# Piwigo — Your photos in your Cloud

> Mobile client for cloud-based photo gallery software. (iPhone/iPad app by Pigolabs.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/piwigo/id472225196 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Pigolabs](https://appshunter.io/developer/978060564)
- Category: Photo & Video
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 181 App Store ratings · 73 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.6 · 45 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese and 6 more
- Released: 2011-10-17
- Data updated: 2026-08-24
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/piwigo/id472225196/reviews.md

## What is Piwigo?

Piwigo for iPhone/iPad/iPod supplements the photo gallery software in the cloud Piwigo (v12.0 or higher):

• Browse your albums,
• Create, delete, move and rename albums,
• Search, edit, download and delete photos and videos,
• Copy and move photos and videos between albums,
• Add and remove photos and videos from your favorites,
• Set a photo as album image,
• Upload photos and videos:
   - of modifiable size and quality,
   - with description, author, tags, EXIF metadata,
   - with or without GPS metadata.
• Share photos and videos.

Piwigo empowers you to create your own photo gallery on the web. It includes many powerful features such as albums, tags, geolocation, many levels of customization, upload by visitors, privacy, calendar or statistics.

Piwigo is free and opensource.

Piwigo is also compatible with the following extensions:
- Community: allows users to create albums and add photos
- rotateImage: enables you to rotate images
- piwigo-two_factor: adds two-factor authentication (2FA)
- piwigo-videojs: adds video support

Feedback or questions ?
Piwigo offers free support at https://piwigo.org/forum and we'd love to hear from you.

## Key features

- Browse and manage albums
- Edit, download, and delete photos/videos
- Upload media with metadata
- Organize photos into albums
- Share photos and videos
- Set album cover images

## What do users think of Piwigo?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 👍 Great for photo sharing control
- 👍 Free and awesome
- 👍 Best for self-hosted pictures
- 👍 Sync feature is great
- 👍 Flexible photo organization
- 👍 Fast support response
- 👍 Privacy-focused option
- 👍 Strips metadata
- 👍 Latest update is fast
- 👍 Brilliant app
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 👍 Works straight away
- 👍 Easy to use and stable
- 👍 Quick and simple interaction
- 👍 Superb technology
- 👍 Works well for adding/managing
- 👍 Convenient and easy to use
- 👍 Great user experience
- 👍 Great companion to gallery
- 👍 Excellent addon for online gallery
- 👍 Great mobile experience
- 👍 Useful for updating site
- 👍 Simple and convenient
- 👍 Perfect companion for home server
- 👍 Easy to use for new users
- 👍 Syncs pictures fast
- 👍 Outstanding app for uploading
- 👍 Family uses it
- 👍 Handy for freeing phone space
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 👍 Knows uploaded photos
- 👍 Can delete phone pics, keep in app
- 👍 Great update, new look
- 👍 Simple interface
- 👍 Uploads multiple images
- 👍 Superb app
- 👍 Works well for backing up
- 👍 500 star value
- 👍 Gets the work done
- 👍 Works as advertised
- 👍 Best thing out of France
- 👍 Complements gallery perfectly
- 👍 Works well for uploading
- 👍 Great start
- 👍 Fantastic, better than coppermine

**Cons**

- 🐛 iPad app connection issues
- 🐛 Uploaded photos not showing
- 🐛 B&W images render blurry on iPad/iPhone
- 🐛 Pictures only display momentarily
- 🐛 Uploads have stopped
- 🐛 Severe bug: deleted photo reappears
- 🐛 Live Photos not uploaded with 'live' portion
- 🐛 .MOV files fail to upload
- 🐛 Images stuck uploading for hours
- 🐛 Auto-download toggle deactivates
- 🐛 Crashes constantly on iPad
- 🐛 Permission errors on iPad
- 🐛 App needs auto upload camera roll
- 🐛 Users cannot delete their photos
- 🐛 Images no longer load
- 🐛 Cannot download original size photo via iOS app
- 🐛 Uploads hanging after update
- 🐛 Doesn't connect to custom domains
- 🐛 Crashing since last update
- 🐛 Album images layout issues
- 🐛 Thumbnail size adjustment ineffective
- 🐛 Uploading from cloud photos problematic
- 🐛 Uploads fail or resize to tiny images
- 🐛 Interface bugs, selection issues
- 🐛 Not compatible with iOS 8
- 🐛 Freezes on password entry
- 🐛 Cannot see existing albums
- 🐛 Album creation silently fails
- 🐛 Cannot upload photos
- 🐛 App not updated, upload issues
- 🐛 Stopped allowing photo uploads
- 🐛 Cannot select multiple pics at once
- 🐛 Freezes during upload
- 🐛 Uploads freeze after first photo
- 🐛 Doesn't upload geo info from exif

**Commonly reported bugs**

- iPad app connection issues
- Uploaded photos not showing
- B&W images render blurry on iPad/iPhone
- Pictures only display momentarily
- Uploads have stopped
- Severe bug: deleted photo reappears
- Live Photos not uploaded with 'live' portion
- .MOV files fail to upload
- Images stuck uploading for hours
- Auto-download toggle deactivates
- Crashes constantly on iPad
- Permission errors on iPad
- App needs auto upload camera roll
- Users cannot delete their photos
- Images no longer load
- Cannot download original size photo via iOS app
- Uploads hanging after update
- Doesn't connect to custom domains
- Crashing since last update
- Album images layout issues
- Thumbnail size adjustment ineffective
- Uploading from cloud photos problematic
- Uploads fail or resize to tiny images
- Interface bugs, selection issues
- Not compatible with iOS 8
- Freezes on password entry
- Cannot see existing albums
- Album creation silently fails
- Cannot upload photos
- App not updated, upload issues
- Stopped allowing photo uploads
- Cannot select multiple pics at once
- Freezes during upload
- Uploads freeze after first photo
- Doesn't upload geo info from exif

**Most requested features**

- Ability to browse in Photos and open in Piwigo to upload
- Double tap to zoom
- Auto upload camera roll
- Search capability
- Support for multiple accounts
- Better album image layout
- Ability to see and add comments
- Video support
- Nextcloud integration
- Download original size photo via iOS app
- Support tag editing on upload
- Cache photo galleries for offline viewing
- Upload geo info from exif data

## Recent user reviews (10 of 73)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/piwigo/id472225196/reviews.md

### 3/5 — Can’t connect

*2025-04-05, version 3.3.1*

Firstly, thanks for the overall system, I was looking for photo sharing software that lets me control permissions and this is perfect!

