Shuffle Photos

App might be good but too many ads pop up way to often, and difficult to figure out how to get rid of them. Even closing the app and re-opening and the ad is still there. Ended up deleting the app because I couldn’t use it enough to really test it out.

I purchased the app — I love the simplicity, I do not need bells and whistles, just the shuffle and basic controls it provides. I’d give it 5 stars but I don’t see an option to share the entire slideshow, just individual photos.

I’ve been using this app maybe a year; very very nice for shuffling pics which should be a standard feature in iOS photo but isn’t. That said, I just recently updated and noticed a few degradations of the experience: 1. The feature listed as “gifs can now be paused” could also be listed as “gifs can no longer be viewed on repeat when shuffling photos, only when viewing photos in their album order.” Since I got the app in order to shuffle pictures, and since gifs are usually intended to repeat, this is kind of annoying. I would prefer this to be configurable; the play/pause of a video or gif should not be the same as the play/pause of the slideshow. Alternatively and maybe even better: give a “shuffle” button for an album independent of the slideshow “play” button. I.e. allow the listed order of the contents of an album to be shuffled in a semipermanent fashion, but allow this shuffle to then be turned off to restore the usual listing order of that album, or reshuffled to give a brand new order. That would be a nice feature on its own, but it could still be independently nice to have a toggle for “gifs and videos continue playing when slideshow is paused” (or two toggles, one for gifs and one for videos, if you like). This would solve the regression in experience. 2. When the “more options” button is pressed (top right in 1 tap menu during slideshow), a “pause” overlay is now shown briefly even if the slideshow was already paused. This is a regression; it didn’t happen before. Previously the “pause” overlay would only be shown at this point if the slideshow was playing before the button was tapped. 3. The addition of the “crop/rotate” option is nice (I haven’t used it yet), but since it doesn’t show for videos, it means the rest of the buttons in the menu are in different places for videos compared to photos. I use the “add to album” button a LOT, to essentially use albums like tags (another thing iOS photos doesn’t let me do), by shuffling photos (and videos) to go through them in random order and then adding or removing them from various albums as I go through. Having the “add to album” button sometimes higher or lower in the list (because “crop/rotate” pushes the option down when present) makes this harder, so this is an annoyance. A good solution that I would like would be a more configurable one-tap interface. For example since I can swipe to go to “next” or “previous,” I could replace the “next” tap spot with “add to album” directly, and the “previous” tap spot with “remove from current album.” This is just an example, but I love the one-tap interface and some configurability would increase the utility and handle the annoyance caused by the menu being different in some cases. Another easier option could be to allow configuration of the “more options” menu order. Still very happy with the purchase but these are some annoyances I’ve run into after updating. There’s still no better way to review photos in shuffled order on iOS so thank you. Would like to increase rating back to five stars if these points could be addressed. :)

Get the paid version and you will be very happy.

I downloaded today and love it, love it, love it. I am ready to buy, except for one thing. After using a short time, it made no difference what the view time was entered, the picture exchange was 2 seconds. The ads were a pain trying to troubleshoot, but until the timer works I will not purchase. Update. The fix you sent took care of the problem and I purchased the pro version. Thanks

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. I just needed a slide show option to Photos since they have made it deplorable since iPhoto. I just wanted to run a slideshow of a photo album while I cook and listen to the music of my own choosing on Apple Music, not one song repeatedly. Thank you Uchida-san, I couldn’t be happier. まさに探していたものです。iPhoto以来、写真アプリのスライドショー機能がひどくなっていたので、写真アプリにスライドショー機能が欲しかったんです。料理をしながら、Apple Musicで好きな音楽を聴きながら、写真アルバムのスライドショーを再生したいと思っていました。同じ曲を繰り返し聴くのではなく。内田さん、ありがとうございます。本当に嬉しいです。

Does pretty much everything I hoped it would! Main bit of feedback I have for the dev, it would be a good idea to include the slideshow config options in the outermost settings screen, next to “speed upper limit” and such, to make it easier to find.

I use this app without paying for anything, and it’s really decent for what it us. It does slideshows of your photo album, as intended, and I can appreciate you not hiding that base feature behind a paywall after downloading the app. The few critiques I have, however, are the following. 1. Add speed settings below 1 that goes to 0.1 for full customizability. I use this app exclusively while listening to music on my earbuds, and it always bugs me when it’s juuust not fast enough to match the tempo. 2. Add a beat match/sync setting so that it automatically plays at the same exact rate of the music tempo you’re listening to in the background. I don’t know how that would work, but… You’re smart, you can figure it out! And pretty please with a cherry on top DO NOT lock this feature (assuming you add it) behind a paywall. There’s already enough excellent features you have locked behind it, so at least make the beat match/sync setting free for peasants like me. Thank you! Best wishes.

Like this app very much, however when I run slide show thru AirPlay to my Apple TV4, which is then connected to my wide screen (16:9) Sony TV, the horizontal photos are squeezed in size, it seems the app sends out photos to a 6:4 TV, is there a way to configure the app so that its output is 16:9? (My update to my above previous review) Thank you so much for the quick reply to my review, it is very unusual, it appears you are a responsible app developer. I tried all three Underscan settings (Auto/On/Off) of my Apple TV4, none of them seem to work and the problem persist. Looking forward to a future update of the app.

Easy to use the settings, does exactly what I was looking for. Slideshows can play both photos and videos, shuffling them all, making my iPad a perfect digital photo/video frame when I’m not using it. Thank you!