Looking for a gallery app for Android Options

[pandy]

I got around to trying QuickPic. I couldn't get much to work and their tutorial didn't seem to correspond to what I actually had on my phone. No option to tag for instance. Googling found that it was bought up a couple of years ago and since then has been on a slippery slope, people are uninstalling it. Rumor has it the current owners also are known spammers and more.

But, by searching for QuckPic replacements I found this page with two possible options for me.
https://lifehacker.com/5814868/the-best-pho...app-for-android
I'm trying f-stop and it seems to do what I want. The other one, Focus, is neater according to the page's author, but you need to pay to get the tagging option. There's a paid version of f-stop too, but I haven't figured out if it offers anything I need yet. Oh, it has a cool option, password protected folders. I think in this case it really moves the files. Just what I need. I've taken pictures of some rashes I get that comes and goes, to show my doctor. Don't want just anyone to see those!

So thanks again, thematrix. I wouldn't have found anything without your tip.

[pandy]

I'm more than content with f-stop. It has everything I could wish for. I use it daily and can really recommend it. My one complaint is that it has no way to add comments to the meta data for an image.

I have a large SD-card and upload images from my real camera to it, so I always have my pictures with me. The way I can create virtual folders and albums and sort and order images any way I want without the app ever copying, moving or touching the picture files in any way is great.

So... now I'm looking for a similar desktop program. Anyone happens to know of one?

I blew the dust of an old one I used to love back in the day, PhoA. It was very promissing, but development seized back in 2005. It's still useable, but if a modern program with the same approach exists it would maybe be better. PhoA had some quirks, mainly supporting limited image formats.
https://yktoo.com/en/software/phoa/

I've tried searching, but only find image viewers like Irfan and editors. I'm not interested in editing. It's the unlimited virtual folders, albums/views and the untouched file system I'm after.

[pandy]

I've just learnt there are Android emulators, for example https://www.bluestacks.com/ . I'll try that tonight and see how it works. I have my doubts though.

[pandy]

BlueStacks was rather cool (but huge!). Turned out file operations were rather cumbersome, need for shared folders and stuff, so I uninstalled it again. But for games I imagine it's fun.