Aves Gallery

Thibault Deckers

About this app

Aves can handle all sorts of images and videos, including your typical JPEGs and MP4s, but also more exotic things like multi-page TIFFs, SVGs, old AVIs and more!

It scans your media collection to identify motion photos, panoramas (aka photo spheres), 360° videos, as well as GeoTIFF files.

Navigation and search is an important part of Aves. The goal is for users to easily flow from albums to photos to tags to maps, etc.

Aves integrates with Android (from KitKat to Android 14, including Android TV) with features such as app shortcuts and global search handling. It also works as a media viewer and picker.

Ratings and reviews

Been looking for an app that makes tagging and rating photos quicker and easier. At first the options to tag and rate took a few clicks to get to. then I found that the quick select icons are customizable. now I can get to tagging and rating with one click on a single photo or when selecting multiple. The tagging menu shows recently used tags as well as popular tags so what I use most is readily available to select. I love that this is an open source project that I can request features to.

I have been using Aves gallery for about 6 months, but I noticed recently it had a bunch of images from 3+ years ago in an album for Aug 25. Also it changed the location to where I vacationed on the west coast in Aug, instead of the east coast where they were taken. Fortunately, it did not change the exif data, so when I installed a different app they were all right. Uninstalled.

Absolutely wonderful photo gallery app with just a couple of quirks. I can't for the life of me work out how it chooses the thumbnail image for each album/folder. Sometimes it's the image with the newest "modified" date, but sometimes it's something that I can't identify. In what may be a related issue, its image sorting is unpredictable: I choose to sort by file name and it does so... mostly... with some baffling out-of-order exceptions in every album/folder. Still my favorite gallery app.

What’s new

In v1.13.11:
- catalog AVIF images like never before
Full changelog available on GitHub