F-Stop Gallery Pro
July 28, 2024
More About F-Stop Gallery Pro
/// UNLOCKED FEATURES
PLACES Use the powerful and intuitive interface of Google Maps to view your media on a map. Upgrading to PRO unlocks full access to browse, edit and share any of the media shown on the map.
SEARCH Search results will return all the media that matches the search criteria instead of just 10 in the free version.
WRITE METADATA Save your tags and ratings directly into your JPG images and/or write sidecar files for all other supported file types. We write the metadata using the XMP standard so it can be read by popular applications such as Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture, and Windows Live Photo Gallery.
CUSTOM SORTING Use drag and drop to sort your media in any order you want.
CUSTOM NAVIGATION DRAWER Hide and/or edit items in the side navigation drawer.
BOOKMARKS Add unlimited bookmarks to the navigation drawer.
THEMES Unlock all themes to make F-Stop look the way YOU want.
NESTED FOLDERS Browse your media by the folder structure on your device. Very convenient if you organize your media by folders.
NESTED ALBUMS Create albums inside of albums similar to nested folders but with albums.
SMART ALBUMS Unlock all smart album conditions such as: Number of Tags, Orientation, Media Type, Extension, File Name, Size and any future additions.
START-UP SCREEN This feature allows you to select the start-up screen. Options include Folders, Albums, Tags, Ratings, etc.
★ Note for Kit Kat users: Google has removed write permissions on the SD card for ALL third party apps. We do have a workaround we implemented in v3.1+, but it does not work on all devices including the S5 and some Xperia devices.
Here is some more info:
http://lifehacker.com/android-kitkat-blocks-some-access-to-micro-sd-cards-1524997895
Latest Version
3.2.6
July 28, 2024
Seelye Engineering
Media
Android
96,651
$12.99
com.fstop.photo.key
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User Reviews
A Google user
6 years ago
Tried a bunch of gallery apps, this is the only one MUCH better and more powerful than the stock gallery. Also, no ads or privacy concerns like some others. So after a year of use I bought the full version, now I can disable what I don't need, and use the extra functions. I'm not a cloud user, but it manages the thousands of pics on my phone with no problems. Great customization, plenty of options, zoom levels as they should be, smooth operation. It just works and gets out of the way. Cheers!
A Google user
5 years ago
Was looking for a gallery app that would allow me to have sub folders and create simple albums like a "trip" folder. Which could then be filled with multiple sub folders on places we've been. I'm finally able to do that with F-stop. My only issue with this app is folders created in the album tab aren't manually updated when you delete or add more photos to your main folders. So you constantly have to re add photos to your album's subfolders to keep them updated. Fix that and it would be perfect!
Szabolcs Magyar
1 year ago
The best gallery for Android, hands down, with plenty of settings. Minus one star as the latest version has a bug that it does not always load full res image when zooming to 100%. And because tap on left/right area is still way too big, making it impossible to double tap zoom on side parts of the image when enabled, as it always changes image (especially annoying in landscape orientation). Please add an option to customize the tap area size. It's not a big development effort.
James Hoyt
4 years ago
This is by far my favorite gallery app and definitely worth the purchase. My main criticism is the protect picture feature. It's a joke. All it does is move your protected images to a different folder and encrypts the filename. The actual file isn't encrypted just renamed a random string and a jfif extension instead of jpeg. If you change the extension, you can open the image... F-Stop not needed. This program needs to actually encrypt.
A Google user
5 years ago
I like the app... Obviously i paid for it... But for quite awhile now every picture that I've edited with Google photos appears distorted when opened with this app. I dunno what the issue is but it's starting to make me look for another alternative. I've tried deleting clearing and reinstalling multiple times, I've even tried different phones.
korteks visceralzen
2 years ago
Suggest you add more options for customizing and displaying exif info in the overlay. We should be able to pick from the entire menu of exif data (and include a color histogram). Aspect ratio would also be cool. I mostly use this app in Samsung Dex for rating and culling my DSLR pics. Thanks for the quality app:). UPDATE: That is so nice! Ty:).
Merula Milan
3 years ago
I've been using this paid version for the nested files feature to read a manga in image format but it does... everything I can think of. tags, sorting, file info editing, It works exactly as needed so far (and then some.) it's awesome to sort through my HUGE folders (the manga is like 8 thousand pages in 40 subfolders) and honestly that's Quite A Feat lol. anyway, it's absolutely worth the money if you like the free version :D
A Google user
5 years ago
I needed looping video and thought "surely this amazing, powerful photo app I bought, regarded as one of the top galleries on Android, has something as basic as looping video". And then it didn't... There also isn't any way to view photos by filtering with more than one tag at a time, so tagging is pointless. I'm stuck using multiple gallery apps for basic features I need, and I thought Fstop was the cure, but I guess the struggle continues.
