Piwigo vs Shutterspace
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.
Shutterspace
Easily create collaborative albums to share photos and videos with friends and family. Invite others with a link or QR code to capture and cherish moments together. Save your favorite memories directly to your device.
- Collaborative albums
- Invite via link or QR code
- Capture moments together
- Save photos and videos
- Effortless sharing
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Shutterspace is your go-to app for effortlessly sharing precious moments with loved ones. Create collaborative albums for any occasion and invite friends and family to join with a simple link or QR code. Capture life's highlights together and cherish shared memories. Easily save your favorite photos and videos to your device with just a tap. Shutterspace makes it fun and simple to connect through shared experiences.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Piwigo at none against Shutterspace's shown. Piwigo also leads on ratings volume (182 vs 1) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Shutterspace's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Shutterspace holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piwigo has 182 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piwigo | Shutterspace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (182 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 182 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pigolabs | Spencer Bergamo |
Customer experience
Piwigo
Shutterspace
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
Shutterspace
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Piwigo
No in-app purchases
Shutterspace
No in-app purchases
