Utiful: Move & Organize Photos

Utiful Software GmbH

In-app purchases

About this app

Utiful is the photo filing system Google forgot to build. As featured in The Wall Street Journal.

Are you frustrated that Google Photos mixes everything—and won't let you create real order?

The Google Photos app won’t let you truly organize your pictures. You create an album, add photos—and they still stay in the camera roll. You delete them from the camera roll, and they disappear from the album too.

That’s why we built Utiful.

Unlike Google Photos and other gallery apps, Utiful lets you:
• Move photos out of your camera roll and away from the Android Gallery—finally!
• Sort your photos into separate categories—work, hobbies, personal, and more.
• Keep utility photos like documents, receipts, and IDs out of your main gallery.
• Keep your main gallery clean and tidy.

How Utiful Works:
• Use Utiful to move photos out of your camera roll and save them to Utiful folders.
• The photos are removed from the camera roll but kept in your Utiful folders.

Utiful’s further unique features include:
• Save photos to Utiful folders straight from the Photos app and from the Gallery app.
• Take photos with the folder camera that save directly to the folder.
• Manually rearrange photos in a folder—just the way you like.
• Customize the icons of your photo folders with emoji symbols and colors.
• Keep your Utiful folders on internal storage or SD card.
• Protect your Utiful folders with a passcode lock or fingerprint.
• Import/export photo folders from/to your computer.

Who Uses Utiful:
• Professionals & freelancers keeping work photos separate from personal ones
• Contractors & service providers managing before/after project pictures
• Doctors & lawyers organizing reference photos, evidence, and case documentation
• Hobbyists & creatives storing inspiration, artwork, and craft ideas
• Everyday users organizing screenshots, receipts, IDs, and notes by category as well as reference pictures such as haircuts, clothes, fitness tracking, songs identified with Shazam etc.

Quick Start Guide:
1. Open Utiful, tap "Add Photos", select photos from the camera roll and tap "Move".
2. Or, while in the Photos app or in the Gallery app, select photos, tap Share and choose Utiful.

• No Internet required: You can keep organizing your photos offline without any problems.
• No lock-in: Everything you move to your Utiful folders remains on your device even if you delete the app.
• No ads: Enjoy undistracted productivity when organizing your photos.

All photo, video, GIF, and RAW formats are supported. Original image quality & metadata are preserved.
The full feature list and User’s Manual are available anytime in the app’s settings.

Download Utiful today and take control of your photo library!

Terms of Use: utifulapp.com/terms.html
Privacy Policy: utifulapp.com/privacy.html

Ratings and reviews

My regular photo albums were getting cluttered bc a lot of them were for my job, so i like that this gives my work albums their own place. But that's basically all it is without paying. Price is reasonable but should be a one time payment. The photos are a bit too trapped in the app, once I move a photo to Utiful then no other app can find it... you have to go into Utiful and share the photo with that app.

This app is simple and exactly what I needed to organize my photos. Google photos just can't handle thousands of pictures. It becomes a scrambled mess. With Utiful you can separate into different folders. It can be done either from inside the app or outside of it. It's the perfect solution and alternative to Google. It doesn't have a bunch of features. Just a simple organizer that's fast and easy to do. Love it so far!

This app is exactly what I needed and the only one I found that allows me to organize my photos in colored coded folders. During setup, I chose to put the folder in Google Drive instead of on my phone for backup and recovery. I haven’t had any issues. I can easily find my photos instead of forever scrolling to find one! I would love a larger color selection for the folders in the future, but I'm so grateful this app exists. Huge thanks to the app developers!

What’s new

+ Improved data safety with automatic data restore after reinstall.
+ Storage Saver Mode now supports videos, with optional sound recording.
+ Improved photo quality in Storage Saver Mode, with up to 99% storage saving.
+ Camera sounds can now be enabled from camera settings.