Gallery

Every phone already has a gallery, so a replacement has to earn its icon. This one — simply called Gallery — makes its pitch on tidiness and speed: your photos and videos organized into albums, recent shots, screenshots and camera images, all browsable with the smooth zoom-and-swipe navigation you'd expect.

Viewing covers the basics properly: images in high quality, videos played right from the gallery with support for common formats and simple playback controls. Organization is the other half: mark favorites for quick access, create and manage albums so family photos stop living in the same scroll as screenshots of receipts.

The built-in editor is deliberately everyday rather than artistic: crop, rotate, resize, color filters and appearance adjustments, then save the edited photo — the five fixes that account for nearly every edit real people make. It's the difference between 'good enough to send' and opening a second app. No layers, no learning curve.

One extra feature gives it personality: a Status Saver that saves supported status media to your device, reachable later from the gallery — use it thoughtfully. The app is well liked for what it is (4.4 from 100K+ downloads): a clean, fast, modern home for a photo library that doesn't ask you to move house to a cloud first.