Gallery - Photo Album is a smart, simple, and secure photo gallery and photo…
Apps SpecialsSerious warnings 2 confirmed warnings. Checked: 400 reviews and the Android app’s code.
From our automated analysis, 30 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 2.0.19 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 2.0.19, updated 2026-10-27.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Gallery - Photo Album is a smart, simple, and secure photo gallery and photo manager that helps you easily manage, organize, and protect your photos and videos. Designed to provide a seamless HD browsing experience, this gallery app serves as your photo album organizer, gallery vault, and AI-powered photo viewer — all in one.
Whether you want to edit photos, create stunning albums, or lock private media files, Gallery — Photo Album is the perfect tool to keep your media sorted, safe, and accessible.
✨ Key Features of MagicAI
🔹 Smart Photo Organizer
Automatically organize your photos, videos, and albums for easy access. View your media in HD quality and group files by date, location, or custom albums.
🔹 Photo Vault & Private Gallery Lock
Move sensitive photos and videos into a secure gallery vault.…
From the developer’s store description.
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The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
Bundles 16 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: Amazon Publisher Services, AppLovin MAX, BidMachine, Chartboost and 12 more
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:2caf72b8eb8587f72d0f1b5d337e1a153f47e2bf0f9edeef2e849b97955a6e4aAggressive ad load: raised by 19 distinct reviewers (about 1 in 21 reviews we read)
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
Facts that add context without being a charge.
Requests 7 sensitive permissions (ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, CAMERA, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, READ_MEDIA_IMAGES, READ_PHONE_STATE, SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW); the median for 523 scanned apps in Photography is 3
The package requests substantially more of the device's sensitive permissions than the typical app in its category. This is a measurement, not an accusation: a permission is granted because a feature needs it, and a wide request list is a reason to look rather than a finding on its own.
Package artefact
sha256:2caf72b8eb8587f72d0f1b5d337e1a153f47e2bf0f9edeef2e849b97955a6e4aOpen observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Sells a subscription in-app but ships no cancel or manage-subscription text of its own, leaving the store's settings as the only exit
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Package artefact
sha256:2caf72b8eb8587f72d0f1b5d337e1a153f47e2bf0f9edeef2e849b97955a6e4aThe app's own text says: "Unlock everything & get Ads Free Experience"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Package artefact
sha256:2caf72b8eb8587f72d0f1b5d337e1a153f47e2bf0f9edeef2e849b97955a6e4aOffers a trial ("Get Premium Now!") and states no renewal price, renewal date or auto-renew notice anywhere in the app's own text
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a free trial without stating, beside it, what happens when the trial ends. Read this as context rather than as a charge: renewal terms are normally shown on the store's purchase sheet instead, which we cannot see, and we can only observe one kind of evidence for this — so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
Package artefact
sha256:2caf72b8eb8587f72d0f1b5d337e1a153f47e2bf0f9edeef2e849b97955a6e4aThe app's own text says: "Are you sure you want to delete this item?"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
Package artefact
sha256:2caf72b8eb8587f72d0f1b5d337e1a153f47e2bf0f9edeef2e849b97955a6e4aThe app's own text says: "Adjust Brush"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Package artefact
sha256:2caf72b8eb8587f72d0f1b5d337e1a153f47e2bf0f9edeef2e849b97955a6e4aThe app's own text says: "Audio is not available."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:2caf72b8eb8587f72d0f1b5d337e1a153f47e2bf0f9edeef2e849b97955a6e4a400 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.
I love this application, can you please remove all ads and also news section in pro version please? as it's a gallery app I feel it should be just a gallery app.
Every time the app is updated, it becomes more and more miserable to use, there are so many ads, not like the previous version 🤡
i wanted to give zero stars. Very bad app with many ads. I suggest you to not to download this app. The worst app😡😡
A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 2.0.19, scanned 29 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 2.0.19 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-30 .
The store currently lists version 2.0.19, updated 2026-10-27.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
gallery-google-com-magicai-gallery-photoeditor-photo-albumAssessed 2026-10-30 from 400 user reviews and the app's package.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
This assessment is produced automatically. Four independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every recurring plan the store lists is named as weekly, the term read from the purchase names, with a list cut off at the store’s 10-item maximum not assessed; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
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