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jAlbum is a photography studio software that helps users create web photo galleries for any website. It allows photographers, individuals, and organizations to share images and videos on their websites. It supports independent photo sharing and supports Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems.

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Digital Asset Manager

Makes creating and organizing my digital assets straight forward. Ability to easily share is outstanding.

Business owner

It is easy to use, the results are very good and it enables me to share photographs online with ease. Great for sales and marketing.

Owner

It perfectly fits my needs, both technically and budget-wise. I especially like the abundance of skins where I can always find one that works for me. I especially like their "responsive" skins.

Partner

This is a wonderful product that, together with some amazing skins, makes it very easy to market and sell production photographs from our stage shows.

Retired 

I love the ease of use, the wide selection of skins which have multiple configuration settings, and great functional albums produce get websites.

Illustrator

It allows other designers to grab the assets they need in a straightforward, visual manner. Clients can also easily decide which assets they want and which assets they don't without fuss.

I love the ability to make professional quality album without having to use the GUI and have album updates automated.

Very limited as to what you can create. You're basically stuck with the same rehashed template.

Chief Cook and Bottle Washer

Embedded image manipulation controls are a nice feature and the smart build/upload is a huge time saver. The Developer and Community support has been top notch as well.

Shopping cart, adjusts to different size screens, I.e. mobile, tablet, computer, different skins to pick from, forum for help is awesome.

Web Master

The feature that I like the most is the ability to includevideos as well as photos. Now I don't need two separate albums (one for photos and one forvideos) on my "galleries" page.

retired

The customer service was excellent, I had a need for a macro to extract metadata from images and the team wrote one for me.

Easy to use and inexpensive. My favorite features are slideshow and tag cloud with metadata.

It is difficult to find features on menus and to know which features are part of jAlbum and which go with the skin.

In generally I have no serious complaints about JAlbum. My only minor frustration is an occasional issue finding an answer in their help system.

Integration with my website was extremely easy and the output of the product enhances the website.

The learning curve was a bit steep initially, but there are a lot of features and terms *I* wasn't necessarily familiar with so it was a bit of a struggle to figure things out.

Having used JAlbum for several years it has "just worked" most of the time. On a couple of occasions I've had to contact support and the response has been rapid and resolved the problem.

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Having used JAlbum for several years it has "just worked" most of the time. On a couple of occasions I've had to contact support and the response has been rapid and resolved the problem. Great Support.

Perfect fit for the job

Thanks for your kind review Andy, also for pointing out a room for improvement: -a package for Arch/Manjaro

I have used Jalbum for over 10 years with excellent results. The oldest albums still present well on web.

Jalbum makes showing prhotographic work very fast with excellent results

Thanks for your review Terry! May we suggest that you try CTRL+Space within jAlbum. Then you can type whatever feature you're looking for and jAlbum will guide you to it, no matter if it's a jAlbum or skin feature.

I used to enjoy jalbum. I used it for school and for work for four years. When I left my school, I stopped using the site. I’d had tens of albums of old photos, all formatted and edited and whatnot using their resources. I came back in 2022 out of curiosity and a desire to edit and organize many of my photos. Upon logging in, I was hit with nostalgia: none of the site had changed. After an attempt to navigate the site, I realize that was not a good thing. It was slow, pixelated, hard to navigate, and very dated looking. There weren’t any features not provided by free internet apps, such as superimpose (great app). There weren’t any features that were modern, innovative or ground breaking. Sometimes, rather than tweak an old, dated interface it’s better to make sweeping and elegant changes. 4 years later and nothing has been updated besides maybe a font size and a few features. (I’ve been prompted about six times to write this review. I ignored it and again, but hopefully this will get you to stop requesting reviews.) 

Used for 4 years (2014-18), returned 2022 and the quality sank massively 

We're sorry that you're so dissatisfied with jAlbum Kenza. Your criticism seems to be directed to our lite "Online jAlbum" product and not to our desktop product, which is where we've put the vast majority of our development focus. Do try out our desktop product instead! 

I have been using jAlbum to create my web galleries for more than 10 years and have been satisfied with it since I began using it.  I have seen galleries created by other photographers believe there is no reason to consider moving to another piece of software.  jAlbum does what I want it to do and does it well.

Excellent web gallery software

Thanks for your elaborate and balanced review of jAlbum Paul! We agree that some skins have so many settings that it can be daunting or hard to navigate. Luckily the defaults works for most people, and should you need to look for a certain setting, then you can search for it within jAlbum using jAlbum's Search Bar. It will guide you to the right setting in a snap.

I maintain a photo blog of my work and personal projects to share with potential clients and family/friends.  The old software I was using made updates very time consuming and required a full upload of all the content with each update, not to mention the time to rebuild the entire album every time.  jAlbum makes creation and updates so easy, I'm updating my albums almost nightly.  Add the new photos, caption them, click the Build And Upload button and it's done.  What used to take me hours, now takes just a few minutes.

A *LOT* of bang for the buck.

Wow! Many thanks for taking the time to write this elaborate review of jAlbum Kevin!

I have an active license because of how good it is for asset management, especially if you're creating content for a team of designers and developers and you also need to present your assets to the client. It allows other designers to grab the assets they need in a straightforward, visual manner. Clients can also easily decide which assets they want and which assets they don't without fuss. 

Quick and easy way to organize your assets.

Thanks for taking the time writing this review Newel. As you point out areas you're disappointed with, please write us at support@jalbum.net and outline in more detail what you're missing. From our perspective, it sounds like you simply should switch to another of the many skins we provide, but I may be missing something here. One of the strengths with jAlbum's skins is that they not only control the visual appearance, but can also add new functionality. For inspiration, check out https://jalbum.net/skins and tick the "feature boxes" you're looking for.

