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Auto albums: your photos grouped by moment, named for you
iEdit groups the photos on your iPhone, iPad or Android phone into albums by moment: five or more photos taken without a gap longer than three hours form an album, named after what most of them show. The grouping runs on your device, and the tool is free.
Overview
A wedding, a hike, a Sunday market: each one leaves a cluster of photos in your gallery, and Auto albums turns those clusters into albums without you lifting a finger. Any run of five or more photos with no gap longer than 3 hours between them becomes an album, and the album is named after what most of its photos show rather than after a date, so you can tell the hike from the market before opening either.
The rule is deliberately simple and runs entirely on your device: time stamps decide where an album starts and ends, and on-device image recognition, Vision on iOS and ML Kit on Android, decides what to call it. Albums are a view inside iEdit; your gallery's own albums and the photos themselves are not changed. Limited photo access is supported, so you can keep private pictures out of the tool altogether and still get albums from the rest.
It is for anyone who takes photos faster than they sort them: a parent with years of birthdays, a traveller with a hundred cities, a club secretary with every match. Browse an album and add what you want to My files, or open the Gallery timeline for a date-based view instead. Auto albums are free, and nothing is uploaded or synced; the albums exist only on your phone.
Why people use it
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Moments, not folders
Five or more photos taken within three hours of each other become an album by themselves.
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Named by content
Each album takes its name from what most of its photos show, recognised on your device.
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Your gallery untouched
Albums live inside iEdit; nothing is moved, renamed or deleted in your photo library.
How to use Auto albums in iEdit
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Open iEdit, go to the Photo tab and choose Auto albums.
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Grant access to all photos or to a selection.
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Wait a moment while iEdit groups and names the albums on your device.
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Open an album to browse it or add photos to My files.
Frequently asked questions
Where are the auto albums stored?
Only on your device. iEdit groups photos by their time stamps and names each album with on-device recognition; nothing is uploaded, there is no cloud sync and no account is needed. The albums are a view inside iEdit, so your photo library's own albums are left exactly as they are.
Is Auto albums a Premium feature?
No. Building albums, browsing them and adding photos to My files are all free. iEdit Premium concerns taking files out of the app, such as sharing or saving to Files, which Auto albums does not need. There are no ads anywhere in iEdit.
How does iEdit decide what makes an album?
By time. Photos taken one after another, with no gap longer than 3 hours between any two, belong to the same moment, and a moment with 5 or more photos becomes an album. Smaller clusters stay out, so you get the events of your life rather than hundreds of tiny albums.
Try Auto albums in iEdit
Available for iPhone, iPad and Android.