Poke Album helps you organize and manage your collection of the Pokemon Go gift postcards. Just take a screenshot and let Poke Album do the rest.
While collecting Pokemon Go gifts is as easy as taking a screenshot, Photo Library is not the best place to keep track of hundreds of gift cards. With Poke Album you can build your collection in a whole new way, with easy browse, search, World Map view mode and statistics!
HOW IT WORKS
• Take one or more screenshots of your new Pokemon Go gift cards before opening them
• Launch Poke Album and let it automatically import the card pictures into your collection
• Poke Album uses image recognition to extract title, location, and the sender friend’s name directly from the screenshot
KEY FEATURES
• Automatically* (or manually) import gift cards from your Photo Library
• Attach additional pictures and view the original screenshots even after they are deleted from your Photo Library
• View and filter list of friends and countries you received the gifts from
• Organize your gifts with custom tags, like ‘graffiti’, ‘fountains’, ‘libraries’ or anything else
• View your gifts on the World's Map* and find out which gift is the farthest one from your current location
• Use iCloud to backup* and restore your album, or sync it between multiple devices
• Free up the device's storage and declutter your Photo Library by deleting already imported screenshots, which are now stored in the Poke Album app
PRO FEATURES PACK
You can use Poke Album completely free, or you can get Pro Features pack with awesome features like automatic import of screenshots, the World's Map with your gifts, standard and custom collections, and secure iCloud backup of the album.
COLLECT POKEMON GO GIFTS LIKE A PRO!
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DISCLAIMER
Poke Album is a third-party app and is not affiliated, associated, or in any way officially connected with the Niantic or the Pokémon brand.
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* available with Pro Features pack via one-time in-app purchase
I downloaded this because I maxed out my postcard storage but didn't want to delete my old cards to pin new ones. It works great for unopened gift postcards, granted the OCR tech needs a little correction now and then, but I would really like it to have a more streamlined process to scan cards that I already opened and pinned. Currently I'm working on screenshotting and manually importing my pinned cards, and since it doesn't automatically recognize them as gift postcards I have to override it and force it to scan anyway and fill in the date and friend name data myself, which takes a lot of work but I can rest easy knowing my collection is getting backed up. I know its hard work to develop another scanning algorithm for a different layout, but this would be an awesome quality of life addition! I also found the Getting Started and FAQ pages lacking, like I still don't really understand why some of my cards have a little blue dot or why some of their titles are green and some are yellow. A tutorial walkthrough of all the features would be helpful. Awesome app, have already recommended it to my PoGo friends :)
You need to manually check the location.
FaeriMagic
If you input the coordinates that most postcards are automatically assigned into Google Earth, you will find that many of the locations are incorrect. I usually then try my best to find the correct location coordinates so my gift map will be more accurate. However, there are many postcards where I am unable to pinpoint their correct location. There is a small bug where clearing the location to empty and saving will not actually save the new empty location. I had to input a period in order for the app to recognize that I wanted a null location. Postcards screenshotted from the in-game Postcard Book are NOT currently recognized. Trying to scan them in anyway will cause the postcard image to rotate 90 degrees. It would be helpful if there was some way to note what sticker each entry had. I collect sticker variations of the postcard locations as well. At the moment, I’m currently using a tag for the stickers, but it would be really great if there was a better way to implement this information. (Perhaps have a way to allow users to make their own collections?)There is a sort option in the Album and Friends tab, but there is no sort option after clicking on one of your friends in the friend tab. What if I want to see all of Friend A’s postcards chronologically? Or Alphabetically? Improvement suggestions aside, I’m really enjoying the app! My previous postcard collection method didn’t include a map, so it’s really nice to see all my collected postcards pinpointed on the map. The map alone makes the Pro version worth it!
Developer Response
Hi! Thanks for your feedback. Version 1.18 addresses the issue with clearing the location. This version is currently in review and will become available soon.
Great app. Couple of improvements would make it even better
Cliff1066!
As mentioned in the previous review scanning of postcards already in collection is a must. Still is worth using to save postcards and is the best app for this. Minor improvements should include:Alphabetical list of friends - should not have lower case and capital letters as separate. A and a should go together.Try to remove reading sticker text on scan. When scanning collected postcards (not gifts) sometimes it misses the last letter. Needs scan field enlarged?Sometimes, when scanning collected postcards (not gifts) if you scan the card twice it will add both if the dates and time scanned are different. Again with scanning collected postcards scan does not read location latitude and longitude. *** Still this app is a must for Pokémon go postcard collectors.
Worth it!
TheBlueFlamingo
I enjoy collecting postcards and long ago maxed out my in-game storage. I really like the organization this app can do, especially the custom categories so you can sort by themes. The downside: it works easily for new postcards, but you have to manually import old postcards’ screenshots if you’ve already saved them in your Pokémon Go scrapbook. My only other complaint is that it doesn’t show stickers in the list view. (You can click into them to see the stickers.) That said, it’s still very worth it for me and I’m glad to have it! I tell everyone about it.
Resolved problems with the new gift card styles that could break automatic image recognition.
Version 1.33
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Information
Seller
Alexander Demurov
Size
214 MB
Category
Games
Compatibility
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.