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Open source alternatives for gallery app (social.fossware.space)

submitted 1 year ago by arisnoGTO@social.fossware.space to c/technology

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Hello this is my first post on Lemmy, I have been disgruntled with Xiaomi's stock gallery app and wish to switch to an alternative that will not steal my data.

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[–] lemann@lemmy.one 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use Simple Gallery from F-droid

[–] arisnoGTO@social.fossware.space 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I downloaded it, looks nice so far.

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[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, this is the best available right now.

[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.simplemobiletools.gallery.pro/

I have not tried this but it looks nice.

[–] arisnoGTO@social.fossware.space 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thank you! I will consider it.

[–] plactagonic 3 points 1 year ago

Can confirm, I replaced bunch of useless cloud crap on my mum's phone with simple tools and she likes it. I use them too.

[–] PanaX@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really like Aves Libre.

[–] gaael 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me too, been using it for a few weeks now and it works great for me. That being said, I don't have that many photos/videos, so I don't know how it handles large content collections.

[–] Darthou@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I've been using it for a little over a month now with about 10000 items in my gallery with no issues. I really like that it reads and writes tags to each files metadata. That way it works well together with Shotwell on my desktop.

[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

Welcome to Lemmy and Beehaw! I just cross posted this over to !askandroid@lemdro.id as well in case there are more suggestions!

[–] ArkyonVeil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pardon me if I may inquire, but how exactly does Xiaomi's gallery fail, at being a gallery application? Morbid curiosity if you will.

[–] arisnoGTO@social.fossware.space 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it has a crappy video player and is bulky

[–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the video player is shit, crashes all the time. I just use VLC for the videos and the gallery app for the images.

[–] ArkyonVeil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Displaying images, truly a technological breakthrough for the modern era!

[–] auhu@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Not the gallery app, but my MIUI file manager has fucking ads

[–] lckdscl@whiskers.bim.boats 2 points 1 year ago

There's also this one if you like it lightweight.