Fossify Gallery

★★★★☆

A basic on-device gallery app that lets you view, browse, organize and delete your photos entirely on your own phone, and open them in other apps for sharing. No tracking, no ads. Works as a file picker too, when you’re already in another app and want to load a photo. Mostly replaces the offline use cases for Google Photos.

There’s a simple editor for cropping, rotating, markup and a few pre-defined filters. (IIRC the Simple Gallery app it was forked from had a few more adjustments it could do, but the Fossify project had some concerns about the license.)

If you do want to sync your photos with a cloud service, you can use another app for syncing while still using this one locally. I’m uploading to Nextcloud for now, and I still want to try Immich when I can set aside some time to set up an Immich server.

Bugs

Gallery used to have a bug where it would lose EXIF data when editing, but that’s been fixed, so now I can use it to crop photos for iNaturalist without sending them to a desktop first. (You’d think this would be a low bar, and yet…)

There’s a similar bug where it discards location when used as a file picker, which has tripped me up a few times, though sharing from the gallery app keeps the metadata intact.