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Slidebox brings its photo-management app to Android

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8 years ago

April 12, 2016

Slidebox brings its photo-management app to Android

In what is seen as a viable collaboration, Slidebox is bringing its photo-management app to Android.

The new application called Slidebox aims to help Android users clean up their photo library by swiping to delete unwanted photos, as well as use other tools to more easily organize photos into albums. It’s sort of like“Tinder for Photos” with a few extra features, in fact.

The app is now one of many utilities arriving to address a long time challenge smartphone users face – that is, our devices make it simple to take unlimited photos, but they don’t offer the same ease of use when it comes to reclaiming free space from our phone’s limited storage.

Slidebox was previously available on iOS where it competed with apps like Room for More, Ice Cream, PhotoShrinker, InfinityRoll, Everalbum, and many others.

Designed by former Amazon developers who originally built the app because they, too, struggled with having too many photos and no good way to organize them, the idea with Slidebox is to let you quickly move through your many images and make instant decisions on what to do with each one, using gestures.

On Android, you’ll swipe up on the photo to trash it, which helps to free up space.

In actuality, the photo gets marked as “trash” in the app, but nothing happens outside of the app until you take further action. This allows you to recover photos from the trash, in case of accidental swipes. To fully remove the trashed photos, you have to actually empty the trash in the app – similar to emptying the trash on a Mac or PC.

In addition, Slidebox lets you place photos into albums just by tapping a button at the bottom of the screen. While the iOS version requires you create albums by name in the app instead of pulling in existing albums, the Android app lets you add existing albums from your gallery as well as create new ones. That makes it a bit more useful on this platform.

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