Gallery

Replace your Gallery. Start with these.

As of 17 Oct 2026, 26 apps can replace the Gallery on Android. These 8 are where we'd start.

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The top 3

Best overall

Piktures

Gallery for phone, cloud and NAS

Your phone, your clouds and your NAS in one fast gallery. Edit photos and videos, hide the private ones, no account to make.

FreemiumChecked 17 Oct 2026Android 11+

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Best for big libraries

Aves Libre

Thibault Deckers

Browses thousands of photos without a stutter, with maps and every bit of metadata.

FreeUpdated 4 Oct 2026Android 7.0+

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Best for private backup

Backs up your photos with end-to-end encryption, so only you can see them.

FreeUpdated 12 Oct 2026Android 8.0+

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Also great. Five more.

Picked by hand, 17 Oct 2026
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AllFreeUpdated this year
22 apps · sorted by name
All 22 apps
App ▼ What it does Price Updated ▼ Min Android ▼ Get it
Wolf GalleryWolf Project
 Encrypted, offline photo & video vault with a comfortable gallery Free 19 Aug 2026 Android 9+ F-Droid
ValvArctosoft AB
 An encrypted gallery vault for Android devices Free 14 Apr 2026 Android 9+ F-Droid
Stingle Photos
 Stingle Photos is a secure, end-to-end encrypted gallery and sync app Free 5 Jul 2026 Android 6.0+ F-Droid
SmartScan
 Turn your images and videos into a personal knowledge base Free 29 Aug 2026 Android 11+ F-Droid
RepertoireAdithya Jayan
 An app for musicians to track their repertoire and media Free 14 Aug 2026 Android 7.0+ F-Droid
ReFraIacobIonut
 A modern, media gallery Free 2 Sept 2026 Android 10+ F-Droid
Prism GalleryTop 8Soretake
 A private, offline photo gallery with four beautiful, animated design styles Free 12 Oct 2026 Android 10+ F-Droid
PhotoSwooperLoowiz
 A dating app for your photos & videos Free 9 Mar 2026 Android 7.0+ F-Droid
PhotokLeon Latsch
 Private Photo Vault, Hide Photos & Videos Free 15 Oct 2026 Android 9+ F-Droid
PhotoChiotte
 media gallery and comic reader to handle huge device and online collections Free 16 Oct 2026 Android 5.0+ F-Droid
MemoriesVarun Patil
 Fast, modern and advanced photo management suite. Runs as a Nextcloud app Free 26 Jan 2026 Android 11+ F-Droid
MA PhotosTop 8Vayun 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
LegacyPhotoFrameSam Kovnar
 Turn your ancient Android tablet into a beautiful digital photo frame Free 11 Sept 2026 Android 4.4+ F-Droid
Lavender PhotosTop 8kaii-lb
 A no non-sense, stylish, and performant gallery app Free 31 Aug 2026 Android 11+ F-Droid
Iris GalleryTop 8Mohamad 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 GalleryTop 8Fossify
 Gallery with Photo editor. No Ads, Private. No strings attached Free 14 Oct 2026 Android 8.0+ F-Droid
Ente PhotosTop 8ente
 Ente Photos is an photos app, that provides end-to-end encrypted bac Free 12 Oct 2026 Android 8.0+ F-Droid
Chitralaya CloudGallery AppAKS Labs
 Transform Telegram into your personal, unlimited photo cloud storage Free 16 Jun 2026 Android 10+ F-Droid
CastLabThomas
 Cast your media to DLNA/UPnP and FCast devices Free 25 Sept 2026 Android 7.0+ F-Droid
Aves LibreTop 8Thibault Deckers
 Gallery and metadata explorer Free 4 Oct 2026 Android 7.0+ F-Droid

The first row is pinned and stays on top whatever the sort. 'Top 8' marks the apps above. Data from F-Droid and hand-checked entries, as of 17 Oct 2026. Compare with Google Photos

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How we pick the top 8: a person tries the apps and checks each maker's page, then writes the labels down with a date. How we choose