Piwigo appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Piwigo is 78 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Piwigo User Reviews

Name: Piwigo
Rating: 4.6 (181 reviews)

Piwigo

Pigolabs

📷 Photo & Video

Customer Experience

Positive experience68.5% of reviews

Neutral12.3% of reviews

Negative experience19.2% of reviews

~ Based on 73 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Piwigo. Based on 181 reviews and a 4.6/5 average, it highlights the 45 positives and 35 negatives reviewers mention most about this Photo & Video app.

Positive things

👍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

Negative things

🐛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

Is Piwigo Safe?

Piwigo appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Piwigo is 90/100.

This assessment is based on 181 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

90.6% of ratings point to a safe experience

5.0% of ratings suggest some concerns

4.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 181 App Store ratings for Piwigo.

Is Piwigo Legit?

Piwigo appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Piwigo is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Most Recent Highest Rated Lowest Rated

Can’t connect

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.

Somersetter

a year ago

To the creator of this app

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

Blobby125

2 years ago

B&W images render blurry on the Ipad

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

JRadnor

2 years ago

Love it!

It’s free and awesome!

KabirTechDives

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you very much!

Best app for self hosted pictures

I love the sync feature and it has plenty of options

Nick.p.g

3 years ago

Response from developer

Many thanks for your feedback 👍

I give up

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.

Jaye Scot

3 years ago

Bug

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.

Shogix

3 years ago

Mr martin

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

Pmartin172

4 years ago

No support for Live Photos? Or .MOV?

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…

RelikLink

4 years ago

Response from developer

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).

Great app

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.

Quitchat

4 years ago

Response from developer

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

A Great Alternative to Less Private Apps and Services

Piwigo has a lot of features built in and can be extended using plugins. I think where Piwigo really shines is In it’s ability to be more privacy focused. Purchasing hosting provided by the group behind Piwigo themselves is a great way to support the company and the product they have made, but you also have the option to self host all your photos and link the app to that computer. Some other great features built into the app itself is the ability to strip the uploaded photos of metadata which is also nice in not sharing location data and other information if for lets say a family member posts one of your shared photos online. Anyway, a great app and I wanted to support it by writing this review.

nextcloud123

4 years ago

Response from developer

We appreciate very much your review which motivates us to pursue our efforts in improving Piwigo. Thank you very much. 👍

Images stuck uploading for hours, even after phone restart

Images I selected to upload to my website are still pending hours later. I even restarted my phone, deleted the select images, closed the app several times. Nothing helps — they’re still pending. Gonna try a reinstall.

sourwonder

4 years ago

Response from developer

We are sorry to hear that you encountered problems for uploading images. Please, do not hesitate to contact us at ios@piwigo.org if the problem persists to help us understand and fix the issue. Thank you.

Great App!

The latest update is fast!! No complaints whatsoever.

turtlereef

4 years ago

Response from developer

We are very glad to learn that you enjoy our free app. Thank you very much 👍

Brillant App

Thanks for all the work developing the app.

Double tap to zoom would be really nice!

davipatti

5 years ago

Response from developer

Good idea. Thank you. 👍 This will be implemented in the next version 2.9.3.

Problème version 2.9

Dans cette version, le toggle télécharger automatiquement de désactive tout seul et freine les upload.

este 514

5 years ago

Doesn’t work on iPad

Crashes app constantly and permission errors when working on iPad Air 4th gen, but works fine on iPhone

mandal252d

5 years ago

Response from developer

The version 2.9 we are finalising should fix the problems you encounter with your iPad. It will be available soon. Please contact us at ios@piwigo.org that is not the case.

Excellent compliment to your Piwigo account

Very very good app. I use it all the time now. No problems connecting and using the app, thanks for the great work.

One suggestion if I may. When viewing an album of the photos where broken up into date taken or upload blocks. A break in the album view with the date in a dividing line for example. But hey as it is it’s brilliant. Thanks again for a great job.

Derekjoneslighting

5 years ago

Missing one key feature

App needs the ability to auto upload camera roll. Been trying to find something to switch from Nextcloud. I like everything about this except for that fact.

gr0uchyhubz

5 years ago

Response from developer

The next version will bring an auto-upload option. We presently work on it 👨‍💻.

Very good

good app but can user not admin del their photos on app？

user friendly and good

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your review. When the "user delete photo" plugin is installed on the Piwigo server, a Community user can delete his photos from the web interface. We have contacted the developer of this plugin and wait for an update of the plugin to add the function to the iOS app.