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Gallery Go has been experiencing a recent surge in popularity
Installations doubled from 50 to 100 million in under five months
Google Photos is one of the most popular gallery apps on Android. However, it's a relatively heavy one that sometimes requires a high amount of resources to run efficiently. To solve this issue, Google introduced Gallery Go for less powerful Android devices. The app is becoming increasingly popular, as it just passed 100 million installs on the Play Store, less than five months after reaching 50 million downloads.
Google's lightweight Gallery Go hits 50 million Play Store installs
A great alternative to the bloated Photos app
With Google Photos getting as feature-laden as it is, it only makes sense that people would turn to a less storage-intensive alternative. Google introduced Gallery Go for its less powerful Android Go phones about a year and a half ago, and it's already reached 50 million Play Store installations in that time.
The tech sector loves to talk about how the next billion smartphone users will come online. Google has backed one option, the feature phone-based KaiOS, as well as putting work into a modified version of its platform, Android Go edition. The company has been able to claim success with Go as over 80% of entry-level Android phone purchases in the last 18 months. Now, Google has given Android 10 its own Go edition, hoping to capitalize on recent performance improvements, feature additions, and size savings to its apps.
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- Google's latest Gallery Go update adds the ability to manually toggle the app's dark mode between on and automatic:
Google Photos is a fantastic app, but storing and accessing to all your images from the cloud can be a strain on your smartphone's bandwidth and storage, especially if it's a budget Android device. Last month, Google launched Gallery Go (along the lines of Maps Go and Google Go), a lightweight picture manager targetted at the hundreds of millions of budget devices being used in developing countries. Today, the app got an update that adds dark mode — something other apps like Messenger and Google Photos already have.
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Adding to its lineup of lighter apps for low-cost phones, Google has introduced Gallery Go — a photo organization app intended for offline use while taking up as little space as possible. Even so, it features some of the same machine learning capabilities and editing tools as its more advanced sibling, Google Photos.