# Random Slideshow — user reviews > 74 indexed App Store user reviews of Random Slideshow by Kevin Hartsock, rated 3.80/5 from 66 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/random-slideshow/id1143559364/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/random-slideshow/id1143559364.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 33 · 4★ 15 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 12 ## Newest reviews (14 of 74) ### 4/5 — New features pleas *2025-10-16* Option: Randomly select until it’s gone through every photo. Don’t repeat until all have been seen. Option: then loop once every photo has been seen once ### 4/5 — Better than iOS 18 slideshow. *2024-12-26* Can’t find any way to contact Developer other than writing a review. Questions: 1) Any way to stop early other than force lquit? 2) Any Pause/Resume? Suggestions: 3) Default to previous selection or to Offer of previous selection. 4) folder picker feels like wasted space/ ancient. 5) allow custom input of slide duration. Thanks ### 2/5 — App crashing *2024-07-25, version 1.8* The app crashes on iOS 17.5 when trying to select an album to start a slideshow from. I can currently only start a slideshow from my favorites album because that is the default album. ### 4/5 — Simple way to see my pictures randomly *2023-11-05* I use this app on my iPad to see the many pictures I've taken, sort of a review of the many places I've been. Now it is available on my Mac Studio and I will use it often. This functionality should have been added to Photos a long time ago. The Mac version can't see smart albums like the IMac version can. This would be a welcome fix. A suggestion, I can find no app that properly displays panoramas. When this app or any detects a panorama it should fit the smaller dimension to the display and then smoothly scroll Ken Burns style across the long dimension. ### 4/5 — Very nice and easy to use. *2023-09-20, version 1.8* Would love to eventually see it AirPlay to TV ### 4/5 — Custom time *2023-04-16* Kevin, I’m not sure if you’re still here or if you even remember developing this app. But could you possibly add a feature to customize the time it displays each image? Please and thank you ### 2/5 — Lost access to Hidden folder when upgraded to latest OS *2023-01-21, version 1.8* When my system updated to the newest OS 16.2 the app could no longer find the hidden files. This had been one of my favorite apps. Hope they will consider adding access. ### 4/5 — Key Feature Missing: Repeat *2022-10-25* Simple, easy to use. However, no “repeat” or “loop” option for those using as a digital photo frame. Once all the photos have been displayed, the app shuts down. ### 4/5 — Great app for old iPad *2021-04-26, version 1.8* Running iPad with max iOS v9. Tried 15 other apps and this works great (so far). Wished it could do Ken Burns effect but this is still better than what. Came with iPhoto back in the day. ### 3/5 — Support animated gif *2020-11-15, version 1.8* Now that iOS supports animated gif format, it would be great if this app did the same. Then you would really have something unique. ### 4/5 — App not working with iPhone 8 *2020-10-09* This app was great and then it recently stopped working. I contacted Apple and they were completely useless. With this in mind if anyone knows of why this may be happening would love feedback. The app developer does not seem to be accessible Thanks ### 5/5 — Does what it says on the tin *2020-04-23, version 1.8* I never thought it would be so hard to find a random slideshow app until I started looking. Every other app wants you to pay for more than 10 pics, don’t play photos randomly or require some kind of sign in. This one is brilliant and simple. It just plays photos in a random order and doesn’t over complicate a simple task. There are a few options to enhance user experience but at the end of the day it’s a random slide show creator. ### 4/5 — Good App- needs a couple fixes *2019-12-30* Plays a shuffled album really well for a while but then it starts to just freeze. Randomly. Also wish it would stop the screen from blacking out, like it would recognize as a “video”. Love that it will just shuffle my pictures and is so simple! ### 5/5 — Simple does just what I wanted *2019-12-27* All I wanted was a way to show in random order a large set of pictures (over 