# immich-go

12 Hacker News commenters recommended immich-go and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free command-line tool that imports Google Takeout archives into Immich, keeping metadata, albums and tags intact.

## Why people recommend it

- Keeps metadata and albums intact (3 comments): "I got everything migrated via immich-go, with all metadata albums and all. Had to change some parallelization option, but otherwise it was a breeze." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771894)) "it will parse all the metadata and recreate albums as you have in GPhotos" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767758)) "it maintained all meta data" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50217783))
- Bulk imports Google Takeout archives (2 comments): "Have you tried https://github.com/simulot/immich-go for dealing with the some of the complexity of google takeout?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575757)) "Shout out to immich-go, a cli tool for bulk uploads from Google takeout archives." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539115))
- Go-to tool for importing photos (3 comments): "Better in that case to import all the photos and let immich handle them moving forward using a tool like" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768839)) "just use immich-go to import them" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771234)) "immich-go has what you need" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767935))
- Works well in practice (2 comments): "It works great, and has gobs of import options to set up albums and tags." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841444)) "I can confirm that this works really well." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792597))

## What people warn about

- Bugs can botch imports (2 comments): "ridden with bugs and basically abandonware by now" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771565)) "they were botched either by immich-go or iOS app" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772409))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [iCloud Photos Downloader](https://hackerapproved.com/p/icloud-photos-downloader.md): 18 recommend
- [PhotoSync](https://hackerapproved.com/p/photosync.md): 12 recommend
- [icloudpd](https://hackerapproved.com/p/icloudpd.md): 8 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "immich-go", https://hackerapproved.com/p/immich-go/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).