Piwigo vs ACDSee Mobile Sync
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piwigo
Manage your cloud-based photo gallery from your mobile device. Organize albums, edit photos and videos, upload new media with detailed metadata, and share your creations. This app complements the web-based Piwigo software for a seamless photo management experience.
- 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
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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 albums, 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 - Share Album: allows to share private albums with people who do not have an account - 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.
ACDSee Mobile Sync
Easily transfer photos and videos from your mobile device to your computer over Wi-Fi. The app tracks sent items, allowing for quick transfers of new content or selective sending. It supports various file types and offers advanced options for metadata editing and file organization.
- Direct Wi-Fi photo and video transfer
- Automatic tracking of sent items
- Configurable filenames and subfolders
- Support for original and edited versions
- RAW, HEIC, Live Photos, and Burst image support
- Metadata editor (GPS, IPTC, ratings, labels)
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ACDSee Mobile Sync makes it easy for you to send photos and videos directly from your mobile device to ACDSee Photo Studio on your Mac or Windows PC over Wi-Fi. Sending is as Easy as 1-2-3! 1. Select items you want to send. 2. Tap the Send button. 3. Confirm the target and tap Send. ACDSee Mobile Sync keeps track of which items have already been sent. Just tap on the Send button to send all new items, or select specific items to send. Quickly send to your default target by long pressing on the Send button in the app, or use the "Send New Items" application shortcut from the iOS home screen. Advanced features: * Configurable filenames and subfolders based on predefined templates * Optional sending of original and edited versions of photos and videos * RAW and HEIC photo support with optional transcoding to JPEG * Configurable support for Live Photos and Burst images * Built-in metadata editor allows adding GPS and IPTC metadata to your photos, as well as ratings and labels The ACDSee Mobile Sync app works with ACDSee Photo Studio 2018 and later for Windows as well as ACDSee Photo Studio for Mac 8, available now at acdsee.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Piwigo at every 3 weeks against ACDSee Mobile Sync's every 2 months. Piwigo also leads on review sentiment (69% vs 57%). ACDSee Mobile Sync's advantage is ratings volume (650 vs 182) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.5). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Piwigo against 4.7 for ACDSee Mobile Sync. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 182 and 650 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Piwigo's written reviews are positive against 57% of ACDSee Mobile Sync's.
Piwigo ships an update every 3 weeks, ACDSee Mobile Sync every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piwigo | ACDSee Mobile Sync |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (182 ratings) | 4.7 (650 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.3% of reviews — better | 57.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 182 | 650 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pigolabs | ACD Systems International Inc. |
Customer experience
Piwigo
ACDSee Mobile Sync
User reviews
Piwigo
From 182 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for photo sharing control
- 👍 Free and awesome
- 👍 Best for self-hosted pictures
- 👍 Sync feature is great
- 👍 Flexible photo organization
Room to improve
- 🐛 iPad app connection issues
- 🐛 Uploaded photos not showing
- 🐛 B&W images render blurry on iPad/iPhone
- 🐛 Pictures only display momentarily
- 🐛 Uploads have stopped
ACDSee Mobile Sync
From 650 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and reliable sync
- 👍 Easy to use and configure
- 🔒 Secure local transfer
- 💡 Convenient photo management
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional sync issues and crashes
- 🔋 Drains battery when running in background
- ⚠️ Compatibility problems with newer devices/software
- 🕰️ Slow performance with large photo libraries
Bugs and requests
Piwigo
Reported bugs
35 issues- iPad app connection issues
- Uploaded photos not showing
- B&W images render blurry on iPad/iPhone
- Pictures only display momentarily
- Uploads have stopped
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- 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
Requested features
13 requests- 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
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- 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
ACDSee Mobile Sync
Reported bugs
3 issues- Fails to detect target device on same network
- Duplicate photo uploads due to sync issues
- Crashes when transferring large number of files
Requested features
4 requests- Automatic background sync
- Support for additional file formats (e.g. HEIC)
- Ability to sync between multiple devices
- Integration with cloud storage services
In-app purchases
Piwigo
No in-app purchases
ACDSee Mobile Sync
No in-app purchases
Questions
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