Picular

Upload, organize and enjoy your digital photos

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Upload, organize and enjoy your digital photos

3 followers

Since the dawn of the digital age, we've been in search of a service to help us clean and organize our photo collections. Without the possibility to quickly find the photos we're looking for, we rarely enjoy our evergrowing pile of memories.

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Picular

Your photos organized by AI and a gamified experience 🕹

Picular is a photo tool for anyone who urges to bring order to their photo collection and find photos by combining metadata filters rather than static albums.

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Launch tags:

Productivity•Photography•Artificial Intelligence

Launch Team

Kristofer Guldvarg

Picular

Maker

The service is currently available for iPhones, but we aim to support all major devices and platforms. Extra curious to get feedback from people not satisfied with their current photo situation. What should be our next significant feature to add?

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3yr ago

Adam Carballo

@guldvarg I'm confused, I can find any information about how does the service work. It seems like photos are indeed stored in a 3rd party server (not just pulled from the device's storage every time), but there is no mention on storage limits, backups or quality degradation. Are images uploaded and stored in a server? If so, what's the storage limit, quality limit, RAW support?

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3yr ago

Kristofer Guldvarg

Picular

Maker

@engyne Thanks for your question, Adam! The last year we've pivoted from having Picular as a web service into this app, and in this transition, we haven't yet spent any time on the information area you mention. However, you can find two tiny links to our terms and privacy pages in the bottom of the account creation page in the app. With this said, these are the straight-up answers to your questions: Cloud storage Yes, photos are stored in the cloud just as it is for Apple or Google and many others. However, I understand it as you got the impression this was not the case, so I'm curious if so, what might have misled you? We want to stay transparent about our service. We know this is not an option for some users, and that is simply something we need to accept. The benefits of having it in the cloud as we see it is: * Access your photos from anywhere and all your devices. * Share collection with other family members or friends. * Use backend processing power to speed up AI processes etc. * Let the user not have to worry about local device storage limits. * Secure photos from not being lost forever if you for any reason would lose your devices. * It enables us to run backups. Storage limits We have set no limits as of today. Whenever we add support for RAW, we might have to add some mechanism for super heavy users to pay extra for unusual heavy load. But we will do our best to find cold storage solutions that will cover the 'unlimited' claim as far as we can push it. Also, we will need more users and behavior data to know where to draw this line. The most extensive collections in Picular reach above 100k photos today, which is okay and far above the average. Backups We do get backups by automation in the cloud today. However, our ambition is to improve this process by backing up to a 4rth party to secure the system from human mistakes and if one system encounters a significant accident. RAW support Not now, but we aim to add support for RAW later on. Quality degradation We store all photos as non-destructive. In other words, if you do any edits (upcoming feature), you will always be able to revert to your original. I hope this clarifies your concerns, and thanks again for reaching out. Have a great weekend 🍺, Kristofer

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3yr ago

Adam Carballo

@guldvarg thanks for the lengthy reply 🙂 I think my confusion comes from the fact that I'm used to seeing pricing ranges with storage space when talking about "cloud storage", but I see that Picular is trying to not display itself as a cloud service first, but rather an organization tool that works with an integrated cloud service, aka you "pay" for the organization service, not necessarily the cloud storage. I'm always careful with services that advertise unlimited storage / lifetime storage, as that is impossible financially, so it's good to see you are aware of it and have plans to limit big spenders when/if necessary. I'll give the service a try, I've been looking for something since Google Photos changed their policy. 🍻

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3yr ago

Kristofer Guldvarg

Picular

Maker

@engyne I understand what you're saying, and I think we might reconsider since you raise a valid concern. Setting a clear storage limit might be a better option since we want to give a transparent and trustworthy impression. Thanks a lot for your feedback, and I hope to see you around.

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3yr ago

Kristofer Guldvarg

Picular

Maker

@engyne Hi, again Adam! I just wanted to let you know that since we spoke last time, we've been working hard to address some of the concerns you raised, and we just released these tweaks and additions: * A new FAQ section on picular.com, where we've started by having your questions answered. * Information around our cloud solution right in the app next to the upload function so that users can feel informed before taking any action. * Changed our 'unlimited' storage to a somewhat fixed value (1 TB), trying to be as transparent as possible. Thanks again for your excellent feedback. Hope to see you around.

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3yr ago

Laurence Garnett

The guys at Picular are super helpful. Not often that the developers answer every question, research every glitch, and give a straight up and honest answer. I've been using Picular and it is one of the few apps I have felt worth spending cash on. And I even renewed the subscription this year - not just paying once.

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3yr ago

Kristofer Guldvarg

Picular

Maker

@laurence_garnett Wow, thanks a billion for these kind words and your support! Where can we find more lovely customers like yourself? 😊❤️

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3yr ago

Joost van der Steen

Hi, app looks great and I’m really looking for an app like this but I really miss essential information explaining me what happens with my pictures. I downloaded the app and before I realised my pictures where uploading to who knows where. And I wasn’t able to stop it. I changed the permissions in my iPhones settings to get it to stop. But now there seems to be now way to delete them from the library (and your server). I looked on the website to get a better view on what this app is and how secure my pictures are saved but couldn’t find any information. I’m sure my pictures are safe and I truly trust you guys but I really advice to inform users better. Let them know what happens when they allow access to there photos and make sure they are able to undo it. And let them (me) know they are safe.

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3yr ago

Fille Åström

Picular

Maker

@joostsvds Hi Joost, and thanks for trying out our app! We hear you and are working on ways to make this clearer. Both on the landing page and in the app. We are truly thankful to get feedback like this so we can improve. Would it be ok for us to contact you when we have updated this to get some further feedback if we managed to make it clear what is going on with the photos that are uploaded ?

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3yr ago

Joost van der Steen

No problem please let me know if you want me to have a look and give feedback.

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3yr ago

Kristofer Guldvarg

Picular

Maker

@joostsvds Hi, Joost! We've just released some tweaks and additions due to the great feedback you gave us: * A new FAQ section on picular.com, with your questions, answered, among others. * There is now information around our cloud solution in the app next to the upload function. * Lastly, it's now possible to delete your account from within the app. Hopefully, earning us a bit of trust and making it less scary to try us out. Thanks again for your valuable feedback. Have a lovely evening! 🍺

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Launched on January 14th, 2022

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