PixFolio - Photos & Slideshows

As a photographer, I'm always looking for ways to do viewing parties for my clients that work from the comfort of their own home. as my clients may not always have the same software that I do. I find that this app works amazing for that purpose. 5 out of 5 Stars.

nice

does not work well when the photos are on a USB stick

good

good

slight of hand .... only allows for 3 days access and requires read/write permissions to you files. had they been upfront, I might have considered it, but to tell me after I've granted permissions, installed, etc. is frankly dishonest.

app takes you thru about a dozen configuration screens before showing the "pay up"screen

doesn't inform you of any costs etc until the very end when you've uploaded etc more clarity is needed

bad

2026 days

good

I like it

Useless to see Google Photo albums. I have hundreds of albums I would like to see on my TV, but I can't access any of them after logging in to Google Photos, I have to import every picture manually. I just want to see my albums and look at them.

good apps

to do just slide show it is asking payment

Excellent app but this app can access your whole Gmail account

nice working

It didn't shuffle truly, even it's only 1 album.

FYI paid use only

I love it.

Needs subscription, only told me after I spent an hour uploading photos.

does not work as expected. always sending me to a website to install google photos, which is already installed.

This really makes it sound like you can run a slideshow from a folder in your Google photos account. It's not possible. They seen to be misrepresenting what this can do.

$3/mo subscription to slideshow my photos is not worth it. Harvest my data instead. I would pay $3 or $5 once for this, even though it should be native to Android.

best app

excellent

sign in required ... really? for slidesshow? lol

Purchased to use occasionally. Last time I used it, it made a lovely slideshow from my Google album. Now it won't do that and you have to import, but it won't pull everything in from the album even if they are all saved to your account. If you try to add them manually, all is well until at some point it deletes everything and leaves you with just a few pictures. Workaround seems to be to make a new folder every time you add something. It's takes many hours to do something it used to do in 5 min

I am an Apple user and I started using an android tablet and this app was the only in the best app I could use to connect to both my iCloud and Google Photos to simultaneously creates slide shows of our pictures and videos. Absolutely amazing.

I purchased lifetime premium, but it will not restore my purchase!!! I want my purchase to be honored since I supported the app in good faith when it was new. I should not have to pay again. I would like my purchase restored!!!

good app

wasted time. delayed pay wall. avoid

customer service was excellent!

After trying a few apps from the play store I decided on this one. Being able to play the slide show in random order, play videos and make the app automatically start when the device powered up are all features I am looking for. My only concern is that the app WILL NOT create a slideshow from photos on Google photos. The app will only make slideshows from local photos and videos. The Google photos connectivity is just for selecting and downloading photos locally.

can't stream vid unless it's official Google photos app, hides fact until after you pay. literally impossible

ya yes

great

smooth

I really love it

why does it need to connect to Google photos to see photos even when they're only on my device? No other gallery app does this.

ok p

I think is error

very good 👍

good

Does not find folders; only finds pictures in first level of Google Photos

exceptionally good program very pleased with it

easy to use

dreadful faff to import photos

impossible to use

clunky,slow total garbage

i don't need to pay because i have a mod for have premium version without to pay premium

the best

such a useless app

Stay away! Too many updates and you don't even know what new features have been added. The admin is too arrogant to reply to your queries or suggestions.

Awesome

Great app except it often want to close and restart. other than that it does all i want it to do.

mantul

fantastic patisfant

, . 🥰 Marilyn's

I have paid for a lifetime , but it is not appearing on my tv. and when I click Google Photo, it says error has occurred pls try again later. I have tried both phone and tv

Seems to work well. 3 day trial before purchase. Please note that it has to sync your google photos locally.

that's app for pictures

hidden cost

Google photos was so easy to use & this one is cumbersome and slow. having to upload each photo individually is ridiculous and takes forever

paid app

Excellent customer service well worth the price.

