Put the gallery back in order

Yves Cuillerdier

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About this app

When copying files, Android does not keep the original creation date. This generally doesn't matter, except for photos and videos as it completely disrupts the gallery.

Fortunately, it is generally possible to recover the creation date and thus restore the gallery display order. This is what this app does automatically.

The free version allows you to process 50 images or videos to allow you to verify that this application meets your needs. The files can be selected individually or by folder if you do not want to correct your entire gallery.

The application correctly takes into account the new PXL file format introduced by Google on its Pixel devices with Android 11.

All versions of Android do not have the same possibilities or limitations (See notes below), but thanks to an external library, it is possible to correct all types of media.

For a small fee, you can purchase the full version which allows you to fix an unlimited number of files.

Important notes:

Before Android 5 (Lollipop)
The application can process all the kinds of images and videos. It corrects the MediaStore database so that images and videos are correctly displayed in the gallery. However, the application does not touch the files, and in particular does not change their date and does not modify the EXIF ​​data.

Android 5 (Lollipop) to Android 7 (Nougat)
The application can repair the gallery for all types of images and videos.
Here it is possible to save the date in EXIF data for certain file formats. Indeed, if Android generally knows how to read this data, on the other hand, it can only write it for JPG, PNG and WebP files. This option must be activated in the menu as this increases the processing time.
Unfortunately, for these versions of Android, it is still not possible to change the date of the files.

Android 8 (Oreo) and 9 (Pie)
The modification of the date of the files finally works. It is possible for these versions to modify the date of the files! This option must be activated in the menu.

Android 10
The MediaStore has become read-only. It is therefore no longer possible to update it directly.
The only possibility is to write the EXIF data to the files. Unfortunately, for Android, only JPG, PNG, DNG and WebP files support writing EXIF attributes. The bad news is that the application could no longer process certain videos. To overcome this limitation, the application includes Phil Harvey's famous ExifTool library, which allows you to correct all files, including videos.

Privacy
This application is certified without a tracker and does not collect any data.

Ratings and reviews

THANK YOU!!!! This is exactly what I needed. I traded in my iPhone 6s for a Galaxy S10, but the transfer somehow jumbled up the pictures in my gallery. I spent hours looking for a solution until I found this app. It effectively recognized the 3,000 pics that had incorrect dates and the handful of pics with correct dates. I tried the first 50 pics for free, decided $3.49 was worth it after those photos were fixed with great success, and finally fixed the 3000 images that were causing me trouble.

Oh, thank god for this app!! When I moved all my photos to an SD card, about half of them lost the date, throwing my gallery into disarray. I've been looking everywhere for an app that can set the date from the image filename, to no avail. Before this app, the best I could find was something that let me set dates manually (not fun for 1000s of images). This does exactly what I need, works like magic! It misses a few photos but those I can just fix manually with another app. Thank you!!

It works somewhat. I paid the $4 but I still have over 7000 pics/videos that are unverifiable, half of the ones it did have suggestions for all recommended changing the date to 2002. However the small percentage of files it correctly changed the date for worked great. Needs a lot of work and is a waste of $4. Update: Now the app refuses to change anything that's selected. It says all my pics are from 1969 and will not change any dates when I press "Restore Media Date".

What's new

Bug fixing