Probably the last thing you want to admit in your app’s release notes is that you’ve integrated Appirator, the annoying “please rate me, please please please” popup that makes your paying customers hate your app. But we’ll give NexTiga’s Smart Photo Album a pass, becasue it also adds some great new real features.
The name of Smart Photo Album tells you its purpose. The app indexes your iOS photo library and lets you slice it and sort it based on various smart searches. It opens to a view showing you year-based albums, but there’s a lot more to it than that.
When viewing photos, you can star them and tag them, adding your own ratings metadata, and you can then build albums based on this data. But you can also dig much deeper, building smart albums based on date, tags, the camera or lens model filter, as well as filtering on already existing albums. And the latest version adds AND OR options for the tag filters, letting you, say, search on all photos in your Vacation album, taken with your iPhone and tagged with either Food or Drink.
Then, you can export these albums back to the camera roll, whereupon they will be ready to view in any other app that uses the iOS photo library. To refresh the album just go back to the app.
It’s a one-trick app, and it does that one trick very well. There are a few glitches (spelling errors, the inability to edit the values of smart criteria, but only sometimes), but not really anything that’ll get in the way. And as it only costs $3, is universal, and weighs just 2.6MB, you should probably have it on your iDevice.
Source: iTunes
Thanks: Huub!