app can no longer view photos stored on Google photos but instead downloads to TV which has limited memory

it doesn't have any memory storage or space to fill out with my favorite videos gifs photos and media I NEED a better way of organizing my videos storage media in files I can find in my Google Cast Apps as well as on my phone Roku Screwed Up Google Photo Veiw App for everybody Said they were upgrading Awe Hell No Google Photo App Was Dismantled by a team of expert bullshitters Can't Use This Worth A Crud Nor Can I Find Anything Butt An Error Code 429 That Disables Google Photo Veiw App For Us

does not work

canot use Google photos. app becomes useless

When another app that used to connect to Google Photos stopped working seemingly because of a Google security policy implementation, I got this one. Has been working great for several months now.

Developer is fantastic and very responsive and was super helpful thanks Brian you legend👏🏼

bakwas ghatiya

jist tell us up front that ypu have to pay

Fantastic Performance

needs google login

First, this app is a must have. Second the paid and pro versions are well worth the spend. Third, the dev is one of the most responsive and dedicated to the best solution which makes paying even more satisfying and heck of a deal.

Google photos here

Used to be excellent. PixFolio asked me to logout and reconnect and now I can't even log in from my google account anymore. Have sent the automatically generated complaint via mail and waiting for a response. Utterly useless as of now.

nice

After spending over one hour on my phone selecting close to 800 photos I got a message of Time Out and lost all the selection I made. If you put a time limit, TELL THE USER ABOUT IT... Such a bad user experience!

this app is GREAT! Plays all Google photos!

good

Forcing me to download locally makes this $16 app completely useless. Can't get my money back but I can save you yours. Don't waste your money on this trash when there are free solutions that do the job.

so easy to set up

if you use this app and the tduk app it will restore your screensaver back to the Android TV days for the latest Google update that took away your choice for screensavers

Used it for 2 years with great success. Now unfortunately Google photos blocks the application online so you have to select and DOWNLOAD the photos you want. This is limited to the memory space on my tablet

used this app for years as a screensaver on my fire TV showing my 30000 Google photos photos. no longer works due to Google now blocking app access. Not feasible to download all 30000 so app that I paid for now not usable. ☹️

Full of bugs and payed for it

I have been using this app for a long time now and very disappointed in the restriction of viewing my Google albums since the change made by Google forcing you to download and view locally.

Amazing app! But it stopped working for me because of Google Photos access. I need to find a solution now

No Chromecast without paying, so can't try it for the only use case I had.

great

great

amazing application.I'm giving it a try and doing the trial period the only thing I can say that happens is that during upload of photos from Google it times out and you constantly have to keep pressing restart. I bet once that get ironed out I'll purchase.

ok

won't work with Google photos now

nice app

It used to be an exellent App for viewing Slideshows of Google Photo Albums on the large screen devices, with an Auto-update feature included. Now, with Google blocking all apps from reading Google Photos library from March 31, 2025, the App can only play slideshow of the photos imported (downloded) to the local storage. It has greatly impacted the Apps utility. Disappointed, as I could hardley enjoy the feature for a few months after purchasing the business license.

works great, photos & videos look good - only wish one could edit photos in app

Very nice navigation and excellent support responsiveness BUT videos > 10 min will timeout. It may be because app sends to TV which cannot download entire video. So great for photos/small videos but approach may be limited by your TV. I split home videos down in size.

An excellent app. If I could work out how to use it anyone could. A very big thank you. Regards. Bruce Malouf, Sydney, 31st March 25,

I will give it 5 Stars by I got a message from my Chromecast saying the living room on her games for children in Google photos what's a cloud but that it would need to download the photos now, which Chromecast don't have sufficient space to do so, it's not a permanent situation?

Bought it and it is nowhere what is required. The issue centers on the 31 March 2025 of Google Photos new rule that forces apps that utilize photos to import the photos. But, this garbage, even in the pay mode, only gives me a 2000 photo limit. Most of us have 20 times that. So, to me it is useless. I thought the pay version would be better. Last time I do that.

