This App Brings Google Photos to Entry-Level Android Smartphones

The latest Go app from Google makes sure you can separate photos clicked on the device by its type.

Gallery Go is part of Google’s mission to make entry-level devices more than useful.

(Photo: The Quint)

To help users store photos in handsets having less storage and unreliable Internet connection, Google has introduced a lighter alternative to Google Photos called "Gallery Go" that weighs just 10MB. It can be downloaded from the Google Play Store and your account is already synced, the moment you give the app access to your device.

The photo gallery app is designed to work offline and automatically organise photos using Machine Learning (ML) and help first time smartphone owners easily find, edit, and manage photos, without the need for internet or cloud backup.

Gallery Go is available in the Play Store for devices running Android 8.1 (Oreo) or higher.

The light app comes with editing tools for instant fixes along with a variety of filters. The offline usage of the Gallery Go makes sure you have a dedicated space for photos, all segregated depending on its type, which can be portrait, a selfie or a landscape image clicked from the device.

Photos on the app get arranged according to their type.(Photo: The Quint)

Gallery Go was designed to help you manage your photos using less data. And at just 10 MB, the app won’t slow down your phone and leaves space to store more memories

<a href="https://www.blog.google/products/photos/gallery-go/">Ben Greenwood, Product Manager, Google Photos</a>

Details about the wider roll-out of the features currently unavailable for everybody remain undisclosed as of now.

This is what you get with the Gallery Go app. (Photo: The Quint)

Previously, companies like Facebook and Twitter have also rolled-out "Lite" versions of their main apps.

Google has also done something similar on the operating system (OS) level with Android Go -- a lightweight Android-based OS designed to run on cheaper smartphones.