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QuickPic - Pictures Quick and Simple
Tested version: 0.9.0
Latest version: 2.9.4
Requires Android: from 2.0
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Summary
Here at AndroidPIT we’ve tested quite a few picture viewers and browsers already. Many of them are synched up with Facebook and Flickt, while others offer only a limited range of features. But you don’t always need fancy features. Sometimes all you need is a simple picture viewing app that displays all your photos quickly and efficiently. QuickPic is exactly that kind of simple yet extremely useful app. Take a closer look today’s test.
Features & Use
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QuickPic may include a lot of features, but the app’s main aim is to give you quick access to all of your photos. For that purpose the app can hide all your subfolders including cover photos and such. Unlike your regular Android 3D photo gallery, QuickPick makes sure to keep unnecessary folders out of sight.
As far as zooming is concerned, you can do so by double-clicking or using “pinch-to-zoom” with a supported device. Within each folder you can slide between photos using your finger. Here I really enjoyed that fact that you can slide to the next picture even when the picture is zoomed-in. This is a great improvement on most regular photo gallery apps that make you zoom out of a picture before you can move on to the next one.
QuickPic isn’t just a trimmed down version of your regular gallery app, however, It can also edit and rotate pictures, display slideshows, sort by name or date, share, show picture details, set them as your background as well as display the location where the picture was taken.
Another major QuickPic feature is the ability to select multiple pictures in order to share, copy or move them. It may seem simple enough, but it’s definitely worth mentioning.
Bottom Line:
For those of you interested in app that includes Facebook/Flickr import as well as a simple and efficient picture viewer, QuickPic is undoubtedly the way to go.
Screen & Controls
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Generally speaking, QuickPic is controlled in a similar fashion to the way your regular photo gallery app works. At start-up, QuickPic displays all your folders containing pictures in a thumbnail overview. This includes the cover art from your music collection. You can hide unwanted folders by long-pressing them and selecting Hide folder.
Unfortunately, it’s a bit tricky to reverse your hidden folders to make them visible again. In order to display all hidden items select Show hidden items upon pressing the menu button.
You can also select Exclude in order to hide a folder including all of its subfolders. Additional options include making a slide show or renaming your pictures.
Once you’ve opened a picture from a folder, you can select the following options after pressing the menu button:
Slide show
Details
Rotate
Share
Crop
Mehr
Set wallpaper
Delete
Show in map
The following options are available when you press the menu button inside a folder:
- Slide show
- Sort
- Hide folder
- Multiselect
The Sort option allows you to display your photos in the following ways:
Sort by date (starting from earliest)
Sort by date DESC (starting from oldest)
Sort by name ASC (from the beginning of the alphabet)
Sort by name DESC (from the end of the alphabet)
If you’ve selected multiple pictures, you can then choose from the following options:
When moving or copying pictures, you can choose the destination folder or create a new one.
Bottom Line:
In terms of controls, there’s almost nothing to complain about. Everything from sorting and organizing your pictures to creating new folders is painless and easy to accomplish.
Speed & Stability
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Speed is one of QuickPic’s strong points. The app managed to preview all 855 pictures from my camera folder in a flash. No more waiting for the pictures to load.
Price/Performance Ratio
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QuickPic is available for free from the Android Market.
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Market Comments
The Geekman, Oct 2, 2012
Infinitely better than Android's stock gallery app Ever since the update from Honeycomb to Ice Cream Sandwich and now to Jelly Bean, Android's stock gallery app has been continually problematic: creating duplicate and triplicate thumbnails and folders on the SD Card, as well as "assigning" thumbnails from the contents of one folder to another (e.g. my photos of an event in Charlotte have as thumbnails pictures of my cat). And no matter how many times one clears the "Media Storage Cache" and allows Android to "rebuild" the thumbnail database after rebooting, Android's gallery app still gets things wrong . . . and it gets worse as one occasionally powers down their device and reboots in the normal course of daily use. QuickPic got it right the first time and, even after multiple reboots, continues to get it right. I am disappointed that Google hasn't addressed this issue with a much better stock gallery app to handle SD Card contents, as I have seen hundreds, if not thousands, of complaints about this over the last year of so on the web each and every time I try to find a better solution to fixing this rather annoying problem. I randomly found out about QuickPic in a forum and will never go back to the stock gallery app.
Sunny, Oct 2, 2012
Awesome it is really what you require when you have loads of photos. Best thing abt this app is that it doesnt load..
Anonymous, Oct 2, 2012
Needs features Needs JPEG support and scrolling only up and down like iphone for tall pictures
Mel, Oct 1, 2012
This is the best gallery. Period. I love this app. It's fast, lean and a pleasure to use.
Robert, Oct 1, 2012
No wallpaper? Unable to set wallpaper, just takes you to cropping each time and save resized picture. Makes no sense to not allow setting wallpaper. Gallery was fast and intuitive but not being able to set wallpaper is a deal breaker for me.
nigelcoldwell.co.uk, Oct 1, 2012
Excellent Much better than the awful jelly bean stock app. Well done.
Volt, Oct 1, 2012
Excellent Hope to see a pro version definitely a win and will buy. Free is even better though. Hahaha
kotkis, Oct 1, 2012
Great app but has some bugs QuickPic's edit function gets in the way of setting a lock screen wallpaper.
Be nicer if it supported TIFF & RAW Files...
I'd like to show off my camera files on my Android.