Promising app. Looking for alternatives to Fotoo. However, Pixfolio lacks some features that are deal breakers for me. 1. Only show pictures according to the orientation of the device. I don't want to see horizontal pictures sideways and viceversa. 2. More options on how to fill/crop/focus the photo on the screen.

works really great! bought the lifetime already! would be nice if I can set the direction of the slideshow to forward or backward.

It perfectly fills the void of not having native Google Photos app on Android TV. To the developer, try adding a 3 second option in the Slideshow settings. 5 seconds are too long

Autostart from thumbnail for video doesn't work. Very slow video playback from the cloud - it probably loads the entire video before it starts playing.

App looks useful, but there's no mention of a 3-day trial in the description and the pricing is crazy high for anything I would want to do. It does transition pretty smoothly between photos, but that's about as far as I got before I decided to uninstall it.

Risky PIN Protection. Recently the app have started opening without requesting the PIN. It did this back in Jan and the creator fixed it. Recently it's started doing it again on all my devices so I told the creator and this way his reply.... The app has not been updated since September. The PIN stuff hasn't been updated in forever. I don't have anything more to say than the last time we went through this. Brian Wood Owner, Snapwood Apps Enough said - can't trust this app or the creator anymore

Wonderful product, well worth the premium upgrade. I use it for my travel photo albums, which include pics and videos. I also cast it to my Google Cast device to play on my 50 inch Oled TV. works flawlessly.

I downloaded this but it wanted access to my Google account, and wanted to upload my photos but all I wanted was to do a slideshow from my phone. Very invasive

Should either say upfront that it's a GOOGLE GALLERY viewer, or allow operation on a local device. Yes, first image says "Google". Third one says "local and cloud". Nothing about "Google ONLY", "local via Google ONLY". Still unmoved in my dislike.

Installed and uninstalled after 5 minutes. This app doesn't let you just choose a gallery or album on your device. You have to connect it to a Google gallery. I was looking to replace the photo slideshow app with something different, but Gallery by AI Photo Team is a far superior slideshow app, and is completely free.

it was okay, don't think it was worth $5. I got this so that I could make a slideshow for my husband for fathers day. It was very basic, no music options to play in the background, no text to write personal things on the slideshow as an option. Will be unsubscribing.

I bought this App in 2022 and have been using it since. I ran into a problem when I got a new device and Brian, the owner of the app, went above and beyond what I was hoping for. He responded very quickly and solved my issue. Will recommend as I've searched long and hard for an app like this that will pull from GooglePhotos and let you do a slideshow.

Not able to purchase this app in India. Didn't know whether it is supported in India though 3 days trial worked fine. Expexting the resolution from pixfolio team.

Had issue sorry very quick response from developer to explain I think was on fire stick that people said was not good..and could not get it to work on that .at all apologies for last post as the app is ok for custom launchers better than many wallpaper apps ever tried

I chose this app because it has a video playback feature. This is a killer feature. Please, make more settings for this feature. But I miss to choice albums which I want to play in slideshow when the the app is starting (filter of albums) . And I miss focused on faces zoom effect when photo is showing. Make your app better!

A fantastic app. Just wish, as an update, a calender could be added (connected to my google calender) to make it a more practical thing to keep on my bedside or work table. With reminders and alarms if possible.

Requests you use Google photos .which is useless for organising large galleries offline..I want a photograph browser like gthumb which is sadly not available on Android. Guess I will have buy the pro app. This might be fine if you're a Google person.

I like this app. I turned an old tablet into a digital photo frame and adding background music makes it even better.

Been using this app for many years. Always reliable and the developer has been very responsive with any questions I have had. Update: now also use this app on Sony Android TV. Works well and better than Chromecasting which is the only option Google give you. When Chromecasting Google appears to dish up a downgraded image vs the originally saved image. Pixfolio displays a better quality image in my opinion.

