Gallery App Pixel 9 Pro

[TimB]

Loved the way the gallery app worked on my Samsung Galaxy S9+. Photos in an album could only be viewed within the album, not in the camera section. I now have a Google Pixel 9 Pro that came without a default gallery app. All my photos are in the cloud so I can view them using Google Photo. But if I create an album, the photos are still viewable in the folders. Can anyone suggest an app that works similar to the Samsung Galaxy S9+ photo app?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Google Photos has always had a somewhat different design philosophy than conventional gallery apps. The idea is that you have a giant pool of photos from the cloud and on your device (which would be the main Photos feed), from which you can create any number of virtual albums (which would be in the Collections section). The main advantage of this is that a single photo can be in as many albums as you'd like, without having to make copies of that photo. (In a conventional gallery app that bases an album on a separate physical directory, a photo file would have to be duplicated in order to appear in more than one album.)

There are a lot of 3rd party gallery apps out there, but you have to be careful, since this category is rife with shady devs who throw a lot of adware and other junk in. Simple Gallery has often been recommended as a nice alternative, but the free version apparently has a ton of ads -- you'd have to buy the paid version (Simple Gallery Pro, which is $2.99) to get rid of them.

 

[TimB]

I was hoping to first contact the Simple Mobile Tools before purchasing the Simple Gallery Pro version. Then I read that they were bought out by ZippoApps and it might not be a good app to pursue, and it seems awfully hard to find a contact person for my questions.

Then I read that the Fossify app is similar, so I might try that. With no purchase requirement I am willing to install and then see if I like it.

 

[B. Diddy]

Piktures is another one that I recall having a good reputation, but you also need to pay for the full version.

 

[mustang7757]

Look at this app also

PhotoPrism

Gallery for PhotoPrism - Apps on Google Play

A convenient gallery for PhotoPrism with plenty of useful features

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