Noodle Gallery vs Fox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Noodle Gallery
This app automatically backs up your photos and videos to your own server, offering powerful AI-driven search and organized sharing options. It provides full control over your data and privacy, with no ads or cloud storage.
- Automatic photo and video backup
- AI-powered smart search
- Create shared spaces with permissions
- Face recognition for photo grouping
- Map view of photo locations
- Organize with albums and tags
- Deduplication of uploads
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• Automatic Backup Photos and videos from your phone back up automatically to your Gallery server. Works in the background, resumes on interruption, and never duplicates. • Powerful Search Find any photo instantly. Search by location, date, people, camera, tags, or even what's in the image using AI-powered smart search. • Shared Spaces Share photos with family, friends, or co-workers. Create spaces with different members, each with their own permissions. Activity log shows who added what. • Face Recognition Gallery automatically groups photos by person. Name the people you know and find all their photos instantly. • Map View See where your photos were taken on an interactive world map. • Albums & Tags Organise your library your way with albums, tags, favourites, and ratings. • Deduplication Never worry about duplicate uploads. Gallery detects and handles them automatically (photos and videos). • External Libraries Connect existing photo collections from network drives or disks without importing. • Full Control Every feature runs on your own server. No data leaves your network unless you explicitly share it. REQUIRES A GALLERY SERVER Gallery is a self-hosted solution. You need to run the Gallery server on your own hardware. Setup takes about 5 minutes using Docker. Learn more and get started at https://opennoodle.de OPEN SOURCE Gallery is free and open source, forked from Immich with additional features focused on shared spaces and privacy. Source code is available on GitHub. PRIVACY BY DESIGN • No analytics or tracking • No ads, ever • No cloud storage - your server, your data • End-to-end control over who sees what
Fox
Access and download your school portraits directly to your phone. View your entire gallery, save your favorites, and share them instantly with family using a simple access code. Enjoy high-resolution, print-quality downloads with a copyright release.
- Access school portrait galleries
- Download photos to phone
- Share with family
- High-resolution downloads
- Copyright release for printing
- No account required
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Fox-Mar delivers your senior portraits and school photos straight to your phone. Open your gallery with the access code or link — no account, no password, nothing to sign up for. View every photo, download your favorites, and share them with family in seconds. • Enter your code once and your gallery is saved to your device • View your full gallery anytime, on any device • Download photos right to your phone • Share with family — the same code works for everyone • High-resolution galleries allow for full, print-quality downloads plus a copyright release for printing Photos by Fox-Mar Photography. Questions? Email support@foxmar.com.
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Verdict
Noodle Gallery and Fox are too close to call on the numbers: across 9 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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 — 5.0 for Noodle Gallery against 5.0 for Fox. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Noodle Gallery | Fox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Pierre Marais | Fox-Mar |
Customer experience
Noodle Gallery
Fox
In-app purchases
Noodle Gallery
No in-app purchases
Fox
No in-app purchases









