Noodle Gallery vs CineLocal
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
CineLocal
Organize and watch your local movie collection with this app. It transforms your video files into a visually appealing library with rich metadata and offline playback. Enjoy features like watch parties and local streaming without cloud uploads.
- Import movies from local sources
- Organize into a cinematic poster wall
- Offline playback
- Watch together on local Wi-Fi
- Stream movies locally
- Customizable library layouts
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CineLocal turns the video files you already own into a private, beautiful movie library. Import movies from Files, iCloud Drive, USB storage, or other local sources. CineLocal organizes your collection with poster artwork, details, ratings, genres, runtime, collections, playlists, and seamless resume playback—so finding something to watch feels like browsing your own streaming service. YOUR MOVIES STAY YOURS • No account required • No cloud uploads • No recurring subscription • Your library stays private and available offline BUILD A LIBRARY YOU’LL WANT TO BROWSE Choose the view that suits your collection: Poster Grid, Compact, List, Cinematic, Shelf, or Carousel. CineLocal can match movie details from clear filenames, create a Continue Watching row, and let you organize titles into collections and playlists. WATCH ON YOUR TERMS Play your local video files wherever you are. Connect to SMB shares on a NAS or home server, stream over your local network without uploading to the cloud, transfer movies directly between devices, or watch together on nearby devices connected to the same Wi-Fi. Try every feature free for 7 days. After that, browsing and playing your library stays free, and a one-time $1.99 purchase unlocks watch parties, transfers, Nearby Stream, network shares, unlimited imports and extra skins. No subscription. For best metadata matching, use clear filenames such as: Inception (2010).mp4 Dune 2021.mkv Demo films shown in screenshots: Sintel, Big Buck Bunny, Tears of Steel, Elephants Dream and Cosmos Laundromat © Blender Foundation, CC BY.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Noodle Gallery at none against CineLocal's 1. Noodle Gallery also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. CineLocal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Noodle Gallery asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Noodle Gallery against 5.0 for CineLocal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
Noodle Gallery ships an update weekly, CineLocal every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Noodle Gallery | CineLocal |
|---|---|---|
| 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 — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 101 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Pierre Marais | Jimmy Mullins |
Customer experience
Noodle Gallery
CineLocal
In-app purchases
Noodle Gallery
No in-app purchases
CineLocal
- CineLocal Lifetime Unlock$1.99