I originally gave this a one-star review, the the developer was quick to respond and I was incorrect in My description of the software for the price you pay when you buy it it has an excellent feature-set. The optional purchase for business license are for things that 99% of people will not use, mostly features for televisions that are mounted portrait style. Apologies on my part.

Easy to set up and configure, it works great. I would like to suggest a feature to allow filtering out photos that don't match the device orientation.

Is there a way sleep mode can turn off the screen? Mine still has some led backlight that glows in a dark room.

I've had this app for one week only. It has yet to fail me like so many photo apps often do. HOPEFULLY, this app will work out, one week at a time

Functions great for what it does. I would love to see two added functions: the ability to cast to my Chromecast while my phone is locked or I'm using another app, and for it to display two portrait photos side-by-side, the way Chromecast's ambient feature can. Other than that, it's exactly what I want!

Only shows 1/2 my google photos folder., 20 times over. Fortunately it didn't ruin my google photos. Won't bother with this anymore.

Works ok but most photos displayed in low resolution. Uninstalled.

Does very well everything shown in the description. Works very well on my tablet as well as on Chromecast with Google TV. On the tablet, when I click on a picture, it shows the text I added as description (under picture Info). I wish it would do the same on Chromecast when I press Select button (show the description I added for the picture I am looking at).

The only photo video app that handles all known mediatypes and plays them as they should in a manner that is with high usability. Kudos to the author.

Excellent app to allow for offline viewing. I'm traveling being without cell coverage, on airplanes, and in secure buildings without cell coverage most days so this app has been essential.

I am so impressed with this app. I have spent so much time on Google photos to organize and share with my kids. Your app has made it so easy to share!

Excellent program. Just what I need to turn my tablet into a photo frame. Simple and easy to use. I can upload to my Google photos and it would show in this program. Can also schedule a time to turn off the photo frame.

Really good at what it does in my initial testing, it would be fantastic to have a nice widget for home/lockscreens. A live wallpaper option as well, unless I've missed this feature. It is exactly what I was looking for except for those options. I've looked everywhere! It does what the default photos album should do! You don't need to be constantly backing up, just simply pick an album or multiple albums and it just works. Take note Google. If this adds those features, solid 6/5 stars.

Excellent! The clock and weather overlays are nice. The brief 4-day weather forecast with hi/lo temp and conditions is outright radical! Exactly what I've dreamed of. My one ask is for local folder as an album. That way it could run even when connection is intermittent. (Of course that precludes the weather overlay but it'd be worth it to leave an old tablet running as a connectionless picture frame. Maybe the weather overlay could simply not display when no connection is detected.)

Does exactly what it says, with features I need for a picture frame. Ignore the negative reviews that don't seem to understand the difference between "slideshow program" and "slideshow maker". I wanted to make my old smartphone display endless stream of photos pulled from my Google Photo albumn, and I got exactly that. There's even features to automatically start a slideshow when the smartphone boots up. The only feature request is for the program to cache images so it uses less data.

Excellent app. Wanted to make an auto-updating slide show with recent photos/videos from my Google photos account on an old tablet. Tried a few different apps, and this does the job in an elegant way, with some neat overlays (weather, clock, etc). Also easy to setup. Worth the few $ and highly recommendable if this is your goal.

Needs zoom, slide panning, and scheduling to be perfect imo. The background photo blurring is a nice touch if you don't want your pictures to fill the screen.

Not at all what I was expecting... What I wanted was an app that could create a shareable and high quality sideshow straight from G-photos without having to dl each photo and re upload everyone. But... You can't share your show. It only plays on your phone, so you'll need to find something to cast it to. Secondly, the options that you get for a paid app are dismal. Sure, you get a bunch of animations, but the details are whatever the developer wants. It's a bad free app, useless pay app.

Very quick and a lot of options. Really appreciate it

Not linked to my ANDROIDTV, list also does not show ANDROIDTV in the linked devices. When I go to PixFolio on ANDROIDTV it asks me to purchase app

Great app, by far the best I've tried. I can now use my old tablets as picture frames as I hoped, so I'm a happy customer.

