Curator

Sort your phone's gallery like the storeroom of a museum

Thousands of photos wait in crates, one crate per month. Open one at a time: twenty-odd cards, a couple of minutes. One gesture per thing: write it off, keep it, put it into an album, mark it as one of the best. Nothing is deleted until you sign the act of write-off, and the space you free builds the museum, wing by wing. Free, no ads, no internet.

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Download the APK · Android 11+

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A crate at a time

• Crates by month. The gallery arrives as crates of arrivals, one per month, each with how much is still undescribed. Special collections cut across the months: screenshots, videos (heaviest first), pictures from chats, everything over 20 MB.
• The expert goes first. Before you start, blurred shots, pocket shots in the dark, screenshots and exact duplicates are put aside on the phone itself (Laplacian sharpness, brightness, a difference hash). You confirm with one button, or tap any of them to save it.
• Series. Five near-identical shots taken within a minute come as one card: pick the original, the copies go into the act.
• One gesture. ← write off · → keep · ↓ into an album · ↑ later · hold to mark it as one of the best. The same as buttons, and undo takes back the last card.
• An inventory card for every thing: its number (КП-2021/03-0147), date and time, folder and size. A tap shows the whole photo; a video plays in the phone's player.

Nothing is lost by accident

• The act of write-off. Everything written off waits in the act. Look at any thing again or keep it after all. When you sign, Android asks once for the whole act (MediaStore.createDeleteRequest).
• No internet permission. Photos never leave the phone; the expert looks at small thumbnails right here.

The museum grows

• Wings for freed space. The building stands in scaffolding: the wing opens at 250 MB, the gallery at 1 GB, the rotunda at 2.5 GB, the observatory at 5 GB, the sculpture garden at 10 GB. Each gets its ribbon.
• Ranks for described things, from attendant to museum director.
• Halls are your albums. A hall can become a real one: its photos move to Pictures/<hall> and every gallery app shows it as an album.
• The exhibition of the week: this week's best shots on a poster under its own title, to rename and send.
• Out of the stores: a thing taken on this very day in an earlier year.
• The chronicle of everything the museum has lived through.
• A morning note while crates are waiting, if you want one.

Build

./gradlew assembleDebug                      # app.curator.dev
./gradlew assembleDebug -Pdemo               # app.curator.demo: a made-up gallery drawn in code
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest                  # the expert's logic
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest -Prender --tests '*RenderScreens*' && python tools/shots.py   # screenshots
python tools/res.py                          # strings, EN and RU, from one table

Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room, DataStore, WorkManager. Fonts: Cormorant Garamond, PT Serif, PT Sans Narrow (SIL OFL).

Part of StillCraft. MIT licence.

Photos in the training crate are from Unsplash: Steven Lewis, Roberto Nickson, Matthew Wiebe, Jeff Sheldon, Alexey Topolyanskiy, E+N Photographies.

Photos in the demo gallery and the screenshots are from Unsplash too, via Lorem Picsum; the authors are listed in CREDITS.txt. They go only into demo builds, never into the release APK.