HashPhotos 4+

11/10 👍 A must have. This is the photo management app that Apple should have made.

This app make photo management & organization on iOS and iPadOS actually usable & worked for the first time. It literally makes the default photo app on iphone from Apple looks like a joke (which it is). A must have for anyone loves to curated their photos: the tray features and the album-sort menu makes it effortless. There is an unsorted folder by default. The custom smart album features work beautifully and make up for the non-existent smart album on iOS. It works very fast & reliable) (In addition, there are even more filters in the smart album than the one on the macOS app from Apple if anyone wonders. So i dare to say this also makes the apple macos photo app also looks like a joke). There are many tiny small features but brilliant in the app that improves the QOL for the app show that the dev for this app actually care to perfect the app. It like they read my mind. A tiny feedback is that if the dev can make the sidebar on the ipad app stop auto-hiding & the ability to hide local album tabs on both platform it would have been a 12/10. 🙏🙏🙏👍👍

Developer Response ,

Thank you for using HashPhotos and for leaving such a positive review. We appreciate your support and will continue working hard to make the app even better.
We will consider whether it is possible to implement an option to stop the sidebar from auto-hiding on the iPad app.

The BEST.

Not personally a fan of hyperbole when it comes to app reviews specifically, so believe me when I say that this app is hands-down THE BEST photo app there is! After years of owning an iPhone/using the App Store, I've never made an app review until now. I am finally doing so not because of incentivized pricing or in response to a bombardment of pop-ups telling me to do so...just simply to be helpful by letting others know, HashPhotos is the one to get & is worth every penny!
The one thing I can even think of to possibly improve this near-perfect- app is the option to manually sort photos.
The best example of this I've come across is in "Video Safe 2" where the order in which you click your photos when choosing to import, is the same order those photos appear after import. Also the order you "select" photos in an album is the order they are "move"-ed or "copy/paste"-d

Good so far, one request

Mostly great but one annoying issue persists: whenever I select images and add them to a folder, I get stuck with the annoying little green drop-down notification "added to..." and it completely locks up the app for like 5 seconds, so that you can't even scroll or do anything.

If you're in the process of going through many images and adding them to appropriate folders, this annoyance is just compounded again and again.

Couldn't we just eliminate the notification entirely and keep the app from locking up like that? I don't need to be notified of the action I've just taken again and again so explicitly.

4/5/25 update: still no improvement on the freeze/lag that happens every single time I move images to folders, and it's getting so bad I'm questioning whether I can deal with it and even keep using the app. Please make this a priority fix, it's been going on much too long.

Also encountered a new weird glitch where if you're scrolling through and at any point decide to use a touch gesture to enlarge the thumbnail size to 1 row across, it always suddenly jumps way up in the folder to some other spot. I could be at the bottom of a folder highlighting several images I plan to add a tag to or move to another folder, but if I zoom in to the largest thumbnail size, bam I'm warped to some place way farther up in the scroll and have to search to find where I was before. Hopefully this can be addressed soon as well.

Developer Response ,

In the latest update (ver. 5.9.4), we’ve added some new developer options to help narrow it down.
When you have time, we’d greatly appreciate it if you could test the following and email to us at support@hashphotos.app :
Go to HashPhotos Settings > Developer Options and try enabling one or both of these options:
• Disable Sidebar Auto Refresh
• Disable Photos Auto Refresh

Then try adding photos to an album and see if the freezing behavior still occurs or improves.

Your feedback would be very helpful in tracking down the issue.
We sincerely apologize once again for how long it’s taking to resolve this issue. Thank you for your patience and understanding.


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Thank you for continuing to use HashPhotos and for taking the time to share your feedback.
We sincerely apologize that the issue you mentioned has not yet been resolved.

We’ve prioritized this problem and are actively investigating it, but despite numerous tests, we’ve been unable to reproduce the issue on our end.
The logic behind the related features also hasn’t revealed any clear problems so far, and since this seems to affect only a small number of users, it’s been challenging to isolate the cause.

That said, we’ll keep digging and do our best to identify and fix it.

We’ll also take a closer look at the additional glitch you mentioned regarding the thumbnail zoom resetting scroll position.

Thank you again for your patience and support — we truly appreciate it.