10,000). Nothing in OS X, Apple TV nor iOS could do this simple task. This does just that and worked great. Using this app all I had to do was pick the pictures I wanted. Copy them to an album and sync it with my iPad. I then used an hdmi adapter and this app to show them on a tv screen for family during the holidays Worked great Thank you ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No longer works *2024-11-18, version 1.8* This app does not work with iOS 18 on iPhone. Too bad I used to use it frequently. ### 1/5 — This app has filled my iPhone library *2023-11-10, version 1.8* If you use this App, the iPhones Photos App library will fill endlessly with previous synched photos. There is no way to delete these pictures afterwards. So your library will fill your iPhone with data. Plus, there is no support for this App and no way to contacts developper. I really do NOT reccommend this App. ### 1/5 — ehhhhh! *2023-10-14, version 1.8* You can’t choose pictures from an external hard drive or flash stick??? Only what is on your ipad! Very primitive. Kind of like the state of the art LG TV not having a previous channel button on their remote. 😵‍💫 it’s 2023 almost 2024. wake up!!! ### 1/5 — Airplay? *2020-09-19, version 1.8* Why no airplay ### 1/5 — Does not work. *2020-06-24, version 1.8* All it does it sit there in a blank grey screen. Nothing can be interacted with and it can’t find any photos or anything. Complete trash in current form as of 6/24/20 ### 1/5 — Privacy no no *2020-04-14, version 1.8* support page leads nowhere and no privacy policy to be found. App is fun, but data leakage is a big risk ### 1/5 — Waste of time *2019-12-19, version 1.8* Freezes after 3 or 4 slides. Thought it might be because I was doing a slideshow of a shared iCloud album. But tried it with a locally stored album on my iPad. Same result. Freeze. (Insane that apple photo app cant do a random slideshow completely annoying) ### 1/5 — Maybe it works? *2019-11-13, version 1.8* I tried it with an album with two photos. I gave up after 30 seconds of nothing. ### 1/5 — Not so good *2019-05-13, version 1.8* Got this for my husband’s iPad. It sets rep, starts to play the photos, and after 2-3 minutes it just goes black. He’s not real happy about tha5. ### 1/5 — Doesn't work *2018-05-08, version 1.8* Using on iPad 4, won't let me select an album. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Awesome but would be nice if you could do a slideshow that would also play videos too *2026-01-13, version 1.8* Love the app so much I’d love to be able to have videos in the slideshow and make them actually play instead of just being a still image. Either in this app or make a new one just for slideshows 🙏 ### 5/5 — Simple with Miracle! *2025-06-12, version 1.8* The app is lightweight and simple. It supports my 15 years old iPad. I really appreciate the developer for creating this wonderful app! ^_^ ### 5/5 — Beautifully Simple *2022-11-10, version 1.8* Does one job and does it well. The only way I think it could be improved would be if there were an option to skip (to next photo) or go back (to the previous photo). An interesting photo is displayed a conversation is started but it’s gone by the time others get to see it. ### 5/5 — Really good. Pls keep updating bc it works well and everyone likes it *2022-11-08, version 1.8* Great !!! ### 5/5 — Exactly what I needed *2022-11-06, version 1.8* Small app to use as photo-frame for memories. Has Random function missed in the standard Apple photo app. ### 5/5 — Awesome free app *2021-12-28, version 1.8* For the price, you cannot beat this app. Does exactly what it says with minimal fuss ### 5/5 — Excellent simple slideshow! *2021-04-10, version 1.8* Perfect solution to use my old 3rd generation iPad as a digital photo frame. Does just what I need. ### 5/5 — 👍👍 *2021-01-17, version 1.8* Its exactly what i was looking for an app that can display my camera roll photos in a slideshow without having to create a slideshow one photo at a time i highly recommend this app. ### 5/5 — Exactly what I was looking for! *2020-12-04, version 1.8* This might not be a life changing app. But it certainly does what I had been looking for! ### 5/5 — Brilliant, simple and just what I have been looking for. *2020-05-24, version 1.8* THANK YOU!!! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*