Hello, does anyone have any recommendations for a good gallery app for android?
Ideally FLOSS. As a replacement for google photos. No cloud features needed.
I am currently testing:
But would welcome any further recommendations or experiences with these apps.
I like Aves a lot, which you mentioned. Very lightweight and snappy. My only gripe is the editing UI/UX is a bit clunky, but I’d rather do proper editing at my desktop anyway.
I did use Ente Photos for a while, so I’d recommend it based on my experience from a year ago. I believe they have cloud backup options too, but I never needed it.
I am quite conflicted on choosing one out of both Aves Libre and ReFra as both are very solid picks. I use both since ReFra still has some bugs all over.
Refra - Material 3 based UI, local models for categorisation and search. The categorisation models are a hit and miss but the cutout feature works very well. There’s also syncing functionality for Immich supposedly but I have never used it. Some bugs here and there but not entirely deal breaking. Also, GrapheneOS is supposedly building their gallery app based off of ReFra, so that could be another positive.
Aves Libre - Also, great UI and a very polished experience all around. Never experienced any bug during my time of usage. Lacks an inbuilt editor if I’m not wrong which prompted me to switch to ReFra. Otherwise, works as you want it to.
Fossify Gallery - Stable and solid offering but my complaint about it (actually, the whole Fossify suite) is they are severely outdated in terms of design. Not really anything else to say about it. It just works.
I try to use as many apps as possible from Accrescent store so I now use Aves. Before I used Fossify Gallery. Both work great.
I use ReFra, because I much prefer the UI and you can link to self-hosted immich, NextCloud/owncloud servers, WebDav and SMB, and Aves Libre because it has more comprehensive meta data deletion.
Personally I really like ReFra, and the next release is a getting a decently big overhaul. I think there’s a general ui update, redesigned photo editor with more functions and a new video editor.
They’re adding another categorization/search model that’s apparently better, and OCR in the next release.
They are, but it’s an older version with only image categorization (no people, image cutout, OCR, video editor, metadata removal, less photo editing features, and vault is removed).
I’m not sure Aves removes everything based on this discussion.
Similarly, Aves Libre shows all attributes, but also falls short to remove the exotic ones.
I’m curious how the one ReFra is adding will compare since I think it’s a more complete one in 6.0.0, and not just location removal anymore.
Thank you all. Looks like I’ve picked the right three to test. I’ll try them all for a bit longer and report back.
fossify is simple and good
That’s great. OCR and a QR code recognition (hopefully in the future) would be a great addition to the app.
I think that was kind of expected for a project from GrapheneOS. I am pretty sure they would also harden it to meet their standards. I hope some of those changes make it to upstream too
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Mandatory Lavender Photos mention
Very fast and bloatfree
Lol another one
Accrescent is alpha software and the developer favors random projects to be on there. It is not in any way a measure for how good an app is XD
The developer of Accrescent didn’t pick the apps on there specifically. It was whoever applied to join and was willing to deal with the dev stuff in the alpha state. They plan to open app submissions again probably Q1 or Q2 next year last I heard.
The backend and dev related things have been getting a lot of work to make it more stable and easier to use for devs. Then they will work on adding features to the app like preview images. Yes, this was the right play, so that there’s less work in the future to port over features to new backend and more devs would be willing to add their apps if their side is easier to use.
There’s already plenty of open source projects waiting for them to open up app submissions.