the team is in cleanup mode ahead of a stable release. It's a self-hosted Google Photos alternative with a large community of contributors across server, mobile, and web.

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What is Teable?

Teable's Structured Query v2 now reports across multi-hop relations, with a strict mode against SQL.

Teable ships near-daily. The October 27 release extends Structured Query v2 to same-project relational reporting across one-to-many, many-to-many and up to three-hop relations, with aggregates, grouping and permissions checked at every hop; new SQL-based query definitions now get warnings, with an optional strict mode that rejects them. The same release adds atomic record upsert on a unique field, a Table Operations console for admins, an Artifact Manager, and paginated base listing over MCP and CLI.

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Immich vs Teable: editorial side-by-side

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Immich
COLLAB
6.3

Immich's v3.2 RC ships a new search UI and face clustering, advancing self-hosted photo discovery.

◆ Current state

Immich is in active release cadence: v3.0 landed workflows, plugins, mobile editing, HLS streaming, and OCR; v3.2 is now in its third RC with a new search UI, face cluster groups, and a rebuilt search API. The RC turnaround pace suggests the team is in cleanup mode ahead of a stable release. It's a self-hosted Google Photos alternative with a large community of contributors across server, mobile, and web.

◆ Where it's heading

The product is moving from Google Photos parity toward differentiation through extensibility and AI-assisted organization. Workflows and plugins opened the automation surface in v3.0; the new search UI and cluster groups in v3.2 close the discovery gap. That combination — automation plus better semantic search — is the basis for a self-hosted photo library that replaces cloud products in daily use rather than just archiving them.

◆ Prediction

v3.2 stable will ship within days given the current RC pace. After that, expect the workflow engine to get additional triggers and actions, and possibly AI-assisted album creation tied to the new cluster groups and search API.

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Teable
COLLAB
7.5

Teable's Structured Query v2 now reports across multi-hop relations, with a strict mode against SQL.

◆ Current state

Teable ships near-daily. The October 27 release extends Structured Query v2 to same-project relational reporting across one-to-many, many-to-many and up to three-hop relations, with aggregates, grouping and permissions checked at every hop; new SQL-based query definitions now get warnings, with an optional strict mode that rejects them. The same release adds atomic record upsert on a unique field, a Table Operations console for admins, an Artifact Manager, and paginated base listing over MCP and CLI.

◆ Where it's heading

Since the chat-first preview on October 21, each release has moved more of the product onto structured queries that agents can use safely, and away from raw SQL. Admin and integration tooling (upsert, complexity assessment, MCP pagination) is now arriving to support larger workspaces built this way.

◆ Prediction

Expect strict mode to tighten toward a default and the remaining query gaps, such as cross-project relations and sorting by to-many fields, to close next.

Alternatives to Immich and Teable

Other Collab products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Immich or Teable.

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Recent activity from Immich and Teable

Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.

  1. 2d agoTeableMulti-hop Structured Queries, SQL strict mode, atomic upsert
  2. 6d agoTeableStructured Query V2 lookups, form pre-fill, AI-guided routines
  3. 7d agoTeablequeries.yaml for apps, routines page, Cmd+K command palette
  4. 8d agoTeableQuery dependencies via CLI/MCP and schema impact analysis
  5. 8d agoTeableChat-first workspace preview, named queries, data-retention controls ⚡
  6. 13d agoTeableOfficial MCP server with OAuth for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor ⚡
  7. 1mo agoImmichv3.2.0 RC3: bug fixes before stable release
  8. 1mo agoImmichv3.2.0 RC2: search UI and face merge bug fixes
  9. 2mo agoImmichv3.2.0 RC1: new search UI, face cluster groups, memories view ⚡
  10. 2mo agoImmichv3.2.0-rc.0: fix: build release branch images instead of re-tagging main (#31064)
  11. 4mo agoImmichv3.0.0 RC3: webhook actions and bug fixes
  12. 4mo agoImmichv3.0.0 RC2: bug fixes ahead of stable release

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Immich and Teable?

They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Teable is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 6.3), with 2 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.

Is Immich better than Teable?

Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Teable is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 6.3), with 2 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Collab products to evaluate alongside.

What are the best alternatives to Immich?

Top Immich alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Immich alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/immich for the full list with editorial commentary on each.

What are the best alternatives to Teable?

Top Teable alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Teable alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/teable for the full list with editorial commentary on each.