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Description Sony Album
Your photo gallery is probably holding you back.
Most default gallery apps are either too simple to manage a growing library or too complex to navigate quickly. Sony Album solves this specific problem: it offers a fast, organized, and visually clean way to browse, sort, and manage your photos and videos without the bloat of cloud-first competitors. Built by Sony Mobile Communications, this app focuses on local media management with a priority on speed and logical folder hierarchy.
Core functionality and tools
Sony Album is designed around a straightforward principle: display your media exactly as it exists on your device’s storage. The app reads your internal memory and SD card, then presents a unified view of all photos and videos. You can navigate by date, album, or folder structure. The interface uses a card-based grid that loads thumbnails progressively—meaning you see a low-resolution preview immediately, which sharpens as you scroll. This prevents the lag common in apps trying to load full-resolution files all at once.
The app includes a built-in video player that supports common codecs like H.264 and MPEG-4. It also offers basic editing tools: crop, rotate, red-eye reduction, and auto-adjust color balance. These edits are non-destructive—the original file remains untouched, and a copy is saved separately. For users who need precise metadata, Sony Album surfaces EXIF data including GPS coordinates, camera model, aperture, ISO, and shutter speed. You can also sort by location using the integrated map view, which pins photos based on embedded geo-tags.
Key advantages
- Local-first architecture: no mandatory cloud sync or background data uploads.
- Fast thumbnail loading with progressive resolution scaling.
- Non-destructive editing preserves original files.
- Integrated map view for geotagged photo discovery.
- Supports external SD card storage without performance degradation.
- EXIF metadata viewer for camera settings and file details.
- Video player with playback controls and timeline scrubbing.
- Album creation and manual sorting for custom organization.
- Slideshow mode with configurable transition speed and effects.
- Simple gesture-based navigation: pinch to zoom, swipe to delete.
Consider downloading Sony Album if you need a reliable, local-only gallery tool
You might enjoy Sony Album if you prefer keeping your media on your device without forced cloud integration. It works well for users who take many photos with a dedicated camera or smartphone and want a clean, fast gallery that respects folder structures. The app is especially useful for photographers who need quick access to EXIF data without opening a separate editing suite.
Heads up: you’ll need an active internet connection for the map view to download tiles. Some advanced editing features (like red-eye reduction) require Android 5.0 or higher. The app is free with no ads, but Sony does not guarantee compatibility with every custom Android ROM or heavily skinned device interface.
Information
- Version
- 9.9.A.0.20
- Developer
- Sony Mobile Communications
- Requirements
- Android + 4.4
- Updated
- 17.03.2026
- Size
- 20.01 MB
- Package
- com.sonyericsson.album
- Signature
- 9e5b0111e0408bb405c819ea0784b69d
- Architecture
- armeabi-v7a, arm64-v8a
