Smart Gallery - Photo Manager

A Google user

4 years ago

Wonderful gallery app! Many apps keep a "photo roll" section where all the pictures are in one big bunch so it makes finding pictures there very tedious. With these images actually moving over to the folders, your roll is freed up making it easier to find something you haven't classified yet. The only "negative" thing I have to say about this app is that there was no link to purchase the ad Free version right from the app. With such a great tool, you should make it easy to support you! 😊

Francine Armand

4 weeks ago

Some certain vids (only some, not all video files) are playing with no audio, even with activated audio-controller on screen. But on other player(s) the same videos, are playing normal - with audio. I tried, everything, one by one: to fix it from settings, clearing the cache, resetting app (full reset by clearing storage), but it still bugged for me. I'd mention that even the bugged videos sometimes/randomly may play with audio; while some other times, the same (bugged) videos, may play "muted".

Jared Reid

1 week ago

This could honestly be a 5/5 star app... If it weren't for the inability to purchase a premium version to remove the ads. Under $10 to remove and I'm sold. It has everything you need with no crazy UI or stupid extras. Just looking for a good, clean alternative to Google's photos since I have a Pixel but don't like Google's method of photo management.

Julie Grainger

3 months ago

I like to group my photos by date. I have a lot of old photos which predates 1970, which the app doesn't show the date on. Also the photos are mostly displayed in landscape and will only change permanently to portrait if edited and saved, which then changes the date which cannot be altered on the app. Will pro fix these problems?

Bruce Cole

1 year ago

I thought it might be useful, because it has the look and feel of another Gallery app that recently decided to be a trial version. But, in order to do anything, the app requires access to the "root" directory of my SD card, which Android OS on my phone says "no, you can't." Therefore app is useless to me. Oh well.

R

3 years ago

I'm trying this free version (as I do with all apps, if possible) before upgrading to paid version. Phone: Nokia 2.2 Android 11 SD card formatted as internal memory I have 2 issues: 1) Setting "sort order" to "date taken" fails. I get out of date order pics displayed, years off. Even using "sort by name" (camera auto names using mo/day/year/sequential number) fails. 2) 1/3 of my photos (in album or not) are not shown. Plus several of my folders fail to show all pics contained. Ideas / Help?

Mika M.

1 year ago

It looks and behaves EXACTLY like Simple Mobile Tools' gallery app. Even down to the settings and a bug ("keep old last-modified value at file operations" doesn't work). I find it that suspicious. With that said, the app works well enough as far as I can tell, though I'd just go with Simple Mobile Tools's version myself.

Pamela Underwood

4 years ago

I have used this app for over a year now. There have been short ads or you could skip them. Now you have to watch the entire ad. The Yatzie ad is 60 seconds long and when it finally ends you can't close it. It goes to a black screen which cannot be closed!! So now I can't access my photos at all!! Please put it back like it was or a lot of people are going to be deleting this app.

Jo Painting

11 months ago

The amount of ads on here basically ruin the app. I'd be ok with the occasional ad since it's a free app but I am not willing to get bombarded with ads to be able to use what should be a simple feature on a phone. This app would be a 4.5 stars for me if the ads were about 1/3 the frequency and duration. Also, don't put sound in ads, it's bad enough to take over someone's phone screen, but its next level not ok to assault them with sound that they did not ask for or approve of being pushed at us.

Erik

3 years ago

Very nice color options, but: 1. There is no way to automatically hide all folders and images of tiny file size; we must hide each one manually. 2. Nice folder View, but it is confusing because every folder has a preview of the content, so you can't tell when you're looking at folders and when you are looking at actual photos. Please allow the user to remove the automatic preview icons that appear on each folder so that it becomes clear that the user is viewing a folder and not a photo.

SSimple Sanctuary

1 year ago

TBH, even for one willing to deal with ads, this is insane. Each image you click to see produces an ad. An annoying ad that force opens Google Play when you try to close it. You then have to close both apps and start over, hence repeating the cycle after viewing 1-3 images. In addition it's requirement for audio and music files in order to view images and videos doesn't add up.

Scott Ramey

1 year ago

This app is completely bombarded with advertising. You can't even change from one picture to another without see some type of advertisement, completely utilizing the whole screen. It wouldn't be so bad if it were just a scrolling across the bottom. This app is pretty much useless if you are searching for a specific photo, it would take forever. It does do a pretty good job for keeping albums.

Nathaniel Reif

4 years ago

I enjoy the app a lot, and it had exactly the function I was looking for, mainly making subfolders. However, at one point (after I had finally gotten everything organized) it stopped putting my sub folders into a general folder and made them seperate folders, which I very much dislike. If I am doing something wrong I am not sure what, as I had tried for the life of me to fix this. Please fix this bug.

Matthew Dufour

5 months ago

Got tired of all the junk in Google Photos & was looking for a app that didn't have all the stupid, crazy permissions! This looked good, just installed it & seemed great! Update: BUT AFTER THE SECOND DAY, IT POPS ONE OR TWO ADS UP EVERY TIME YOU OPEN IT! NO! TOO MUCH JUNK! I'm uninstalling it now... If you don't mind dismissing ads every time you want to open it, it works great after you finally get it open....

Gwen Shelton

4 months ago

Ads, ads,ads Was excited about this until recently. Now everytime I try to look at an image there's an ad I can't get rid of with sound. Clicking the volume button on the screen doesn't work. And the only view is albums, no library or pictures to scroll. I'd buy the premium if offered but this is all there is. The pro version is listed under smart gallery pro- quick Pic (don't know why developer didn't just say that) However still don't see enough settings to just buying it

Mike McGee

5 months ago

*Advertiser hell.* It started out fine for the first couple days of use, now every time I try to open an image it throws a 30 second unskippable ad at me. Which is really frustrating because otherwise this is the most solid photo viewer I've seen, but this alone makes it completely unusable. This would have been bad enough if it was just trying to get you to buy the premium version to disable them. But there *is* no premium version. There is no version of this app that you can just *use*.

Susie Reed

4 months ago

Using the sideshow feature to scroll all day at work. So far it's been perfect. Easy to set up and add photos. I add more everyday. Other than a short ad when I first start the show, I haven't seen any others. I love that the slideshow just runs and doesn't pause or stick ads in randomly like other ones I've tried. It also doesn't seem to have a limit to the number of pictures I can add.