ReFra Gallery

Ionut Iacob

About this app

ReFra — Your photos, your way.

A modern, open-source gallery app designed from the ground up with Material You and Jetpack Compose. Fast, beautiful, and packed with features — without ads, trackers, or cloud dependencies.

Browse and Organize

Timeline view with smart grouping by date
Album management with pinning, hiding, and custom thumbnails
Favorites and trash with full MediaStore integration
Browse photos by location

Smart Search

Fast fuzzy search across your entire library
Search history for quick access

AI-Powered Classification

On-device image classification — your data never leaves your phone
Create and manage custom categories
Automatically organize photos into meaningful groups

Private Vault

Encrypt sensitive photos and videos with biometric authentication
Portable vault import and export
Military-grade encryption keeps your private moments safe

Built-in Photo Editor

Crop, rotate, and adjust your photos without leaving the app
No need for a separate editing app

Video Playback

Smooth video playback with full format support
DASH and HLS streaming support

Beautiful by Design

Material You dynamic theming — matches your wallpaper and system colors
Smooth animations and shared element transitions
Blur effects and a polished, modern interface

Metadata and Details

View and edit EXIF data
Detailed media information at your fingertips

Open Source and Privacy First

100% open source — inspect, modify, and contribute
No ads, no trackers, no data collection
Everything runs on your device

Ratings and reviews

I want this to be my gallery app of choice, but it needs a lot of bug fixes. Here are a couple of frequently recurring issues I ran into: 1.) Completely deletes photos when I rename them in-app 2.) Swiping through photos often results in it forcing you into a loop of those same photos, regardless of what's behind or in front of it in the gallery 3.) Video player button literally doesn't work; I have to scrub a vid's timeline just to get them to play

App itself is very good and does what it's supposed to do. Worth paying for it, especially since there is no data shared or collected. Recently the app got renamed and the icon has changed all of a sudden which was quite confusing. Unfortunately there was no communication or change log Infos which should be standard when it comes to aggressive changes like that.

Easily the best Gallery App out there, it's modern, simple yet powerful. it has everything you need. The IA classification doesn't quite work for me so I don't use it but it's a great addition.