Our mobile phones have become portable cameras that we carry comfortably in our pocket. By default, all of them include a gallery-like application in which to consult the photos you have taken or received, but, as is often the case for so many other functionalities, third-party applications can be much more complete than those that come pre-installed.
If you are looking for an alternative to the native gallery app on your smartphone , we are going to share the best options with you.
Google Photos
The Google application, whether or not you use its cloud storage system, is one of the most useful for managing your local gallery on your phone. If you have a Google backup, you will have an automatic function to delete from your local storage those that have already been uploaded to the cloud.
Google Photos
Google Photos stands out for the ability of its AI to catalog photos from your gallery . You can search your photos by the people, places, and things that appear in them, without the need to manually tag them. Plus, it has built-in powerful and intuitive photo and video editing tools to apply filters, adjust lighting, and much more.
Obviously, being from Google, it is compatible with Chromecast, so you can see your photos and videos on television thanks to this compatibility.
Pictures
Piktures allows you to manage your local gallery and also mix the photos in your memory or SD with those you have stored in some cloud services (Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox and new cloud services will be added in the coming months). The application itself also works as a camera application manager, allowing you to vary between the native one or an optional one.
As for the pure photo gallery and organization functions, it includes the possibility to hide photos in secret drives accessible by PIN code or fingerprint, it supports animated GIFs and it has support for Chromecast to transmit your photos and videos directly to your TV and start a presentation of your albums (other protocols such as DLNA and Airplay are being developed).
One of the most interesting functions at the management level is the possibility of filtering photos of a specific day through a calendar view, very useful for specific photos of your birthday, Kings, etc. Piktures also comes with a QR code scanner with its own dedicated folder for previously scanned QR codes.
google-gallery
If the handling of Google Photos has not convinced you, Google itself has a second alternative, Google Gallery, defined as “a light, fast and intelligent photo and video gallery”. It is very useful to find photos quickly thanks to the automatic organization. Every night it will automatically organize your photos to group them by People, Selfies, Nature, Animals, Documents, Videos and Movies.
In addition, another of the automation options that it presents is the possibility of automatic adjustments that activate certain editing tools to give you the most perfect photo possible. Gallery has been optimized to work offline, you will be able to manage and store all your photos and videos without using up all your data.
SimpleGallery
Simple Gallery is an application developed by Simple Mobile Tools. It is a simple, modern, light and fast photo gallery and image manager app to view and organize your photos and videos. This app also allows you to quickly recover any deleted file , which can give you some peace of mind that you will not delete your memories by mistake.
Simple Gallery stands out for the customization options it offers. From the user interface to the function buttons on the bottom toolbar, it’s highly customizable and gives you the creative freedom you need in a photo gallery app.
FocusGo
Focus Go is a gallery application that seeks to be as compact as possible to speed up the process and avoid other tools that you don’t need . As its author says, «Galleries are a great canvas to display your images, cat gifs and videos in chronological order, from new to old, nothing more. You click on the image, it loads into a fancy animation and voila, full screen with touch controls.”
If this is your case and you are just looking to have your photos better organized without weighing the application down too much, in 1.5 MB of APK you have the possibility of organizing your photos in mosaics with adjustable grid sizes. To save space, previews are in low quality, but each tile is re-rendered at its best quality when you zoom.
EZ-Gallery
EZ Gallery is a gallery app that emphasizes speed and simplicity. EZ Gallery provides lightning-fast loading times, one-handed operation, and intuitive gestures that make it the only app you need for everyday use.
It has support for many different image and video formats, including GIF, JPG, PNG, MP4, MKV, and more. In addition, it also includes a slide show mode to see in succession some moments grouped in the same category.
A+Gallery
This is one of the most interesting design choices as it combines the beautiful look of Material Design and the stylistic simplicity of the iPhone design philosophy . It is also one of the best if you have photos on multiple SD cards or if you have photos on Facebook, Dropbox, Amazon, etc. as you can view and manage all those photos from one app.
A+Gallery
In addition, A+ Gallery searches for photos or videos by date, location, and even image color. Now you can search your photos based on when and where you took them, and by image color. The photo search engine in A+ Gallery does not require an Internet connection and is incredibly fast.
