Utiful: Move & Organize Photos

Utiful

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About this app

Utiful is the photo filing system that Google forgot to build in Android.

Tired of Google Photos mixing everything together?

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

I really want to like this, but it's really not for power users. #1 thing I want - keep my photos safe / backed up. #2 Quickly find my photos because my organizer app CREATES FOR ME folders, names then by date, and moves all pics taken on that date, inside. Well - upon opening, app warns they place my pics in a place normal Android backup can't work. Ok. Thx for warning; but why do that? 2nd, I have 16,528 pics / vids on my S22+. Utiful wants me to create all the folders myself. Heck no!

A recent update had increased performance issues pertaining to the app to a point that it was near-unusable. Followup patches have helped things to a point that the app performs better than I can recall it ever performing There are some issues in this regard still however, particularly with regards to particularly hefty folders. Still, its back to serving its purpose as a sort of secondary "pocket" gallery with a great deal of organization utility

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

+ GREAT NEWS! You can now save up to 99% storage space for new photos with the new Storage Saver Mode of the Fast Camera! Activate it from the gear symbol in the Fast Camera and adjust it as you need it.