I can’t get the iPad app to connect.  The iPad itself will connect using any browser and my iPhone will connect using either the iPhone app or a browser.  Windows can also connect.

I am using http as I only share via a VPN.

### 3/5 — To the creator of this app

*2025-01-24, version 3.2.4*

The app itself is good however when i had uploaded my photos on this app its not showing up on the app itself please fix this asap

### 5/5 — B&W images render blurry on the Ipad

*2024-09-24, version 3.2.2*

Just this week there has been a change where the Pwigo IOS app renders black and white images blurry. Colour images don’t seem to be affected. If I use the mobile browser on the website running Piwigo, the pictures render just fine. The same Piwigo app on my IPhone also renders b&w images blurry.

Update beta fix tested, looks good! 5 stars

### 5/5 — Love it!

*2024-08-26*

It’s free and awesome!

**Developer response:** Thank you very much!

### 5/5 — Best app for self hosted pictures

*2023-12-30*

I love the sync feature and it has plenty of options

**Developer response:** Many thanks for your feedback 👍

### 3/5 — I give up

*2023-09-20, version 3.0.2*

I give up on Piwigo. Have been running a server with Piwigo since at least 2014 or earlier. Now on mobile the pictures only display momentarily. Uploads have stopped. Time to cut losses and move the files to something else while the backups and originals still exist. 
Enjoyed it while it lasted. Thanks.

### 1/5 — Bug

*2023-03-22, version 2.12.7*

Bug sévère après un upload qui a foiré. Après suppression d’une photo, celle-ci réapparaît en plusieurs exemplaires dans la galerie. J’ai eu beau la supprimer encore et encore, elle réapparaît toujours. Je suis rendu à 32 duplicatas. Déconnecter de l’appli semble avoir réglé le problème.

### 5/5 — Mr martin

*2022-12-18, version 2.12.6*

Absolutely love this program, uploads straight from my phone. 
Very flexible and I love the fact that you can organise your photos online.  

Just had an email from support which was super fast another star for service.  
Would recommend to anyone. 
Keep it up

### 3/5 — No support for Live Photos? Or .MOV?

*2022-10-13*

The app itself is really nice, I wish I could make the web ui as user friendly as the app. 

But of the few test uploads I did none of my Live Photos were uploaded with the “live” portion. My photos were apparently converted from HEIC to jpeg. And all of the .MOV files I tried uploading failed with an orange  exclamation mark…

Im hoping this is just a bug or a setting I messed up. But it’s not looking that way…

**Developer response:** Today, only the photo of a Live Photo is uploaded to a Piwigo server because the VideoJS extension is not installed on servers by default. Photos are converted to JPEG because servers are not compatible with HEIC.

We foresee to bring an option allowing to select whether the photo and/or video of a Live Photo should be uploaded. This will require the installation of the VideoJS extension.

Please note that you can upload videos if VideoJS  is installed on your Piwigo server (HEIF videos will be converted to MP4 before uploading).

### 5/5 — Great app

*2022-08-31*

I really love this app. I have a feature request and was wondering how difficult it would be to implement.
I would love the ability to browse a picture in Photos, and then open the picture in Piwigo to upload it to my gallery. The problem I currently have is that it is not as smooth to scroll through nand find picture in the upload screen in Piwigo as compared to Photos. Hope this makes sense.

Thank you.

**Developer response:** Thank you for your review and the suggestion which is in our to-do list.

## Frequently asked questions about Piwigo

### What does the Piwigo app do?

The Piwigo app allows you to manage your cloud-based photo gallery directly from your iPhone or iPad. You can browse your existing albums, create new ones, upload photos and videos with detailed metadata, edit media, and share your content.

### What are the key features of the Piwigo app?

Key features include browsing and managing albums, searching, editing, downloading, and deleting photos and videos. You can also upload new media with customizable size, quality, and metadata, including EXIF and GPS information, and share your media.

### Is the Piwigo app free to use?

Yes, the Piwigo app is completely free to use. It is the mobile companion to the free and open-source Piwigo web gallery software.

### What are the compatibility requirements for the Piwigo app?

The app is designed for iPhone, iPad, and iPod and requires a Piwigo cloud gallery software installation of version 12.0 or higher to function.

### How can I get support for the Piwigo app?

You can get free support for the Piwigo app by visiting the official Piwigo forum at https://piwigo.org/forum. This is where users and developers discuss the software and provide assistance.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 4.3.1 — 2026-08-22

• Bug fixes

### 4.3 — 2026-08-01

• Adds a Share extension allowing to upload photos, videos and PDF files from other apps
• Plays animated GIF images
• Fixes bugs and improves the interface

### 4.2.4 — 2026-07-01

• Fixes bugs and improves the interface
• Allows to change the maximum number of simultaneous connections to the Piwigo server

### 4.2.3 — 2026-05-29

• Fixes bugs and improves the interface
• Pauses uploads when the device needs to cool

### 4.2.2 — 2026-05-24

• Fixed a bug related with the auto-upload option
• Improved translations

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