Noodle Gallery vs Refav Gallery
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 search capabilities and secure sharing options. Organize your library with albums, tags, and face recognition, all while maintaining full control over your data.
- Automatic photo and video backup
- AI-powered smart search
- Secure shared spaces with permissions
- Face recognition for photo grouping
- Map view of photo locations
- Organize with albums, tags, and ratings
- Duplicate detection and handling
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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
Refav Gallery
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Refav Gallery turns the posts you liked and bookmarked on X into your own private gallery to revisit anytime. ■ Import Open your Likes in the in-app browser and scroll — the posts you see are imported automatically. There is no automated browsing. Only what you scroll through yourself is imported. ■ Revisit Browse your imported images, videos, text, and linked articles in a timeline or shuffled gallery. Open any image to get recommendations for similar images right there. ■ Filter View everything from one creator together, or look back at what you liked at a particular time. ■ Plans The Free plan lets you view 50 images per day. Basic (Monthly) gives you unlimited viewing. Importing is unlimited and free on every plan. Basic (Monthly) is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel in iOS Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. ■ Terms & Privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Service Terms: https://x-fav-gellery.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://x-fav-gellery.com/privacy Refav Gallery is an independent app and is not affiliated with X Corp.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Noodle Gallery at none against Refav Gallery's 1. On price, update cadence, ads 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. Refav Gallery sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per month. Noodle Gallery asks for nothing beyond the download.
Noodle Gallery ships an update weekly, Refav Gallery every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Noodle Gallery | Refav Gallery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | David Pierre Marais | naoya takimoto |
In-app purchases
Noodle Gallery
No in-app purchases
Refav Gallery
- Basic (Monthly)$5.991 Month








