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Cross-posted for [email protected] from: https://social.fossware.space/post/197460

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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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Basically there are two good options. Simple Gallery Pro (not basic/simple in functionality but in use ๐Ÿ™‚) from GitHub and Aves gallery.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Simple Gallery Pro is a no frills Gallery app, you should try it. It is a paid app on the Play Store but available for free on F-Droid. I've heard that the developer is pushing the Pro version by removing many old features from the normal version, so the developer may remove more features to be put behind a paywall. Just beware of that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

imo f-droid should be everyone's first stop in getting open source onto their android phones.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Very agree. So many amazing apps and many not available on Play Store.

Try Aves. Great gallery app.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Droid-ify (an alternate F-Droid client) + Shizuku is even better IMO thanks to automatic updating support.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing about this app though, is it's dog slow if you have thousands of photos.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I had it installed on my dad's phone and it seems to work fine. He probably doesn't have much more than 1000 photos though, so it's a non-issue for me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I think that Aves does the job pretty well. It's open source and available on f-droid and play store.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
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