F-Stop Gallery

Alexi Valentine

2 years ago

Edit: The new version of the looping feature is much welcome, and I can strongly recommend it again. Was fine, perfect even. Last update broke the ability to loop your gallery so you can't just swipe from the start to the end of a folder. My busted old hands have trouble getting the little slide bar and that was the one feature that made all the difference for me.

Powell Lumbard

2 years ago

I was really hopeful about this app, but was let down. It will create nested albums but it can't remember to keep the album in grid mode and the album listings in list mode. I won't even talk about the ineffective ascending and descending option that doesn't recognize numbers, e.g. 2023, 2022, 2021 for the year and sort them that way. Another let down...

Aaron Romano

4 years ago

I've been using F-Stop for a number of years at this point - it's a great app. It was more difficult than I expected to find an app that reads JPG metadata (tags, ratings, comments, etc., for interoperability with Windows) - F-Stop does this well, which led me to it. It has a clean, snappy interface with lots of customization. The map view to show locations of geotagged photos is a neat and unique way of viewing your photos, and it works well. Keep up the great work!

James Ingrassia

5 years ago

This app can create meta tags that can be read in windows! This is precisely what I have been searching for. Not only does it create tags, it does so in an efficient way. For me, the gallery aspect is just icing on the cake. I tried using FastPhotoTagger for android, but the UI was slow. Been backing up my photos into dated folders including about 6 months of pictures, and make them searchable by tags. F-stop is a new must have for me. More gallery customization is always welcomed. Thank you!

Monther Tariq

4 years ago

For me the ability to use gestures or multi-touch inputs to rotate pictures (a feature in quickpic, and now in simple gallery and memoria) And now the feature I'm missing the most from quickpic is the ability to "edit" a photo directly within the app, and immediately have the option to share this edited version without actually saving it to the device first. I use that a lot to crop things on the fly and send them right away without cluttering my storage with cropped photos and full duplicates

Janos Mathe

1 year ago

Bug: Move within the app causes the moved items as Offline Media at the original location Bug: the Places view ignores the hidden folder settings. Also, developers never responded to requests. :/ Original review: The best image viewer and organizer I have found. To the developers: could you add a configuration option to the "Rating Panel", so we could add a dedicated button at the bottom to metadata organization tools like Tags and Title for faster (1-click) access?! Thanks!

A Google user

5 years ago

Great gallery app, been using this app for years, I've also purchased the pro. My only concern and problem is when I transfer/copy all gallery to a new phone, as a result, images sorting get messed up! Even if I rearrange by date, same issue. Old and new images/videos are everywhere and not organized. I really hope to find a way to fix this issue.

A Google user

5 years ago

There are plenty of apps for adding effects, filters, etc. What I wanted was a serious organizer for my photos and videos. F-Stop has it all, tags, album creation, and ratings. This is as powerful as a PC software. Edit : The limitations of writing to the SD card seems to be fixed with the recent update's to Android. This was a Android thing that severely limited my enjoyment. Now I can put many more images on my phone and use the power of Fstop to its full extent.

Benjamin Rivera

2 years ago

Images that are hidden from view that are shown in the default gallery app. How am I supposed to replace my default photo app if there are images that are not showing up? It doesn't make sense. This was an issue before, but the app was updated and it temporarily fixed, but recently this issue has been reccuring. I can see the images in my files app too.

Leland Whitlock

1 year ago

F-Stop is one of the best gallery apps out there with many functions I am only finding years later. It is easy to start with and has the power to get work done when you need it. The author is quite helpful if you need pointers. However I am temporarily removing 1 star due to the lack of an edit button on the bottom toolbar. Thank you for the quick response. I now have the edit button back!

GuyWire

1 year ago

Best Gallery IMO. The amount of features and organization functionality is tremendous. I have pro, and it's well worth it. Auto-plays Gifs and has a simple, yet solid internal video player. I only wish I could set thumbnails for videos. You can set folder thumbnails, but that is it. They do, however, have several options for how to layout your media in the folder like list, river, grid, etc. Can't list all the features here, but I highly recommend

Max Ryser

1 year ago

Previous iterations were great. But now it's HORRIBLY slow for whatever reason. It froze my phone and made it unresponsive. Had to reboot it. Not okay. They need to optimize performance. UPDATE: I contacted the developer and he was very responsive. Long story short, he fixed the issue and now everything works GREAT again! Best image viewer app on Android by far!

Francisco Liu

1 year ago

Excellent picture viewer, with lots of options and highly customizable. One observation though. While Moving/Copying files from one folder to another, and some of those files already exist, the app doesn't ask if I want to replace/rename/or skip, but automatically duplicate those files with new names. That can cause confusion in my archives and end up with a lot of duplicate files. Any way to have the option to choose what to do? Thanks

Andrew Carter

1 year ago

After using the app for a while I like it; however, it appears to have a useless cloud feature. Sure I can see the photos/jpegs on my Google drive, but sharing it to a wallpaper setting app doesn't work. I do know that the setting app works because bringing up the same photo in File Manager (by File Manager Plus) I can share it successfully to the setting app, all without setting the file available offline from within the Google Drive app.

Stefawn Thompson (Waffle King)

1 year ago

**Update: The issue below was due to the not having a transitional effect between gifs. Tidbits it to fade fixed it.** I have had this feature for years on my old phones. However, upon getting a new phone, I noticed that GIFs no longer animate in slideshows. On my S21, they did, but now they don't on the S24. Online sources mention that this feature is not available in the "free" version, but I paid to remove ads. Was that not considered an upgrade?

Chris Jensen

1 year ago

My favorite gallery, but did something change that we can no longer sort/group folders independently? It was nice to sort pictures in one folder by newest date and group by day where a second folder sorted alphabetically and not grouped. I would also like the ability to separate smart folders (within a folder) with the pictures below it. Make the distinction between the two more noticable.

Mark Bratcher

1 year ago

App moved all of my camera shots into its recycle bin and I can't restore them. I must have selected a folder when I thought I selected one image. It moved ALL of the photos (350) that I had in the camera photo. I was able to open the recycle bin in F-Stop to see them, but there's no command to restore! There is an odd icon that is a trash can with an arrow, but when I click on it, it says I need the PRO version. Really, it's going to hold me hostage with a basic feature? Sucks!