PicMate Collection Manager1.5.2 - App Store

Save your favorite illustrations, reference images, or memes you want to keep organized away from your device's Photos library.

Collection
Albums in PicMate can contain both albums and pics, allowing you to organize with even more flexibility.
Sort by name or item count, and choose between grid, list, or carousel layouts to browse your collection exactly the way you want.
Scan and quickly remove duplicated pics from your collection or within a specific album.

Libraries
Create and manage multiple libraries to keep your collections completely separate.
Organize by distinct groups of pics, or by project.

Import
Bring images into PicMate from other apps by sharing them into PicMate.
Need to bring in content from your Photos library? Use the importer to select individual photos, entire albums, or even folders all at once.
You can also import images from the Files app.

Picture in Picture
Pop out a pic into a floating window and keep it on screen while you use other apps.
Reference images while you draw, write, or browse.

App Lock
Lock PicMate with Face ID or Touch ID.
Your collections are automatically protected when you leave the app, so only you can access your pics.

Backup & Restore
Export your entire collection as a backup file and restore it on another device.
You can choose to merge the data into your existing collection, or restore it to a specific album.

Web Server
Access your library from any device on your local network.
Start the built-in web server and browse or download your pics from a computer, tablet, or another phone.

iCloud Sync
Sync your library across devices.
Choose only the libraries you want to sync, and use Optimize Storage to keep originals in the cloud.

Don't want to manage a separate library? PicMate also works directly with your Photos library, letting you browse your existing albums and collections without importing anything.

Version History Copying pics now shows a toast when the pic has been copied. 1.5.2 Jul 26 This release adds support for a new masonry style layout for pics. 1.5.1 Jun 21 This release adds support for sorting unorganized pics into albums automatically by analyzing pics in existing albums.
Additionally, drag-and-drop support has been improved. 1.5 Jun 21 - Improved color sorting
- Improved the viewer with left/right swipe gestures for navigation
- Added customization options for the viewer in the More view 1.4.3 Jun 11 This update adds support for selecting pics by swiping your finger across the grid. 1.4.1 Jun 6 This update adds iCloud syncing alongside other changes.

To facilitate iCloud syncing, a one time data migration will be required when you first start the app after updating. For large libraries, this migration may take several minutes. If you close the app during migration, migration will automatically resume the next time you open it.

* iCloud syncing cannot be turned off once turned on. The ability to turn off iCloud syncing will be made available in a later update.

Other changes include:
- Moved the Photos Mode toggle to Libraries
- Choose to recursively delete an album’s contents when deleting an album
- Allow moving pics/vids between libraries
- Support for drag and drop in and out of PicMate
- Performance improvements to the viewer 1.4 Jun 5 Improved the performance of the web server. 1.3.1 May 28 PicMate 1.3 adds support for importing, playing, and sharing video files. 1.3 Apr 4 - Increased resolution of pics in the Photo Grid widget 1.2.2 Mar 28 - Fixed an issue that could’ve prevented certain albums from showing correctly in widgets
- Fixed spacing between text and album cover for carousel view 1.2.1 Mar 27 Libraries
- Added support for managing multiple libraries

Collection
- Tweaked the animation that shows when opening albums
- Added a ‘This album is empty’ indicator when headers are hidden and an album is empty
- Added support for selecting folders from Photos
- Added ‘Name (Ascending)’ and ‘Name (Descending)’ to sort options for pics
- Added support for per-album sort and display preferences

Pic Viewer
- Added support for renaming pics by tapping the pic’s filename

More
- Moved library management options to the library management view, accessible via the Libraries menu > Manage… .

Improvements
- Improved album loading performance
- Improved pic viewer performance

Bug Fixes
- Fixed localization in share extension
- Fixed iPad navigation
- Fixed an issue that could cause album covers to not show on iPad
- Fixed an issue that could cause photos to open twice on iPad 1.2 Mar 20 Collection
- Added support for importing from the Files app
- Improve menu behavior
- Moved Import button to the top toolbar
- Moved album and pic menu to a single menu on the bottom toolbar
- Added support for hiding headers
- Improved selection bar
- Moved Select button to the bottom toolbar
- Integrated selection bar into the bottom toolbar
- Added support for sorting by color

Widgets
- Added support for Photostand and Photo Grid widgets

Pic/Photo Viewer
- Added support for viewing pics/photos in Picture in Picture

More
- Added 3 new settings to improve the share sheet experience:
- Open Search When Sharing: automatically opens the keyboard to start a search when sharing
- Show Animation When Saving: enables/disables the confirmation animation when importing a pic
- Quick Import: automatically starts importing when selecting an album without any nested albums (optionally set a default album that the share sheet will always import to)
- Added support for a local web server
- You can upload/download pics from other devices on the same network using this web server
- Reorganized some settings for clarity

Improvements
- Added support for iPad
- Improved landscape mode UI for pic viewer
- Further improved album cover performance 1.1 Mar 17 - Added support for searching albums everywhere albums are used
- Added support for scanning for duplicates

Photos Mode
- Added support for Copy and Share when long pressing photos
- Added support for drag and drop to organize photos into albums
- Added support for managing albums and folders
- Added support for the photo carousel when viewing photos

Improvements
- Improved album cover performance
- Improved pic loading performance
- Improved how Move To menu behaves to prevent accidental taps
- Added support for Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Korean, and German

Bug Fixes
- Fixed share sheet preview
- Fixed an issue where album covers would not update when moving pics into them
- Fixed an issue where pics could not be shared if they were not in PNG format 1.0.2 Mar 12 - Fixed an issue in Photos mode where app startup could take long time if there are many photos not in albums 1.0.1 Mar 6 1.0 Mar 4