Reviews of Photowerks: Smart Albums

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List of user reviews and ratings for Photowerks: Smart Albums

Total ratings

4.00 (Rating count: 24)

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Review summary

Photowerks excels at smart albums and metadata-based sorting, offering strong offline, on-device organization at a low price. It’s repeatedly praised for turning iPhone/iPad photos into dynamic, searchable albums and for solid developer support. The main drawback cited by users is stability, with several reporting crashes or freezes during scanning. Overall, it delivers valuable photo organization tools with room for reliability improvements.

Pros

Smart albums that automatically group photos by metadata (date, location, camera, EXIF) with dynamic filtering.
Powerful search and sort by EXIF data and date ranges.
Works offline on-device with no cloud account required.
Fills gaps in Photos on iPad, enabling smart-album workflows (especially for iCloud libraries).
Affordable price with a responsive developer and regular updates.

Cons

Crashes and freezes during photo parsing/scanning on multiple devices; stability issues.

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 3.50

All time rating average: 4.00

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20% (7)

Date	Author	Comment
2023-12-09	to*****	The app crashes and restarts about halfway through the photo parsing. When I reopen the app, it begins the parsing process all over and the same thing happens each time. iPhone 13 mini, iOS 16.6.1
The app crashes and restarts about halfway through the photo parsing. When I reopen the app, it begins the parsing process all over and the same thing happens each time. iPhone 13 mini, iOS 16.6.1
2023-11-20	Yu*****	I love this app. I almost forgot about it… after changing phones. Enough time went by so that to my good fortune, when I finally got it back they had made some great updates! Awesome way to be able to sort through endless photos! Good job guys!!
I love this app. I almost forgot about it… after changing phones. Enough time went by so that to my good fortune, when I finally got it back they had made some great updates! Awesome way to be able to sort through endless photos! Good job guys!!
2023-01-24	Br*****	It freezes up (M1 chip new ipad rebooted). Too bad. I really want smart albums on the ipad.
It freezes up (M1 chip new ipad rebooted). Too bad. I really want smart albums on the ipad.
2023-01-23	sc*****	I really wanted to use a smart album on iPad which shows all my photos that are not in albums. This app helps me do that. Great! But the reason that I use this app is to identify photos not in an album and move them to albums. But with this app you can add a photo to an album but you have to know and type the exact name of the album or else if you mistype it creates yet another album. When you try to choose an album, it doesn’t list all of your Photos albums to choose from. I have dozens of albums. There is no way I can remember the exact name of each one of the albums!
I really wanted to use a smart album on iPad which shows all my photos that are not in albums. This app helps me do that. Great! But the reason that I use this app is to identify photos not in an album and move them to albums. But with this app you can add a photo to an album but you have to know and type the exact name of the album or else if you mistype it creates yet another album. When you try to choose an album, it doesn’t list all of your Photos albums to choose from. I have dozens of albums. There is no way I can remember the exact name of each one of the albums!
2022-09-13	me*****	Keeps glitching and Crashing
Keeps glitching and Crashing
2021-05-22	Hd*****	I hate the fact that Apple only lets you make smart albums on the PC since going iPad only i haven’t been able to use smart albums. This App is the perfect solution! **One side note: The biggest reason I like smart albums is so I can make an album that shows me what photos are not sorted in other albums. It really helps clean up old junk photos. However, I did notice that the album I created on this app shows a couple old photos that do not show up on my mac smart album. Idk where the discrepancy is, but all and all this does the job!
I hate the fact that Apple only lets you make smart albums on the PC since going iPad only i haven’t been able to use smart albums. This App is the perfect solution! **One side note: The biggest reason I like smart albums is so I can make an album that shows me what photos are not sorted in other albums. It really helps clean up old junk photos. However, I did notice that the album I created on this app shows a couple old photos that do not show up on my mac smart album. Idk where the discrepancy is, but all and all this does the job!
2020-07-04	el*****	Ok, first why another phot app? Well have you ever wanted to create an album from your photos app but using the a date, location, camera type? Nope, bet you can’t! Not without this app! The app lets you create automatically updating smart albums based on criteria you want. Shoot multiple cameras and want dynamic albums, this app is for you! Want to zero in on any photos you took in July on the forth for every year? Yep this app can do that! No need for a cloud account, all the sorting is on your phone!! As a multiple camera shooter, I use Photos as part of my work flow and this app is completely invaluable!! The dev is responsive (yes, even on the 4th of July!) and agreeable to feedback!! Worth the purchase!!
Ok, first why another phot app? Well have you ever wanted to create an album from your photos app but using the a date, location, camera type? Nope, bet you can’t! Not without this app! The app lets you create automatically updating smart albums based on criteria you want. Shoot multiple cameras and want dynamic albums, this app is for you! Want to zero in on any photos you took in July on the forth for every year? Yep this app can do that! No need for a cloud account, all the sorting is on your phone!! As a multiple camera shooter, I use Photos as part of my work flow and this app is completely invaluable!! The dev is responsive (yes, even on the 4th of July!) and agreeable to feedback!! Worth the purchase!!
2020-01-14	am*****	I almost never write reviews, but this app is a godsend! iCloud Photo Library is great but you cannot search with date range or other parameters without a Mac (Smart Album). Photowerks offers Smart Album and the ability to export to a regular album in the Photo app. Photowerks makes iCloud Photo ten times more powerful!!
I almost never write reviews, but this app is a godsend! iCloud Photo Library is great but you cannot search with date range or other parameters without a Mac (Smart Album). Photowerks offers Smart Album and the ability to export to a regular album in the Photo app. Photowerks makes iCloud Photo ten times more powerful!!
2020-01-13	Ca*****	For some time now I've been gnashing my teeth over the fact that there is no built-in capability for users to create Smart albums in the iOS version of Photos. This app does a fine job of implementing a Smart album feature for us iPad users. The dev is responsive in answering questions and is open to suggestions.
For some time now I've been gnashing my teeth over the fact that there is no built-in capability for users to create Smart albums in the iOS version of Photos. This app does a fine job of implementing a Smart album feature for us iPad users. The dev is responsive in answering questions and is open to suggestions.
2018-10-26	Pr*****	Good app but need to have photos information will be the best.
Good app but need to have photos information will be the best.