15 Mobile Apps to Manage Photos
Can you guess how many photos are taken every day? It doesn’t matter what device it is taken on, a camera, smartphone, or tablet. We’re not sure either, but judging from the figures you can see in this post, it’s in the billions.
The apps shown here are available for mobile, which we’re guessing is the most popular way we take photos now. Some of them have great ways to better sort and organize your photos for you; others have handy sharing capabilities and album-making "powers".
Crunch Gallery
Always struggling to keep all your photos and videos but lacking the space to do so? Crunch is an app that can help reduce the size of your favorite photos and videos so you can store more and delete fewer of your precious memories. This also makes it less taxing on your data plan.
Crunch makes your photos smaller by up to 6 times without compromising on the quality of said photos. Videos can also be reduced to about 50% of their original size. Crunch reduces file sizes with the use of proprietary photos and video technologies.
The app offers up to 1 GB of free space, which is extensible by sharing about the app.
Google Photos
A smarter home for your photos and videos, Google Photos offers automatic backup, an organization system, and a powerful search engine to better sort and find your photos.
It gives users free unlimited storage for backing up unlimited high-quality photos and videos. You can access your photos from any device you have or via the website.
With this app, you can instantly create movies, collages, animation, and panoramas from your photos. On top of that, your photos can be edited simply and powerful by photo and video editing tools that apply filters, adjust lighting, and many more.
QuickPic
This is one of the alternative album applications which can replace the stock gallery application. QuickPic supports online cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Flickr, One Drive, Box, Xandex, 500x, and many more. You can find new pictures instantly via the filters: time and location.
Quickpic will make a slideshow view of your photos for you to scan or edit with their internal photo editor. Using its powerful management features, you can sort, rename, create new folders, and move and copy pictures easily.
Photos and videos you want to keep for your eyes only can be protected by a password. Once you are done, you can transfer your media files between multiple devices via WiFi.
Slidebox
After attending an event such as a party, you’d probably have to clear up the photos you’ve taken. You will find duplicates, blurry photos, or photos that didn’t turn out the way you want (and are beyond saving). You can clear all these things up quickly and easily with Slidebox.
Slidebox lets you organize photos and albums directly in your photo gallery. Swipe away photos you want to delete and sort the best ones into a separate album. Compare photos side-by-side to find duplicates and decide which version stays and which ones go.
Moments
Moments is a great app that helps you sync photos with friends, making it the app to have if you have a lot of gatherings, parties, and group activities. Moments recognizes your face from your profile picture and the pictures you are tagged in on Facebook. You can then swap your photos with your friends’ photos via Moments.
This app will help you to sort the photos based on who you took the photo with and when it was taken. No more email attachments or manually picking photos to send to multiple friends.
Picjoy
Picjoy makes it fun and easy to create and share stories of your pictures while keeping everything private and personal. Simply install the Picjoy application and let the organization begin quickly.
It is an intelligent photo library that automatically organizes all photos while still allowing you to create beautiful photo albums and tell the story behind your photo experience. You can also search your photos by location, weather, season, event, time, and many more categories.
1Gallery
1Gallery gives you a great source to manage your photos on your Android device. You can protect your photos by hiding them in the app and hiding your image files through encryption.
This simple app allows you to create folders and organize your photos into categories. You can also search your photos within the gallery and add a widget to your Android home screen. Plus, there’s an option to edit the photos in the gallery.
A+ Gallery
A+ Gallery helps you manage and save your photos in a reliable app. Through different themes, you can customize the app’s appearance and create different photo albums.
The app has a clean and minimal interface and can organize your photos concerning size, the date is taken, and the place where you took them. You can also password-protect your albums and easily back up your photos to any cloud storage.
Simple Gallery
Simple Gallery offers to view and edit your photos on your Android phone. It helps you browse, manage, and edit your photos and supports a number of formats including .jpg, .png, .raw, .mkw, and .mp4.
There’s an option to limit who can view or edit your photos using a password. Plus, the app is ad-free!
Gallery
To get your photos and videos automatically organized in your Android device, Gallery is the best app. It arranges your photos every night by people, selfies, animals, documents, and videos and fetches any image real fast from your gallery.
You can easily transfer your photos to and from your SD card. There’s also a feature for editing your photos right in the app. And the best part, it works equally well offline.
Memoria Photo Gallery
Created with gorgeous Material Design, Memoria Photo Gallery gives you so many ways to manage your photos in your phone’s gallery. It offers you to seamlessly navigate among your pictures, zoom in and out, and control through different swipe gestures.
With Memoria, you can choose which album you want to add to the app and which to leave out. Also, you can assign a cover photo to your albums, customize the app’s appearance, view photos in a slideshow, and search through the photos with a quick search.
PhotoSync
PhotoSync lets you to back up and transfer your photos and videos in real quick and easy way. Being available on different platforms, you can access it anywhere and transfer it to and from any platform.
It lets you transfer photos and media to a NAS device, portable hard drive, personal cloud, or over FTP, SMB, WebDAV, and SFTP.
What’s more is that you can sync your phone’s camera with the app for instant transfer of photos to your desired storage. You can also download photos from WiFi SD cards as soon as you finish your shooting.
Piktures
A one-of-a-kind app, Piktures lets you connect your Android device with your personal cloud and computer. With a powerful rendering engine, you can preview your photos really fast, and with a privacy-first approach, it does not collect the user’s personal information.
With access to all the popular cloud services and personal cloud support, it makes backing up your pictures a breeze. There’s also a powerful video player right in the app.
F Stop Gallery
A lightweight and fast photo management app, F Stop Gallery offers some really cool features. Optimized for Material Design, it allows you to search through your photos through file names and metadata.
You can set folder structure, theme, and other app settings and password-protect your images or albums. Moreover, you can share your images on social media platforms or edit them in photo editing apps.
Gemini Photos
Take control of your photos in your iOS app through Gemini. It allows you to clear duplicates and similar photos from your Camera Roll and even helps you pick the best one from similar shots.
Additionally, it helps declutter by deleting unwanted screenshots, blurred images, charts, notes, etc.