Xiaomi Gallery alternative
As of 19 Oct 2026, 13 Android apps can replace Xiaomi Gallery as your default. They read the same photos, so nothing moves. Start with Piktures.
Same photos. New gallery
A fast gallery that opens with a swipe, edits photos and videos, and keeps private shots in a Secret Space. Works the same on every Android phone, Xiaomi or not.
Free with a few ads. One-time or monthly plans remove them and unlock every feature. Hand-checked 21 Oct 2026.
The things people use Xiaomi Gallery for, and which alternatives do them today. Hand-checked against each maker's own pages.
| Feature | Xiaomi Gallery | Piktures | Aves Libre | Fossify Gallery | Ente Photos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Browse the photos on your phone | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edit photos | ✓ | ✓ | Basic | ✓ | Basic |
| Private album | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Xiaomi Cloud / other clouds in the gallery | Xiaomi Cloud | Drive, OneDrive, NAS | — | — | Ente cloud |
| Your own server or NAS | — | ✓ | — | — | Self-host |
| Automatic backup | ✓ | Paid plans | — | — | ✓ |
| Works without an account | Xiaomi account | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
Source: each maker's website, read by a person on 21 Oct 2026. "—" means not offered, as far as the maker says.
13 apps that can be your default gallery on a Xiaomi or Redmi phone. 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 |
Tulsi GalleryAKS Labs |
A sweet looking photos gallery app for android! | Free | 1 Jun 2025 | Android 11+ | F-Droid |
ReFraIacobIonut |
A modern, media gallery | Free | 2 Sept 2026 | Android 10+ | F-Droid |
Prism GallerySoretake |
A private, offline photo gallery with four beautiful, animated design styles | Free | 12 Oct 2026 | Android 10+ | F-Droid |
MemoriesVarun Patil |
Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app | Free | 26 Jan 2026 | Android 11+ | F-Droid |
MA PhotosVayun Mathur |
A photos app with a full editor and on-device AI search | Free | 15 Oct 2026 | Android 12+ | 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 |
Lavender Photoskaii-lb |
A no non-sense, stylish, and performant gallery app | Free | 31 Aug 2026 | Android 11+ | F-Droid |
Iris GalleryMohamad Oday |
Fast, private, 100% offline gallery with photo editor and EXIF inspector | Free | 15 Oct 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 |
Fossify GalleryFossify |
Gallery with Photo editor. No Ads, Private. No strings attached | Free | 14 Oct 2026 | Android 8.0+ | 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 |
Aves LibreThibault Deckers |
Gallery and metadata explorer | Free | 18 Oct 2026 | Android 7.0+ | F-Droid |
Nothing to copy. A new gallery reads the same folders Xiaomi Gallery does.
Pick one from the table. Keep Xiaomi Gallery for now.
Open the new app and allow Photos and videos. Your albums appear on their own.
Settings, Apps, Default apps. Then live with it for a week.
For a gallery that also opens your clouds and your NAS, start with Piktures. For something small and offline, Fossify Gallery or Aves Libre. All of them read the same photos Xiaomi Gallery does.
Usually not, because it ships with the phone. You don't need to. Set another gallery as the default and Xiaomi Gallery stays out of the way.
No. They stay in the same folders on your phone. A new gallery reads them in place, so there is nothing to copy and nothing to undo.
Photos that only live in Xiaomi Cloud stay there until you export them. Piktures opens Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox and a NAS next to the photos on your phone.
Piktures has a Secret Space behind a PIN. Ente Photos encrypts what you back up.
