Google Photos alternatives

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R3] Google Photos 3/5 · US Photos won’t delete: I have been a longtime Google Photos user. We’re talking years!!! In the past 6 months I have noticed when I press delete on photos, it doesn’t actually delete. I will have to delete the same photo 3x sometimes Prior to it actually deleting and stop taking up my storage quota. Also, now that it’s not free, there’s little difference between paying here and paying for extra iClo
2. [R4] Google Photos 1/5 · US shady practice: This app keeps tricking me into enabling photo backup, forcing me to buy more space without understanding how I ran out in the first place. I just had to spend an hour undoing it manually because I’m worried the bulk undo option will erase photos I manually added to shared albums. You have lost my trust and I will be migrating to a different app.
3. [R37] Google Photos 1/5 · US Took up all my Google storage, and I cannot unlink it from my Google account: I don’t even remember creating a Google Photos account and linking it to my iPhone camera roll, but somehow it has access to every single photo and video, and is taking up all my Google storage. I never use this app for anything, but there is no way to unlink it to free up more storage for my Google account (Gmail, drive
4. [R49] Google Photos 1/5 · US Stolen photos - unable to delete: I downloaded Google Photos to upload photos to a friend’s wedding album. I did not turn on backups from my device and it stole every photo from my iPhone library and had the GALL to request money for “too much storage” without giving me the option to delete all the photos. It would take me hours to do this manually, and thus cannot access my Google budget without
5. [R9] Google Photos 3/5 · US Bring back MONTHLY VIEW!!: May 1, 2026: I WANT OFF THIS ISLAND!! These updates are seriously getting worse with EVERY update since changing and removing the monthly layout! July 4th: The updates are steady getting worse! Google Photos literally stopped working for me on July 3rd. It started freezing and not opening all the way. Multiple phone reboots did nothing. I hesitated but gave in and upda
6. [R10] Google Photos 1/5 · US Never uploads correctly: I imagine this product works well on Android, but on iOS it has been a complete mess for sometime. Images will not upload even when you leave your phone open, you cannot remove images from albums, images disappear from albums, and the list goes on. Fire these PMs and start over from scratch.
7. [R12] Google Photos 3/5 · US Performance is horrible: I used to love this app and am married to it because all my photos from over the years are in it. However, the last year or two the performance has continued to deteriorate. The app is so impossibly slow and sometimes doesn’t load at all. Hoping to amend this review if updates are finally made, but I’m tired of waiting and hoping.
8. [R25] Google Photos 1/5 · US Slow, won’t upload or download videos: It always fails to download or upload videos or live pictures. Worked so well then suddenly about a week ago the app is basically useless. Trying to move my archives over and now I’m regretting wasting so much time.
9. [R1] Google Photos 1/5 · US Nosy and not worth it: Wanted to upload my photos to a shared album on this app from a work team bonding event. It was a really fun day and I wanted to contribute. If I could select certain photos from my library I would’ve done just that and have a neutral to positive experience on this app. But no, I spent many minutes of my life poking around the app, not knowing why the selected photos I chose
10. [R13] Google Photos 1/5 · US Terrible UX: Which ever PM/Designer decided this should be a UX and it should be this hard to manually upload a photo to google photos should find a new career. This app is borderline unusable if you don’t want to use automatic backup… I want to manually upload a photo from my iphone, no, I don’t want to scroll through my entire google 10k+ google photo collection most of which are not on my iphon
11. [R19] Google Photos 1/5 · US Won’t work unless you give Google access to all your photos: Do you want to add a few photos from vacation to a friend’s share Google photo album? Well, forget it, this app will not let you access and share a few photos, it wants every single photo on your phone. The app claims to allow “limited access” but you can punch that button all day, it won’t work. Then, once you allow “full access,” and h
12. [R45] Google Photos 1/5 · US Steal your privacy: After update, you cant choose some photos to publish anymore. Only "give me all your photos" or "nothing" options.
13. [R15] Google Photos 3/5 · US photo grid update: Myself and so many other users of google photos who I know, HATE, the new main photo grid. There is no need to have Recent moments, cinematics (which i turned off but still get), videos, and people and pets show up. there is literally a separate tab for that i can go to i don’t need it getting in the way of trying to find what i’m actually looking for in my photos. it’s large an
14. [R27] Google Photos 3/5 · GB Photos: Please allow us to correct people who are tagged wrong. I don’t want to remove that person, I just want the right people tagged with their own name.
