GalleryMagic

Photo gallery services, websites and platforms are neither new nor scarce. Over the past decade and a half Flickr has risen and fallen, the mega coorporations Apple, Google and Meta (Facebook) all released various competing products and solutions for hosting and sharing photos. So why build an app in that space?

Customization

While Google and Apple specifically allow sharing of photo albums, they severely lack any form of visual customization. Sharing a Google Photo Album for your wedding is not a pretty sight, we think. GalleryMagic in comparison allows you to wildly change the look of an album based on a set of different themes. Even within one particular theme, you can tweak various elements to your liking!

Ownership

When you upload your photos to a third party service, you are giving up some amount of ownership of your photos. If Flickr is eventually sunsetted, you have to find a new service. For many people, this is an acceptable tradeoff. We like options though, and with GalleryMagic working fully offline on your Mac, you can host your gallery on pretty much any infrastructure. Or send it by mail, or put it on a USB stick. Hosting a website yourself requires technical knowledge and is not for everyone, absolutely. But if you have or want to gain that knowledge, many options open up for you.

If any of this resonates with you, give GalleryMagic a try!