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Looking for app for labelling and organizing photos

K

kiwimuso

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Hi people

I'm looking for an app that I can use to tag/label and organize photos and pictures on my cheapo Android 4.0.3 tablet. It didn't come with a "gallery" app. Just moving photos into different folders is not enough - I need to be able to apply multiple tags to each photo or picture.

Ideally the app would work offline rather than cloud based - organizing photos on the tablet's storage or on SD card.

Searching for photo tags on the app store tends to find apps for overlaying text onto photos ("BFF!"); or for friend-tagging on Facebook, neither of these is what I want.


Many thanks

km.
 
chanchan05 said:
Try QuickPic
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I've tried QuickPic, and I can't find any facility in that program (or FishBowl Gallery) to tag or label or categorize photos.

The closest I have come so far is Sony's "million moments" which lets you create up to 8 labels and assign photos to some/any/none of those labels.

But I was hoping to have many more labels ... is there no software out there that does this?


Thanks very much

km
 
I'm with you. I'm astonished that no one has thought to implement this feature. It seems to me a basic feature that one would expect in a computer photo organizer.
 
When you say tag or label or categorize what do you mean? Do you mean the jpg files header aka EXIF fields data? If it is png or other graphics format I doubt they have the EXIF equivalent isn't it ?

ExifInterface | Android Developers

Abvoe URL list down the EXIF attributes that can be changed. What are the attributes you want to be tag ?
 
F-Stop Media Gallery uses, makes & reads tags. I added tags in Lightroom & IDImager on my PC & this app picked them up. You can create as many as you want too. It would be a bit of a chore to add them via scrolling the a long consructed list but it does it. It is a nice browser too, though I don't like the initial auto scan for images. It's not quite as fast as QuickPic or as light. But it does what you want. There are a few other gallery apps that use tags, the names escape me though.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fstop.photo
 
F-Stop Media Gallery uses, makes & reads tags. I added tags in Lightroom & IDImager on my PC & this app picked them up. You can create as many as you want too. It would be a bit of a chore to add them via scrolling the long constructed list but it does it. Eg. It scanned my images, read & created a list of 834 tags. Nice to auto create the list but now I have to scroll that many tags from A-Z to add or remove meta data tags. So be careful what you wish for?

It is a nice browser too, though I don't like the initial auto scan for images as there is a lack of control there. As a browser, it's not quite as fast as QuickPic or as light. But it does what you want. There are a few other gallery apps that use tags, the names escape me though.

The free version has ads. Paid version is $3.00

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fstop.photo
 
Played some more with F-Stop app & found that I could exclude folders which removed tags for those images in one go. Or I could go through the list & remove a tag one by one. By removing some folders/images, I narrowed my tag list to 48. More manageable to add tags to new images via the checkmark list, but still it would get slow for lots of tags. I didn't look much further such as a way to bulk tag images, as the app kept Force Closing on me. It did this 4 times in a row doing various things so I gave up. The app is definately more cpu or ram hungry than QuickPic.

The app has a bunch of options in settings & other features that I didn't get to explore. I would prefer a version without the media player / slideshow function, perhaps so that the app was leaner & more responsive like QuickPic, though QuickPic has a slideshow component, so who knows what is slowing or crashing F-Stop on my HTC DHD, other than perhaps a lack of RAM?
 
f-stop, yes indeed. The tagging is right up front (not buried in menus). It's easy to create tags, to assign them to pictures, then to call up pictures based on tags. Also has Exclude Folder function, very nice. All the navigation is intuitive.
 
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