About
Folio is a gallery and media explorer for Android users who want more than the stock gallery provides. It surfaces the full depth of your local media (metadata, RAW files, hidden folders, every format) and includes editing tools without leaving the app. Folio is built on the BSD-3-licensed Aves Gallery codebase and adds the features long-requested upstream but not delivered: in-app editing (crop, censor, tone adjust), RAW develop with libraw's postprocessing pipeline, true Ultra HDR rendering on capable hardware, advanced access into hidden and nested folders, and performance tuned for 100k+ photo libraries. A single $3.99 unlock owns Pro forever. No account; no ads; no analytics, telemetry, or crash reporting.
What it does
- Handles JPEG, PNG, HEIC, RAW, multi-page TIFF, SVG, MP4, old AVI, and more
- Detects motion photos, panoramas, 360 videos, and GeoTIFF files
- Deep EXIF / IPTC / XMP metadata viewer
- Map view of geotagged media
- Android integrations: widgets, app shortcuts, screen-saver, global search, media-picker
- Built on the BSD-3-licensed Aves Gallery; no analytics, telemetry, or crash reporting
What you get free, and what the $3.99 unlock adds
Free
- Browse photos and videos by album, date, or tag
- EXIF / IPTC / XMP metadata viewer
- Search by date, tag, location, or text
- Map view of geotagged media
- Slideshow and screen-saver modes
Pro · $3.99 one-time
- In-app editing: crop, censor, tone adjustments
- RAW develop using libraw's full postprocessing pipeline
- True Ultra HDR rendering on capable hardware
- Advanced folder access (hidden and nested directories)
- Performance tuning for 100k+ photo libraries
Privacy at a glance
- No personal data is collected by Folio.
- All app data is stored on your device.
- No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting.
- No account is required to use the app.
Read the full Folio privacy policy or learn about account and data deletion.
Permissions Folio requests
- Photos and videos (user-selected)
- To display the photos and videos you grant access to.
- Media location
- To read the geolocation tag stored inside a photo file (for the map view). Location is read from the file only and never collected by Folio.
- Set wallpaper
- To set a photo as your device wallpaper from within Folio.
- Post notifications
- To show progress of long-running operations such as batch export.
- Wake lock
- To keep the screen on during the slideshow and screen-saver modes.
- Internet
- Used only to verify your purchase with Google Play. Your media never leaves the device.