BestPhotos - Library Manager

The main attraction for me is that Best can be used on an iPad in horizontal orientation. Another is to display recents. I hate it when Apple Photos opens and several thousand shots are displayed when all I want to see are those taken in the past week or month. Edited a week later: the more I use this app, the more I like it. Also, Eric the dev responded quickly with helpful comments when I emailed a couple of questions.

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I have the free version, and I agree with commenter regarding customers should have access to paid version for a time limit to see if it will do what it’s supposed to do and what the customer needs. But still I was thinking about purchasing the updated version until I read some of the reviews. The people who made complaints or wishes were never replied to by customer service or the owner or developer. I don’t understand. This shows me that the company doesn’t really care about their customers. How could you not reply with help or explanation or anything. I’ve read horror stories on other apps by commenters that have lost photos and videos after problems with crashes or whatever. If a company doesn’t care enough to reply to customers problems then I don’t think they really care about my very important photos and videos and some day after spending so much time organizing them they just might be gone. I love what this app says it does but as they say, actions speaks louder than words.

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The last update fixed the stability issues I started encountering, so I’m happy to report the app is stable and functional again! With that said, there are still a few missing features keeping this app from being 5 stars. 1. I love the feature that lets you add/fix location info on photos, but it’s a huge bummer that you can’t do the same with Live Photos or videos. I have to jump to another app to do that. I’d love to just stay in BestPhotos. 2. Cannot edit date/time of photos. I would love to see the ability to edit date/time data of photos just like you can with location data. That would allow me to delete two other apps I currently use just for that feature alone. 3. Custom smart folders would be amazing. Similar to how there are a few built-in smart folders (ex. Missing location, not in albums) I would love to be able to set up my own smart folders with my own parameters. With those features added, BestPhotos would be one of the most essential photography apps on iOS. (P.S. I’d even pay more to have those features.)

Here’s two important refinements that would really make it useful: 1. iCloud photos are slow. This makes tabbing through photos really slow, and I lose patience. I know that this isn’t your fault. Could you allow the user to select a range of photos to compare, show a progress bar to get them all, then I could come back and quickly find the ones that I want. 2. iCloud movies are really slow. Add a setting option to just ignore them! I found that sometimes I was waiting a long time, and then I realized that I was waiting to download a movie. There’s no easy way to see that until it’s fully downloaded. Just hide them.

Whenever I use split screen, I always get lost and give up. For some reason, it scrolls up instead of down, and the pic on the left never has a thumbnail that shows. It’s impossible to tell WHICH photos I’m comparing, and wherever I start from, it ends up comparing the wrong photos because when I hit the trash can or the heart, it loads the next photo in the wrong direction. The photo prior to the current one disappears from the fil strip altogether! Seriously, it’s driving me nuts. The rest of the app is good though.