PhotoStreamr User Reviews

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Pc app just crashes

Runs and then immediately crashes when mousing over the icon.

Desperately needs to support Apple TV

This application needs to support the Apple TV natively. There is no reason why it shouldn’t.

Best app for simple photo streaming

I've been using this app for years, and was so glad to see it updated for iOS 11 compatibility. It's easy to configure and use, features animated GIF support (something shockingly ignored by most competing apps) and has good support from the devs. I can't recommend it enough!

Pixelated thumbnails

While old version of the app (from 2014) was pretty good the new one (from 2018) produces extremely pixelated thumbnails. So pixelated that it looks like 8 bit graphics. So pity. I really wish the new version get at least as good as the old one was.

Works great, hoping for an update!

I've used this software along with a mac mini, the server software and my NAS to stream and view photos on all our iOS devices. After the last update though it seems this software will no linger be allowed to run on future versions of iOS without an update...soooo, will there be an update?

No auto start

Does not start automatically with Windows 7.
Very slow and sluggish

Not ready for the iPad Pro

The UI is scaled up and it frankly looks really bad on an iPad Pro. The Dev should’ve updated it by now.

Works fine when it works, but SLOW

Extremely slow to update thumbnails. Sometimes, just wont do it. Only shows white squares. Sometimes wont show the photo... says there is a network problem. Hardly true, since nothing else on the network is slow.

When it works, displays crisp, clear photos to the iPad.

Could use Google Chromecast support. Need a way to cast the photos onto the TV.

Has not been updated since 10/2014. Over 10 months at this point. Way too long for a poorly working app with such potential.
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Breaks and doesn’t recover

On my largeish photo library, if it streams more than ~ 5,000 photos and then you close the app, it will never open again. It just spends forever loading and then crashes. This happens on an iPad 2 and 3 - the only way to fix it is to reinstall. Contacted the developer a week ago and never heard back. Super disappointing, because it is the only shuffling photostreaming app I’ve found otherwise.
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The Best!

I have tried all apps that claim to do what this one does and none come close! Also the developer was kind enough to add ANIMATED GIF support! On that note I absolutely must commend the developer. He is extremely friendly and maintains this app in a way I've not seen any other developer. If Apple releases an update or new functionality [64-Bit] he will have an update out within days! I cannot thank you enough dev!

Thank you for update!
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No Support

No updates since Nov 2013. Since then the app does not work. Firewalls turned off, anti virus turned off and the search for the computer times out. Used to be a really simple app that works. Might have been abandoned since...too bad.

Really nice!

Does exactly what it says - let's me stream my photos from home to any ios device - wifi or LTE.

Perfect!!!

This app has come a long way!

PhotoStreamr Server 2.8.2 crashes on Mavericks

The current version of PhotoStreamr Server 2.8.2 which runs on your desktop to serve files to the iOS Photostreamr app causes computers running OS X Mavericks to crash to a gray error screen whenever PhotoStreamr Server 2.8.2 is launched.

Ordering is not working correctly.

I enjoy this App, but ordering of photo is wrong. When sorted by name, the sort only checks the first few letter of a file name, if your ordinal file number is on the end of a file it won't work correctly: for example, filename001.jpg will not be sorted correctly but 001filename.jpg will be.

Great app

Does what it says and developer works on issues and updates product. A good buy for people with large image library's.

Don't work with Mountain Lion

I used on Lion and it was good, but now on ML don't work the InageBank Server. The latest release was publis on July 10, 2011. Please, support osx 10.8!!

Really quite good!

Exactly what I was looking for- Air Video for photos. Love that the server side client is lightweight and allows me to keep my own folder based photo organization. Setting up access on 3G was easy with port forwarding in router.

Only two features I'm missing is AirPlay (for showing on apple tv) and search option. Search is a big deal since I have tens of thousands of photos to navigate.

Well done dev! Love this- should be at least 4 star rating if not higher.
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Getting better each version

Pleasantly surprised with speed improvements in the latest version. Quick loading previews and images are most important to me, and this version delivers.

Does the job

Air Video for pictures although I think OrbLive could also do the trick.

As others have requested, stopping AutoLock during a slideshow is needed as well as infinite loading in random mode, not only 28 pictures.

We also need to be able to see info about the picture, name, date taken, size and folder hierarchy would be nice too (think an "(i)" button)

I sometimes get connection errors (when caching occurs ?).

One of the best features is remote download to your iOS device, but choosing the size would be a nice plus.

Keep up the good work!
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