Brandon Tanabe
5 years ago
This app has potential, but a huge feature is dropped for me. For some reason, I can only tag jpg files. Other files are enabled if I turn on sidecars, but I don't want to do that, as they can easily be lost. I've written to support and on the forums about this, currently waiting for a response. Would definitely change my rating if this gets fixed!
A Google user
6 years ago
Great app and happy to upgrade to Pro even though the basic version met every need I had. Question for devs: I often use this to Slideshow a folder of pictures but randomized. I'm planning on adding to the filename "Portrait" or "Landscape" and would like to filter images by that text and then slideshow that result. Can this be done with the Pro version in some way? Perform a slideshow based on a filter result. Thanks for the answer and the great app!
A Google user
5 years ago
This is not the fastest gallery app, but i believe the tradeoff for this is that you see a better quality image rendered. The images, especially images that are not photos such as graphic wallpapers, lack any of the artifacts or banding I've seen in most other gallery apps. This is also apparent when setting an image as a wallpaper. For some reason, there is a degredation of quality when setting wallpapers with most gallery apps on android, but not with F-Stop.
A Google user
5 years ago
As an avid user of photos and videos on my cell phones I've been struggling with galleries and viewers for years. I downloaded the free version of F-stop and saw that it would do what I needed on a new phone. Once I purchased the Pro pack I realized that this is a spectacular gallery software. The difference between free and pro, paid version, is awesome! I really like it.
Sarah Leather
4 years ago
UPDATE: Apparently they never received my first email. I sent another and got a prompt response. Goran was able to resolve my issue in a few hours. I use this app to organize and tag my thousands of photos and it works great for that. It was definitely worth paying for the pro version for me. ------------------------ This is a 5-star app with 1-star customer service. I recently transferred my photos from a phone with an SD card to a new phone without an SD card. I backed up my tags and prepared the files for folder migration. When I restored from the backup, only about half of my tags were restored (I'm missing about 5,000). I emailed tech support about it over a week ago and haven't received a response. I'll be happy to revise my review if I can get help with this issue.
Mike
3 years ago
I definitely prefer it to the native gallery app. I was using Quickpics for a time, and though that app is defunct now, there was one feature it had that I can't find in F Stop, unless I'm missing it. When editing a photo, cropping it, etc... Quickpic had an option to keep the edited version next to the original, rather than moving it to the top of list for lists already sorted by date. Effectively it let the edited photo keep the same date and position. I really miss this organization feature.
Alyssa Fusato
2 years ago
Very good, plenty of advanced features to delve into. Tags and the ability to create albums with "smart rules" has been a big plus and "Open Selected" and the thumbnail panel are fantastic! There are minor UI things I wish were different, like how the bottom bar in the media viewer will float once you toggle the thumbnail panel on and off again, or the lack of search for the many, many settings. I do wish I there were date format options (month name) and a batch flip (like batch rotate)
A Google user
5 years ago
First, let me say that I rarely write software reviews. I am an avid photographer with a large photo collection. I have a nice collection of Windows based software to manage and view my photos on my PC but wanted a similar way to view them on my Android phone (Galaxy S9). My entire collection is organized using tags (IPTC/XMP) data. There are very few photo viewer / management apps that have the ability to read and/or modify this data. F-Stop has very strong support for this feature in conjunction a very well-designed interface for standard photo viewing functions. I truly couldn't be more pleased with this app. Well, well done.
A Google user
5 years ago
So far a good app, that has a folder view. Please add an option that can be enabled that will keep camera and/or screenshot folders at top no matter the sort order of folders. Also, I noticed it is unable to remove the files clip art of removed files, they still show up with an x on them and they need to be removed manually. Seems it should automatically figure this out. Thanks keep up the good work.
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!
Grace A Jopling
4 years ago
Very good app. Its ability to easily connect to my Linux network is invaluable to me. It treats its drives as if they're right on the device. This makes viewing and deleting my plethora of photos super easy. I do have complaints, though. Its inability to rename network files inline is one. You're viewing a network image and want to rename it; you have to close it, locate it among all the other images in that directory in gallery mode, long-press it, *then* you're given a rename option. This is tough when you have many similar photos! Similarly, you're not able to edit a file directly on a network drive; your only choice is to download it, edit it locally, then replace the original with the edited version. This is a BIG problem when working with thousands of images. I hope the developer fixes these problems soon. Once done I'll gladly give it 5 stars.
A Google user
6 years ago
If you are still looking for a Photo App to replace QuickPic this is it and it does so much more. I have over 70,000 photos and 400+ Folders and it's handling all of it. Plus much more types of Files, Tags, Places, Types and my Favorite is Custom Sorting. I will update later once I have a better idea of how it's going to work out. But so far I'm extremely excited about the App. Thank You Samsung Galaxy Note 8 user. Question, I would like to go back to Folder I was last using instead of the List?