Amazing All in One Website

Well spoken! :-) Thank you so much for your kind review Tracy!

UI Needs Work

Thanks for your feedback Dale. We do archive older skins, but they tend to not play well with mobile devices and modern web standards, so we discourage the use of them.
Although appealing to the end user, it's hard to offer a lifetime license, including lifetime updates. Along that road, it will eventually be an unbalanced offer. We instead offer lifetime licenses including 12 months of free updates. 

Excellent experience.  Makes creating and organizing my digital assets straight forward.  Ability to easily share is outstanding.

Digital creator and organizer master tool

Thanks for your review Steve! Please write us at support@jalbum.net and describe the challenges you're having when switching skin. As far as we know, you just select another skin from the skin selector and hit the "Make album" button again.

Allows me to prepare custom online albums for my clients to view and share their photos.  The integration with pos and other features allows the flexibility to create different sites for clients needs

Best software for showcasing your content and captivating your audience. 

Thank you for taking the time writing this review Tyronne. We're happy and proud that you're so pleased with jAlbum!

Home user

Thanks for your review and for pointing out something we can improve. If you have more details on the problem, please write us at support@jalbum.net

I am not using jAlbum in a business environment. My main uses is developing, maintaining a family website allowing family members and friends all over the globe with easy acces all family activities.

My review

Thank you for writing this review Gerard. We also appreciate that you described how you use jAlbum.

I mainly use jAlbum to organize an album of pictures on a particular topic to generate an album to include on my website. I do have some plans to use it more and in a bigger way. But I need some time to work on it.

jAlbum Use On My Company Website

Thank you for your valuable review Dennis! We're also especially happy that you've explained some aspects of jAlbum that you like.

I love using this program.  I have my own art site where I post paintings and pictures.  I update it frequently when new works are completed.  Once the site is defined, updating is simple.  I can add the items and have it all uploaded in a matter of minutes.  I am also happy I can use my own domains and not rely upon their service to host my site.  Not that there's a problem with that (some people do use that feature) but I prefer managing my own sites.  

Great software for web albums

Thank you for your review Jeffrey and for telling what aspects of jAlbum you value: ability to customize appearance, integrity and ease of managing large image volumes

It's one of the programs which are a MUST HAVE in my opinion.  Easy to use, not too expensive, and great features.  

Absolutely essential for photo sharing

Thanks for your positive review Dan. To allow others to contribute with images to galleries, right-click the current project and select "Collaborative albums->Connect inbox", then you can use "Collaborative albums->Email Invite" to invite people to email images straight into the album

I'm archiving 1,000 historical photos.  jAlbum made it easy to do, easy to organize, easy to update and the metadata and tag cloud options are a great asset for this type of work.

Great photo album software

Thanks for your valuable and elaborate review on jAlbum Richard! As for the indexing problem, please write us at support@jalbum.net and pass a link to the relevant album. We promise to look into it and see what can be done about the indexing.

As for finding features: Have you tried the magnifying glass button in the top-right corner of jAlbum? Just click it (or hit CTRL+Space) and type what you're looking for. jAlbum will then guide you to the relevant setting, no matter if it's a jAlbum setting or skin setting.

Simple use to use and maintain

Thanks for your review Chris, especially for exemplifying an aspect of jAlbum that isn't mentioned that often - automation with jAlbum. 

In general an excellent product, solid and reliable.  Not hard to understand and has plenty of flexibility.  The customer service was excellent, I had a need for a macro to extract metadata from images and the team wrote one for me!

Does the job

Thanks Frederick! We hope more and more users see the need for independent photo sharing solutions like jAlbum. Putting all eggs in the baskets of a few software giants isn't clever, and you realize that.

I examined several other on-line cloud based album systems and JAlbum met my expectations better than everything else I looked at.

Flexible, Easy, and Feature Rich

Thank you for your insightful and elaborate review Mark!

Jalbum has enabled me to generate my family photo album of roughly 40,000 photos

Jalbum works great for generating a static album from my existing folder structure

Thanks for your review Kevin! Yes, it's a huge undertaking to AI power jAlbum, but we clearly see the benefit

My needs are quite simple and for personal use to make picture albums by year for my use. This program, jAlbum, allows me to do this economically and easily. I've used it for several years and am well pleased with the results. I do not post these pictures publicly. They are for my uses only.

Personal Use of jAlbum

Thanks Ronald for writing this. Do let us know now about your request to remove background data by writing to support@jalbum.net. If you're referring to removing faces and such, then we have a new handy "pixelate region" tool.

A good alternative with a lot more options than the old iPhoto. jAlbum allows a lot more creativity and design.

Great software for the price.

Thanks for your review. Do write us at support@jalbum.net explaining how to reproduce the problem you pointed out. We're eager to fix it, but don't know how to reproduce it.

I use it on two of my websites, with probably close to a quarter of a million photos split up across a dozen main galleries.

Best I’ve used since 1996.

We're so pleased to read this. Thank you for taking your time writing this review Allen. We especially appreciate you letting people know just why you prefer jAlbum over the competition.

I've been using jAlbum for a long long time.  Serves all my needs well. There are a couple of quirks but that's okay.

Great Bang for Buck

Thanks John! We're really pleased hearing that you also feel we have a fair license model. (That was the intention)

If one is willing to accept user interface break between albums and remainder of the website it does a a acceptable job, if one is willing to spend a lot of time learning jAlbum, to modify a skin.

Very Capable Hack//You asked me to review

Thank you for your review Jerrold. If you bump into difficulties tweaking jAlbum skins, do ask for help by posting to our user forum at https://jalbum.net/forum or email us at support@jalbum.net

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