This is Lavender Photos, a no non-sense, stylish, and performant gallery app for Android!

Features

• Smooth Browsing: Browse all your photos and videos smoothly, separated by date
• Flexible Albums: Add and remove albums as you wish, no arbitrary or forced selections
• Smart Search: Search for an image by its name, date or tag!
• Cloud Backup: Immich integration for safe and easy cloud media backup
• Media Tagging: Tagging system to properly organize media
• Trash Bin: Trash Bin that's sorted by recently trashed, so you don't lose track of what went where
• Favourites System: Full fledged favouriting system, compatible with Immich and other apps
• Album Groups: Create groups of albums for easy organization of your memories
• Offline Editing: Edit and personalize any photo or video, at any time, without an internet connection
• Secure Folder: Secure sensitive photos with bulletproof AES-256 encryption
• Quick Info: Find all the relevant information for a photo from one button click
• Easy Management: Copy and Move photos to albums easily, across storage mediums or even the cloud!
• Modern Interface: Clean UI, smooth UX and a playful interface
• Privacy First: No data is collected, no AI is trained, and no actions without permission
• Heavily Customizable: Change colors, behaviours, styles, and more
• Future: WAY more to come

Help us translate

With over 24 languages supported, Lavender Photos is accessible for all, and contributing a translation would greatly help with that! Our Weblate instance is a great place to start.

Screenshots

Main View	Albums	Cloud
Secure Folder	Favourites	Search
Privacy	Trash	Look & Feel

Verification

• Package name: com.kaii.photos
• Signing hash: B2:6E:8A:CD:20:D2:BD:B5:1D:EE:0D:F9:65:AA:40:BD:86:43:D3:F8:95:E8:25:A0:CD:DF:51:FE:27:5B:3E:C1

Install

• Grab a release version from the releases page
• Or a nightly version from the actions page
• Or use the IzzyOnDroid build with an F-Droid client

Building

• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/kaii-lb/LavenderPhotos.git && cd LavenderPhotos
• Run mkdir keys and copy your signing keys as releasekey.pk8 and releasekey.x509.pem into the newly created keys folder
• Run chmod +x ./build.sh
• Run ./build.sh tag where tag is one of release or debug
• Install the resulting outputs/photos_signed_${tag}_${abi}.apk (abi is one of arm64-v8a or armeabi-v7a)
• Note: build.sh accepts a --install arguement which immediately installs the APK after it finished compiling
• Note: for unsigned builds just use normal grade commands. ie: ./gradlew tag where tag is one of assembleRelease or assembleDebug
  • Resulting unsigned APK will be in ./app/build/outputs/apk/{debug/release}