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title: Collaboration
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description: Collaborate with other people using shared albums and public links
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---
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# Collaborate
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Ente allows you to collaborate with people in 2 ways:
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- Collaborative albums
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- Collaborative links
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## Collaborative albums
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Collaborative albums allow multiple Ente users to add photos to the same shared
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album. Storage is only counted once, irrespective of the number of collaborators
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and viewers.
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- The owner of the album is the person who created it.
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- The owner can add collaborators and viewers by their email. The owner can also
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change permissions of participants at any time, and remove them.
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- Collaborators can add photos (and videos) to the shared album.
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- The storage of the photo is counted towards the owner of the photo - the
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person who uploaded it. Since the uploader usually has the photo in their
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account anyway, effectively this means that the photo can be added to a
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collaborative album without paying anything extra.
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- The owner of the photo can remove it from the album (or delete it).
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- The owner of the album can remove all photos from the album (they can only
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delete the photos they own).
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- When a collaborator is removed from a shared album (or when they leave the
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album), any photos they'd uploaded will also be removed.
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Currently collaborative albums can only be used from the mobile app. A
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collaborator will see them in view only mode in the web and desktop apps; we're
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actively working on adding support for them on web and desktop too.
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## Collaborative links
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Collaborative links allow you to collaborate with people who might not have an
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Ente account or the Ente apps.
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- You can create a public link, and anyone with access to the link will be able
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to view the shared photos using just their web browser (no login required).
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- You can enable the "Allow adding photos" option on a public link to allow
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people to also add photos the same way (from their web browser, no login
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required).
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Such collaborative links are also sometimes called "collect links", since they
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allow you to collect photos from people without them needing Ente accounts. A
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common use case for this is collecting event and trip photos from a big circle
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of people.
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The storage for the photos added to a collaborative link are counted towards the
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album owner. The owner can also remove these photos at any time.
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