Photon Library App Reviews

No Apple, I don’t need a cluttered UI to access the most recent photos I’ve taken. I don’t need constant zooming in/out, and scrolling down to reveal all sorts of ways to view my photos library. Sad to see this mess got released by Apple. Happy to see privacy focused, small (3mb) apps like Photon were able to fill the gap.

A couple suggestions: (1) let me reorder albums (2) separate device created albums from Synced albums (3) setting for 3,4,5 across photo grid

Nothing “wrong” with the Apple Photos app, but Photon Library pares things down for quick access, as when pulling up a photo to show someone during a conversation. “Just Press Record” takes a similar approach for voice notes, and is my go-to app for that reason (I use other apps when more flexibility is needed). I anticipate using Proton Library the same way. Hopefully, the developer won’t be inclined to add bells and whistles, but just make improvements and fixes when needed. If they want to

Looks good and simple, but no search function! Without a way to search for tagged photos this is not very useful to me. In any case, it does not pick up the subject tags that I added with the now useless Apple iOS 18 photos app. If I had known, I wouldn’t have bought it.

This does not recreate the old Photos app for iPhone. I can’t see any difference. Apple really failed with the new, updated Photos app - and this doesn’t fix it. Don’t spend your money on this one.