15. [R28] Google Photos 1/5 · US Update: Since the last update, photos are not showing by day and date. Need to click on them to see date. Please bring that feature back
16. [R7] Google Photos 1/5 · US 🚨 🚨 BLOATED app size approaching HALF a GIGABYTE, spams notifications ⛔️: Google Photos was 420.5 MBs and growing to… 423.3 MBs… And like all Google apps, the Photos app is well on its way to AN ENTIRE GIGABYTE (see Gmail). 🚨 This is deplorable and comically out of touch while phone prices are increasing and consumers are crunched for storage, and by the way: bandwidth caps and overage costs exis
17. [R21] Google Photos 3/5 · GB It’s ok but could be much better: My one major problem with the Google photos app is how clumsy it looks. Give us some options about how to set up the look of our albums. The one option of text for naming albums is very poor and it’s such a terrible choice of font. Come on Google - huge bubble font? Who thought this was ok? Please give us something a little more elegant - give us some options. I
18. [R43] Google Photos 2/5 · US Search is not working: When searching for something it’s not bringing up photos that relate to what I’m searching for. It only shows my current photos I’ve taken from today and the prior days.
19. [R55] Google Drive 5/5 · US Good for vr content: It’s really good if you wanna post VR content all you gotta do is just have the app on VR and on your mobile or whatever device that you do it you just explode it on your the Google Drive and then on your mobile you can check it and then download it to your Photos and edit it and post it
20. [R58] Google Drive 5/5 · US Google Drive review A+: Always user friendly and consistent
21. [R60] Google Drive 5/5 · US GENIAL: Ni siquiera sabía cómo trabajar acá , la misma app te guía como debes hacerlo , está impresionante.
22. [R62] Google Drive 5/5 · US So amazing.: Google Drive really helps me with my daily life. 10 out of 10
23. [R66] Google 5/5 · US I love it: It can predict. My classes gives me sections on things I love this app!
24. [R70] Google 5/5 · US 18 years.: i have been using this app for 18... 18 YEARS.
25. [R74] Google 5/5 · US Deon Davon Podcast: Outstanding google help protect all accounts they have great services in every platform
26. [R80] Dropbox 5/5 · US Thank you!: I lost access to my old email address and Dropbox helped me restore my account, had to answer questions and I’m so appreciative of their support in the process. Thank you!
27. [R83] Dropbox 5/5 · US After all these years: Awesome and free. Forgot I had it TBH. Found 13 year old pix from an old trip to Europe.
28. [R89] Dropbox 5/5 · US Wonderful tool!: I love using Dropbox to give me access to favorite files on multiple devices. It is easy to use and simplifies my life!
29. [R91] Dropbox 5/5 · US this is good: keeps my important photos
30. [R94] Photoshop Express Photo Editor 4/5 · US Highly Intuitive: That’s my review. Lots of buttons too.
31. [R100] Photoshop Express Photo Editor 5/5 · US Best App Ever!: I love this app it does everything I need. I highly recommend!!!!
32. [R102] Photoshop Express Photo Editor 2/5 · US Used to be so much better.: It used to be just like photoshop where you could make any change you wanted. Now, everything is generative AI and it’s hard to do anything manually and actually make it your own work. Subscribed and immediately unsubscribed. It’s time to stop with the AI and let people make their own stuff again.
33. [R106] Photoshop Express Photo Editor 5/5 · US Best app: Photoshop is a best app offering easy editing for both Computer end phones.I really love this app and use it most time.But mostly occasionally.One thing I love is even with free editing version you have various tools to use and can edit as a pro.Meaning the app responds positively to customs.I personally use both computers and phone;you are the best.
34. [R108] Amazon Photos 4/5 · US Amazon photos: Love this app to save photos and videos and it’s cheap. I just don’t like how hard it is to find hidden photos option.
35. [R110] Amazon Photos 5/5 · US Highly Recommended: Excellent. Very happy with Amazon Photos!!!!
36. [R111] Amazon Photos 5/5 · US Great!: So nice to not worry about losing photos
37. [R113] Amazon Photos 5/5 · US Great: I love using this to backup all my photos for the main purpose of having cute screensavers on our fire TV’s. I only save the photos of family so there isn’t random junk on the tv
38. [R47] Google Photos 1/5 · US Typical predatory behavior from google: You cant just select a subset of photos to share. This app will only work if you share everything (full access) from your phone. I’m already migrating to a personal photo server than use these horrible data pirates