Images are among the most widely used and popular types of content on the Internet, which are widely used for a variety of purposes. Especially in social networks and messengers, images have many fans and all users use them to express their content. There are high-quality cameras on smartphones with which the user can easily take beautiful and attractive pictures. These cameras are designed in such a way that along with every photo they record, they also save additional information such as the time of photo recording, location, camera type, etc., so that it is easy to organize and manage photos. In addition to the images recorded on the phone, most of the images we receive from the Internet and social networks also have this information. Usually, gallery applications only use the time of recording photos to categorize and sort them. This has caused the images to be often mixed up and not intelligently categorized. Today we are at your service with a program that is made to solve this problem. Picture Manager: Rename and Organize with EXIF is an application for complete management of images and editing of their metadata, for the Android operating system, developed by j to the 4n and published for free on Google Play. Using this program, you can extract EXIF Metadata information from images and use them for better management. For example, you can group pictures based on where or when they were taken. If you feel that some of this information is not entered correctly, you can easily edit this information for a photo or a group of photos with this program. It is possible to change the name or delete a part of the name of the images individually or in groups. This application is also able to automatically transfer your images to the SD card so that the phone’s internal memory is not overused and images are not synced with cloud storage.
Some features of Picture Manager: Rename and Organize with EXIF for Android:
Using EXIF Metadata information to organize and manage images
Renaming images based on metadata information such as where the images were taken, time, etc.
The ability to rename images individually or in groups
The possibility of removing part of the name of the images
The ability to automatically transfer images to the SD card
Finding similar and duplicate images using PHash and AverageHash algorithms
Ability to edit EXIF information
Featured by XDA-Developers: “Automatically rename and organize your photos with Picture Manager”
Picture Manager makes use of EXIF Metdata to rename and organize your pictures.
What Picture Manager can do for you:
Renaming:
Rename your pictures with different timestamp formats and other EXIF metadata like camera model, manufacturer and many more.
Additional options are:
- Replace text in filename
- Append or prepend text
- Add a counter to your filenames
- To Upper- or Lowercase
- Manually rename and delete (Premium)
Organizing:
Bring more organization into your picture collection by sorting your pictures into dated folders or even named by the location you’ve taken your pictures.
E.g. If you been on vacation and made a roundtrip, you don’t need to remember the city anymore you’ve taken the pictures. Picture Manager will do that job for you by sorting the pictures
into folders named by the location the pictures were taken.
The organizer also offers a feature to move your images to your external sdcard or even USB Storage.
In the premium version that can be done even automatically.
A useful use case is also to move Videos to another location to prevent Google or Amazon Photos to sync them to the cloud.
Clean up your images collection
Picture Manager offers a duplicate image finder to get rid of duplicate images and restore some space on your phone memory
Also there is an option to find similar images based on PHash and AverageHash algorithm.
EXIF Editor
Edit exif metadata directly in Picture Manager, either single images or in batch mode.
Use conditions to only edit EXIF attributes matching them.
Some special features:
- Set date on multiple images and increment the time with hour/minute/second
- Set the date and time delta on multiple images (to fix wrong timezone time for example)
Other gems:
Fix file modification date
When you copy files from an external medium it breaks your original file modification date and can mess up your timeline in your gallery, file explorers etc. Picture Manager can restore the timeline by restoring the file modification date with the capture date of the EXIF metadata. (Premium)
Parse dates from filenames
Images recived by Whatsapp or other messengers got their EXIF metadata stripped. Restore the date by using the date from the filename and save as it exif date attribute and modified date (Premium)
Optimize images to reduce file size by changing the dimensions and quality. That makes sense after backing up your original pictures in the cloud or external storage, but you want to keep the image on your phone but want to save some storage space.
Add GPS data from GPX file.
If your camera does not have a gps module you can record your gps coordinates with a 3rd party app into a gpx file. Picture Manager can then match timestamps from your images and the locations in the gpx file and write GPS data into your images.
Add missing EXIF thumbnails.
The thumbnail is used to display a preview images on your camera LCD screen or file explorers. It is saved into the EXIF metadata and helps cameras and file explores to show a preview of the image quickly because without it would require to read the whole image into memory beforehand
The premium version is an in app purchase and unlocks following features:
- Multiple presets
- Custom formats
- JobService to instantly rename and organize newly taken pictures
- Similar images finder
- Parse date from filenames and save as EXIF attribute
- Fix file modification date
- Add GPX data from .gpx file
- Tasker integration
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App Specs
- For ANDROID
- Update September 24, 2023
- Version 5.26.0
- Android 7.0
- Developers j to the 4n
- Category Photography
- View on Google Play