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

Edited: I recently switched from Samsung Gallery to Aves because of the most recent update which added AI features and changed the UI. I'm really enjoying it so far. It has most of the features I like about Samsung Gallery, it's more customizable and it has some other neat stuff. The only thing that's keeping it from being 5 stars is that it's slow for me especially when I open the app after adding new images. I'm guessing a lot of the issue is that I have too many images. I have 117,807 images.

I've been using Aves ever since the free gallery app that came pre-installed on one of my older phones (Samsung Galaxy Note 8) got decommissioned, and I have been very pleased with this one's relative simplicity, customization options, and lack of ads! And now that I've switched to a Google Pixel, I especially appreciate that it doesn't try to push images it "thinks" I should share or create a "collage" with or other such nonsense that Google Photos keeps foisting on me. Aves is truly a keeper!

Awesome gallery app. There's plenty of customization options, but not to the point where it's overwhelming. I love that I can change the 'home' view to show only a specific filetype, hiding all of the RAW images. The literal only thing I can think to add is the ability to search a location on the map, and also to zoom in on the user's current location. As-is, you have to pinch to zoom from the entire globe, which can be time consuming. Especially annoying if you have images from a LOT of places

What’s new

In v1.14.8, since v1.13.12:
- find and play with your slow motion videos
- keep your media selection through multiple edits
- peek transitions with predictive back gesture
- bottom nav bar on the Explorer page
- export media selection as GPX track
- export stats
- search with regex
- enjoy the app in Lao and Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Full changelog available on GitHub