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

So far the best image and video gallery app out there all simplistic and customizable to your liking, being able to set a color to your folders/groups is a great touch as well! Notice a bug(?) where if you set an image as your wallpaper or lock screen wallpaper it'll boot you to the apps main menu when the operation is finished, kinda annoying if you're in the middle of a massive folder (cus I'm a meme hoarder)

Wanted to rate 5 stars but reduced to 4 stars after an issue with the app preventing some new pictures and videos from showing up in the gallery, forcing me to use the stock gallery app or My Files. It's an otherwise solid gallery app that plays videos and displays pictures great. However, the lack of a built-in simple photo editor is also another drawback but easily overlooked.

I'm really impressed with this app's user interface - it's so well-organized. What truly sets it apart for me is the ability to relocate photos without losing their capture date and time. This is incredibly helpful for keeping my photo library organized. It would be really wonderful if you guys could make a file management app-- I'm always losing the time date stamp when moving (audio) files. Thank you

What's new

In v1.11.8:
- explore your collection with the... explorer
- convert your motion photos to stills in bulk
Full changelog available on GitHub