I had a problem installing the app on another device and the developer of the app replied to my question within a few minutes. The app does exactly what it is suppose to do and has direct access to my Google Photos Albums so that the process of creating a slideshow takes less then a minute.

Brilliant app. Does exactly as described. Brilliant and minimalistic interface, easy to use. Just emailed the developer a question and got a reply within 15 mins which answered my question. Absolutely amazing all around. Would definitely recommend. Cheers.

if you're using a chromecast, do not buy this app. IF it actually works, there's no transition between shots, just a hard frame change and the app developer said they can't fix this. The random setting is garbage, you have to go back and forth a few times to make it work and eventually it seems to go back in order. Then there's the fact that it just doesn't work sometimes. If you made the mistake of buying this already, you can mirror your screen and get some use out of it

Works great. Nice way to turn an old tablet into a digital photo frame.

I am reluctant to buy an app without trying a free version before, but in this ocasion I took the chance and it really worth it. I was looking for a replacement for Google Photos, and this one met all my requirements. I haven't tried yet using it with Chromecast, but so far it works great and could only be an added value. Thanks and congratulations!

Really good app with good Google Photos support. While using Chromecast to view slideshows, please either don't blank the screen between photos or implement the selected animation effect from settings. The current transition is jarring and makes viewing slideshows on my tv unpleasant.

Really enjoy the app as I use a tablet as a digital photo frame, however getting a constant message saying used daily quota? Is there a way to stop this?

Best app for Google photos. This is the secret to casting Google photos glitch free to a Chromecast supported device.

I'm using a tablet as digital photo frame. After a long research, it is currently the ONLY app I've found capable of doing three tasks: displaying videos within the photo slideshow DIRECTLY from a free unlimited cloud storage platform AND autostart slideshow when the app starts. Super fast reply from developer. Minor issue adjusted in record time.

So much better than using Google Photos. Let's you sort your albums and photos as you wish.

So far, I've organized photos from my phone into albums wit Google photos, then cast them to TV us using pfolio app on firestick. I got a message ab storage upon opening pfolio. I followed the instructions but not sure what app I need to correct. I'm wondering is it Google fotos, my phone or pfolio? I need more time to do a full review. Pfolio is a real service for my firesticks and hope I can organize all with these apps. Nothing else I've used so far does it so well.

Very happy with it, does what it says. If possible would like a rotate 90 degree option please.

I forgot to say that from last app update everything works perfect. No more issues with playing video files from google photos. Now this app, and his creator (or team) deserve 5 stars ;)

I used to be able to use this for offline access, but that doesn't work anymore, even with the download option

Ideal to sync with Android app and watching your favourite photos on the big screen

great to have all your photos in one easily accessible place

only app i found that can do a slideshow on google photo album and display the photo caption.

I have used this app for several years to be able to view Google Photos when I am offline. The new version does not seem to have the capability anymore. It won't automatically download, and even if I manually "Export to Device Gallery" for each album, the photos would only be saved in the internal memory rather than on the SD card regardless how I set the "Download Location".

Great app and a good Google Photos replacement for Android TV! Plus, excellent developer assistance! Good job!!!

Signing in with my Google account wouldn't work. That's pretty much a show stopper with this app.

When casting a slideshow the chromecast symbol is displayed on each image like a watermark. Hopeless.

Best way to get a decent slideshow on Android. Even direct from your Google photos albums!

I used to love this app, but for some time now I've found it unusable because it shows every day that I take photos and share them as an album with the photo date. I only want it to show (and download) real albums that I created, like it used to. Another app on the play store is able to separate these out as posts. I'm not prepared to go into the display settings every day and hide albums of all the photos I took and shared that day. I'd rather just use Google Photos itself and wait until I have WiFi. Disappointing.

Nice app, works great on nVidia shield to view slideshows. I wish there was a way to have a Google music Playlist or Radio station play while the slideshow is on.