MyPics - A Powerful PhotoAlbum

I am giving this app 4 stars because it is truly fantastic and a huge step up from the photos app which leaves a lot to be desired! I got this app yesterday and paid for the premium features of unlimited space and size of photo. I installed this on my phone and ipad and within a few hours had my pics sorted into albums on both devices, checked to make sure my dropbox had uploaded all and then deleted those pics off my photos app and icloud. Now I will use that app for storing unimportant pics or pics before they have been edited and ready to store in a more organized manner. This app is super simple to use and perfect in every way but one. It is also easy to airdrop or share your pictures and a quick press of the finger to put a pic back in the photos app if needed! Please please please add a way to sync your albums and content between any device the app and dropbox are installed on! It would be MUCH better if I don’t need to do everything twice to keep my album and picture view identical on my phone and ipad. I would be willing to pay an additional fee for this feature on top of what I already paid!!! Please!!! And if you can add touch and face id rather than pincode that would be the icing on the cake along with the option to have some hidden albums too!!!

It took a little time to figure out how to do things in this app because of a somewhat non-standard UI, but I not only found all the usual digital album functions, but when I began wondering if it could do this or that, things that I have long wanted to be able to do in a digital album, in every case the answer was (after some stubborn searching) YES!! All the restrictions I have suffered with in “Photos” are now gone and I am undergoing a revelation in filing and finding and viewing all 5,000+ of my stored photos, short videos, drawings, paintings, and anything else visual. In all honesty, there is not one thing I’ve tried to do with it that it has not done very, very well. The designers seem to have thought of every need, big and small, and they must be people who have had the same issues that we have had, because they KNOW, and they have made them available, easy and very reliable: this app is as solid as a tank. I see user reviews here that regret that MyPics doesn’t have one or another important function. So I’ve tried those things and I hasten to assure those users that yes, you CAN do that! It just takes some searching, and sometimes looking for stuff in a different place, or way, from what most of us are used to. For a utility like this masterpiece the price is ridiculous. Try it and you won’t be disappointed. But give yourself time to learn it.

Much better than the Photo app that comes with my iPad. Editing and organization are superior. We work with a LOT of pics in our business and this has been a must for us. While you can email pics directly out of the app, we can not get the Apple mail app with Gmail or Spark to pull pics from it. As far as I can tell, my email aps will only draw directly from the gallery, not from MyPics. Also, can not get the camera app to send pics directly to it. So, we have to transfer pics back and forth frequently which is awkward. Also, can't save pics from incoming email directly to it. Of course it is free so can't complain too much. I like it FAR better than Apple's Photo app for editing and for organization. If they would make it more compatible with the other apps, especially, email apps, I'd happily pay a fair price for it. Try it. You'll probably like it.

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When I downloaded this app I was super excited to try it out. Aside from the raving reviews, this app was easy to learn, a genius at organizing and offered an automatic backup to Dropbox to assure your pictures were never lost (I tested this feature before proceeding with my pictures). I gladly paid the 4.99 to receive unlimited storage counting myself unbelievably lucky to have discovered this life changing app (I’m a complete mess with no organizational skills and almost 50,000 photos on my phone). After downloading and deleting at least 5,000 photos, I closed out of the app. HUGE mistake. When I opened it the next day, all my photos were gone... no worries though bc... you know... Dropbox. Except when I checked Dropbox there was only ONE photo saved — if you guessed my test photo, yes u guessed right.. the only photo to actually be backed up... out of 5,001 pictures. I blame myself for deleting them so confidently in the first place, so I’m not even angry about that really. What I am angry about though, like joe pesci angry, is that there is no humanly possible way to contact them. They are an Asian company, with several apps made and marketed for English speaking countries, yet there’s no way to contact them. How can a business that accepts your money not offer any channel of communication? If your company ever decides to let its users connect with them, please let your past customers know. Unacceptable.

I have a iPad Pro 10,iPad Pro 12, and 3 regular iPads. Also 2 iPhones. When I take a picture Apple insists on storing the photo on iCloud and all my devices or it gives me endless grief. I hope Apple is doing this as a convenience and not a moneymaker ( but if they were you would be able to turn it off easier or there would be more granularity in the settings). This is a great app that lets me break that link and store the photos on the device I want it on. I use a thumb drive to back my photos on. Also it lets me easily convert all those Live Photo’s (Apple says you can turn that off but every update turns it back on along with passing traffic, the wind...) to regular images. The reason I gave it 4 stars is because it doesn’t give you the option to delete the photos after you have imported them like many other apps do. Add that feature and I will be thrilled. Thank You for a very good app. UPDATE: the deletion option, among other improvements, was added. I’m a happy camper and giving 5 stars.