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The jAlbum desktop software creates web photo galleries for any web site. Perfect for photographers, individuals and organizations wanting to share images and videos on their own sites without relying on centralized services.
jAlbum has been in business since 2006 and is a trusted solution for independent photo sharing. To date, jAlbum galleries are used on over 220 million web sites (Data from Majestic.com). jAlbum has received top user reviews with SiteJabber, TrustPilot and Capterra
Why use jAlbum?
Integrity: YOU have full control of the management, storage, and presentation of your images no lock-in. Host your images with us or with any web hotel you like. Your galleries will work - even without us.
Convenience: Manage large amounts of images right from your PC
Expression: Not all web sites look alike, so why should your galleries? With jAlbum, you can customize the visuals and functionality of your galleries to your liking.
jAlbum is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
jAlbum Reviews Summary
jAlbum has a rating of 4.6 stars from 156 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with jAlbum most frequently mention many years and photo albums. jAlbum ranks 2nd among Photo Sharing sites.
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The app has become very sluggish and timed out often
I have the latest version
Dear Ernest,
Sorry to hear you have problems with our app. Please contact us at support@jalbum.net so we can work out a solution. We need to know at what point in time/usage it becomes sluggish for starters. Ideally, if you can provide a screen recording, please pass that on to us.
I would like a way to develop projects on your cloud server and then an app like way to "relocate" the project to my own drives and have it automatically reset all drive / file locations within the projects menus to the new "to" location.
I've used album for almost 20 years, just doing simple stuff, usually with the same skin, sometimes adding comments for each or most pictures which can make the album into a story. It's easy to use and publish each album, it works equally well with Linux or Windows. I do wonder... for someday when I want to stop paying for the storage+server and the HTML/whatever that is published... wonder if I can export each album back to my own systems. I would not expect that, but it does sound like it would be easy (but not beneficial to the jalbum team!) to implement. For all I know, such an export/copy already exists. I upgraded my storage amount once and expect that will hold me for many years to come...thanks! Meanwhile google photos keeps trying to improve and compete, but I don't expect the same thing from google.
Thanks for your review! JAlbum never locks you in. You can download full galleries back to your computer. Just connect to your account, the right-click a gallery and select "Download". To later on upload that gallery to another computer, connect to the new account and drag and drop the downloaded gallery folder onto the desired destination.
So simple to use and updates make it work even better
Indeed:-) Thank you for your words!
I am just getting started with the software and feel like I've only learned.01 percent of its capabilities and already accomplished 90% of what I needed to do with making a responsive website display of 1700+ pictures collected over almost 20 years.
Tech support has been surprisingly very quick and helpful.
We're so glad you're getting along fine with jAlbum Jeff!
I created an album of my Astro images. The problem is I do not know how to access the album for including in an html file. Is there a single file I can access?
Larry Simpson
Hi Larry. You have full access to all files jAlbum produces (Tools->Open directories->Output directory). We'd love to help you if you contact our support at support@jalbum.net or via our user forum at https://jalbum.net/forum. Simply giving us a 1-star rating won't help you and hurts our business.
Only program I use to make my website photos. I create them and review them then upload to my website.
Happy to hear that Michael! Thanks for your review!
If anything, there may be TOO much flexibility! I had to spend some time going through all the album/skin settings, reviewing the help documentation, to begin to understand all the features.
We're glad you made it through:-) Thanks Jefferey!
PS. Do use the search bar in order to find the setting you need. Just type what you're looking for.
While slide maps displayed fine, the folder map did not. The issue was tracked down to a Mac file being "ingested" by jAlbum and gumming up the works. (technical terms). Kudos to Laza.
Good that we could sort it out. Thanks for your review Tony!
I purchased jAlbum years ago and put pictures on your on-line server. It constantly rejected my renewal for two weeks or more. You were unable to resolve the problem until recently but I wasn't notified it was resolved. I tried again and my credit card was accepted.
Sorry to hear about that experience. Were you in contact directly with us (support@jalbum.net) or our payment partner Fastspring?
I started to use jAlbum a year ago for something slightly different from an Image Gallery: cataloging and compiling information about pieces of hardware in a collection. It takes a while to get behind the features and possibilities, but after that time it is almost 'addictive' to use, optimizing layouts and contend is fast because you can test-drive without uploading. Managing a large amount of album projects is easy with the grouping feature. There are some idiosyncrasies due to differences between how jAlbum treats files/folders compared to windows, but one can always ask support and an answer comes back in short time. The option to write 'external tools' is very powerful and the folks at jAlbum helped me with importing device specific information from IPTC tags. If you have access to someone with programming skills, possibilities are endless...
It is easy to get started and make a great web site and easy to get addicted to improve on it based on jAlbum's wide selection of features.
Thank you for taking the time to elaborate on what you like about jAlbum Wolf, really appreciated!
/David, jAlbum founder
My needs are rather simple. I'm well pleased with jAlbum and happy with my outcomes!
Happy to hearing this. Thank you Ronald!
JAlbum is the very best web photo display application we have found. It's easy to use and very flexible with many templates, or skins as they are called for different formats.
Many thanks for your review Larry!
I've been using jAlbum for years to create photo albums of various sorts. Many are simply of the family type and chronicle events of the year including travel, holidays as well as other things of note. I have also used jAlbum as a tool on professional and business websites to add photo documentation to various projects.
After a little practice jalbum is easy to use. Has the best features.
But that nothing compared to their personal service.
Blushing here:-). Thank you Paul!
I've been using jAlbum for a couple of decades now, and it keeps getting easier to work with and more capable. Highly recommended.
The jAlbum software is one of the best, if not the best apps for photographers to display their photos on the internet. The personal touch & tech support is incredibly superb.
Blushing here:-) Thank you for your kind words GW!
I like the feature set and usually the album I end up with. But every time I start a new album I spend way way too much time trying to get the settings correct. I can't seem to figure out how to say "Make it like that previous album." And there are the updates that change everything, and there are a bazillion setting to dig through. It is very frustrating.
See File->Import->"Settings from published album" or File->"Import settings from project". You can also use File->"Save as default" to automatically get your desired defaults applied for future projects. You can even use defaults on a skin-by-skin basis using File->"Save as skin default".
To easily find your way through the many settings, use jAlbum's search bar (CTRL+SPACE). It takes you straight to the desired setting.
I hope this info removes your frustration and adds some stars to your review:-)
/David, jAlbum founder
Happy to hear that and to having you around for such long time Roy. Thanks for your review!
Very nice product with a rather steep learning curve. One tends to forget some of the steps if not used often. It would help if there were an easier way to add a new folder and photos to an existing album.
Thanks for your feedback. How about dragging and dropping the new folder onto an open project? (CTRL+C and CTRL+V also works)
I've been using jAlbum for years. It is truly a premium product. I'd recommend this software for anyone who wants to display their images in an elegant interface. There are many styles and skins to choose from; most of which can be customized unto themself. The sky is pretty much the limit.
Indeed:-) Thank you Don!
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Happy to hear you're satisfied with us and that we could assist Scott!