Google Photos alternative
As of 17 Oct 2026, 14 Android apps can take over from Google Photos. Your pictures stay on your phone, and the cloud is your choice. Start with Piktures.
Same photos. New gallery
A fast gallery for the photos on your phone, and the ones in your Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Nextcloud or NAS. All in one timeline. No account to make.
Free with a few ads. One-time or monthly plans remove them and unlock every feature. Hand-checked 17 Oct 2026.
The things people use Google Photos for, and which alternatives do them today. Hand-checked against each maker's own pages.
| Feature | Google Photos | Piktures | Aves Libre | Fossify Gallery | Ente Photos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browse the photos on your phone | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edit photos | ✓ | ✓ | Basic | ✓ | Basic |
| Hide private photos | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Open photos already in Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox | Its own cloud | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Your own server or NAS | — | ✓ | — | — | Self-host |
| Automatic backup | ✓ | Paid plans | — | — | ✓ |
| Works without an account | Google account | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
Source: each maker's website, read by a person on 17 Oct 2026. "—" means not offered, as far as the maker says.
14 apps that show, sort and edit your photos. Sort by any column.
| App ▼ | What it does | Price | Updated ▼ | Min Android ▼ | Get it |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PikturesGallery for phone, cloud and NAS |
Same photos. New gallery | Freemium | Hand-checked 17 Oct 2026 | Android 11+ | Google Play |
Stingle Photos |
Stingle Photos is a secure, end-to-end encrypted gallery and sync app | Free | 5 Jul 2026 | Android 6.0+ | F-Droid |
MemoriesVarun Patil |
Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app | Free | 26 Jan 2026 | Android 11+ | F-Droid |
Les Pas |
A photo album that saves all your precious memory in your private cloud | Free | 2 Sept 2026 | Android 8.0+ | F-Droid |
Gallery for PhotoPrismOleg Koretsky |
A convenient gallery for PhotoPrism with plenty of useful features | Free | 28 Sept 2026 | Android 5.0+ | F-Droid |
Ente Photosente |
Ente Photos is an photos app, that provides end-to-end encrypted bac | Free | 12 Oct 2026 | Android 8.0+ | F-Droid |
Photos on your phone are already there. Only the ones that live in Google's cloud need a trip.
Use Google's own export tool for anything not on the phone. Keep the old app for now.
Open the new app and allow Photos and videos. Your albums appear on their own.
Open a photo from Files, choose the new gallery, tap Always.
It depends on where your photos live. If they are on your phone and in clouds like Drive or OneDrive, Piktures shows them together. If you want a fully offline gallery, Aves Libre and Fossify Gallery are good starts. If you want encrypted backup, look at Ente Photos.
No. Photos saved on the phone stay in its DCIM and Pictures folders, and every gallery reads them. Photos that only live in Google's cloud stay there until you export them.
Yes. Piktures opens photos in Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Koofr and Yandex Disk. With Google Drive it sees the files it uploaded itself.
Yes. Most apps in the table are free. Piktures is free with a few ads, with optional one-time or monthly plans.
Not for most of them. Piktures, Aves Libre and Fossify Gallery work without signing up. Backup services such as Ente Photos need one.
