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The 6 Best Android Gallery Apps Better Than Google Photos

2018 · English · Article

In its roundup of Android gallery apps it considers better than Google Photos, MakeUseOf ranks Piktures second. The writer recalls that it had previously appeared on the site's list of best Android apps. They present it as a home for the strong features of QuickPic, which the site no longer recommends. The writer highlights a distinctive design in which album cover photos move with a parallax effect. The article explains that users can filter by photos, videos, GIFs or location. It also describes a calendar view that shows a month of thumbnails along with how many shots were taken each day. Two extras are singled out: a built-in QR code scanner, useful when the camera app lacks one, and an OCR tool that turns text in a photo into editable text from the image's overflow menu. Piktures is listed as free, with in-app purchases.