Droid Life

Piktures is a Beautiful Gallery App With Elements of Material Design

2014 · English · Article

In a short October 2014 app spotlight, Droid Life presents Piktures as a stylish photo organiser for anyone who finds Google's own Photos app functional but plain. The writer explains the app's gesture-driven navigation. Albums are reached with a swipe and shown as a scrollable grid, a dedicated button reorganises photos and videos by date in a calendar view, and the opposite side of the screen holds filters by file type and location. The review admits that management tools are limited, noting only resizing, setting an image as wallpaper and sorting by city. In the writer's view, the developers clearly put their effort into design instead, with Material Design touches throughout. Two examples are singled out: the album's header photo fades out as the user scrolls, and switching to the calendar view plays a card-flip style transition. The article notes that Piktures is free on the Play Store and carries no advertising. It closes by recommending it as a gallery app worth trying.