PhotoCloud Frame Slideshow

PhotoCloud Frame Slideshow

Android Digital Frame App for Tablet, Phone and Android TV

App info


December 02, 2024
64,794
Android Varies with device
Everyone
Get PhotoCloud Frame Slideshow for Free on Google Play

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App description


Android App Analysis and Review: PhotoCloud Frame Slideshow, Developed by Martin Vysny3. Listed in Photography Category. Current Version Is v6q, Updated On 02/12/2024 . According to users reviews on Google Play: PhotoCloud Frame Slideshow. Achieved Over 65 thousand Installs. PhotoCloud Frame Slideshow Currently Has 446 Reviews, Average Rating 3.6 Stars

Just sit back and watch your photos with your family; convert your old Android tablet to a digital photo frame; browse your cloud photos, hassle-free. No-fluff and no bloat; old-school app which is simple to use and just works.

Able to retrieve and slideshow photos from the following sources:
- OwnCloud/NextCloud server, even with self-signed https certificate
- Dropbox
- Local Gallery
- Flickr
- Microsoft OneDrive
- Windows Shares (Samba)
- Mega
- Instagram (Instagram removed the Feed API thus only the Recent Media is accessible)
- SSH and SFTP
- DLNA/UPNP
- Box
- Google Drive
- Google Photos (Picasa)
- iCloud Public Share

Respects user's privacy: PhotoCloud is the only Android Digital Frame application which supports your own personal OwnCloud/NextCloud servers (including self-signed https certificates), your own SSH+SFTP servers, photos located on your Windows machines, etc.

Supported images/pictures types:
- bitmap: png, gif, bmp, jpg, jpeg
- raw: crw, cr2, nef, raf, dng, mos, kdc, dcr (by default ignored since loading RAWs will generate huge network traffic; please enable RAWs in app's Settings / Filters)

Endlessly cycles photos from any combination of the streams. You can play all photos from the stream, or you can limit the stream to given list of directories (and subdirs). You can also browse the files of the stream manually. The photos are automatically cached locally; when offline, you can show slideshow from cached photos only.
Supports slideshowing photos from subdirectories.

You can stream photos to TVs in the following ways:
- ChromeCast Slideshow (requires Android 4.4 and higher) - casts current slideshow to your TV from your mobile phone
- Android TV - you can run this app straight on the TV and control it via the TV remote control
Also supports Daydream Screensaver Slideshow (Android 4.2 and higher only).

Pricing: free version shows a "please purchase" images once a while during the slideshow. There is an in-app payment which removes these images. Another in-app payment unlocks the Daydream/Screensaver integration.

Please note:
This is just a digital frame / photo browser. It does not play any music (only a background one ;), does not create videos, does not replace your gallery app, it does simply one thing - shows a slideshow of your photos - and does it simply and right.

Because of its nature, the application generates a very high network traffic - please make sure you have WIFI enabled. The app has built-in network protection and will abort the Slideshow if WIFI disconnects.

No annoying video commercials, simple to use. This application is at its infancy, please let me know which features would you like me to implement. The following features are planned:
1. Each directory will be able to be configured with a daily hour range at which the directory is polled for photos - you can create a daily gallery, an evening gallery, even a night gallery.
2. Add support for Facebook ...

Required permissions:
INTERNET - to download photos from cloud services
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - to workaround a bug in older Androids to cache photos
GET_ACCOUNTS - Google Drive and App Billing requires this
BILLING - In-app purchases
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE - allows PhotoCloud to monitor for WiFi and stop slideshow to avoid cellular network charges
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED - to automatically start (if so configured)
ACCESS_WIFI_STATE - to discover DLNA devices
CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE - to discover DLNA devices
WAKE_LOCK - to keep the phone awake during slideshow
We are currently offering last version updated 02/12/2024 . This is our latest, most optimized version. It is suitable for many different devices. Free download directly apk from the Google Play Store or other versions we're hosting. Moreover you can download without registration and no login required.

We have more than 2000+ available devices for Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, Motorola, LG, Google, OnePlus, Sony, Tablet ... with so many options, it’s easy for you to choose games or software that fit your device.

It can come in handy if there are any country restrictions or any restrictions from the side of your device on the Google App Store.

What's New


Minor

Rate and review on Google Play store


3.6
446 total
5 46.2
4 10.3
3 13.7
2 14.9
1 14.9

Total number of installs (*estimated)

Estimation of total number of installs on Google Play, Approximated from number of ratings and install bounds achieved on Google Play.

Recent Comments

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Terry Canaan

Browse no longer works on my android. Returns a 404. I get an error message saying Google's blocking the app. Now I wish I hadn't paid for it.

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Karen Spindler

I purchased version to be able to use as daydreams screen saver. But, there is no place to enter daydream settings for photocloud. I have set up slideshow, that works fine, but when I run daydreams it uses every single image found on my sd card. My phone is OnePlus Nord n10. Can you please help me with this? Many thanks. Also I sent an email to the Google groups address in the app but it bounced.

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S Smith

Very happy. Works well with my synology server and dlna on my nvidia shield and 65" samsung tv. Have used over 2 years now. Very addicting. Have spent many evenings watching the slideshow instead of TV. Great when u have family over. Looking forward to being able to control content shown to the folder level. I have over 500,000 pictures on server and this works great! Thank you

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A Google user

I'm using PhotoCloud Frame Slideshow to play a slideshow of the images I've uploaded to Flickr. I get a white screen with the text "This photo is no longer available" with about 25% of the photos that are in my Flickr photostream. These same images will display during a later cycle of the slideshow. So, the slideshow isn't very enjoyable with so many bright blank white slides. It would be better if the app would do a better job of grabbing and caching the images. Or, at least skip those that generate the error screen. Or, use a black screen (or match background color) with small white text and only display for a fraction of a second those that "are no longer available."

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A Google user

After trying 7 other photo frame apps this one works the best. It does almost everything I want a photo frame to do. AND the developer is a reasonable person who is still working to make the app even better and won't ruin the app with annoying interface updates. When you upload a new photo to Google Drive, the photo appears within a few seconds (unlike other apps where you have to wait several minutes or hours).

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Heiji

The basic slideshow function is fine. Two problems: 1. The Filter on Image Size option (portrait or landscape) oddly does not work for images in the Camera folder. 2. The Ignored Directory option is hard to use. I don't know what path to type in to correctly filter out a folder. I tried several times, but it didn't work. One suggestion: adding the ability to pause and to immediately go to the next image.

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Josh G

This apps works great now! The developer fixed the Google Photos bug and it's well worth the optional $4 to support the developer. However, new complaint :). The "random photos" on the slideshow doesn't work very well. It seems like it only randomizes by a large group of photos at a time and keeps that same sorted list the next time I launch the app. I would greatly appreciate a better randomize function!

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Joshua Naylor

I've been using the pro version of this app for several years now, running it on 5th Gen Amazon Fire. Everything works great synced with Google Photos, but, I can't seem to get the Start of the Day / End of the Day to work. I clicked on the menu and "set" the clock for 6A then 10P and even toggled the option above to give the app control but the slide show does not start up in the morning or end in the evening. It just keeps running all night. Is there something I'm missing wth that function?