Curator · Stillcraft

What's inside

Everything Curator does.

A crate a month

The gallery comes as crates of arrivals, one per month, each showing how much is left. Special crates cut across the months: screenshots, videos (heaviest first), pictures from chats, everything over 20 MB.

The expert goes first

Blurred shots, pocket shots in the dark, screenshots and exact duplicates are put aside before you start, right on the phone. Confirm with one button, or tap one to keep it.

Series as one card

Five near-identical shots taken within a minute come as one card. Pick the original; the copies go into the act.

One gesture per photo

Up writes it off, right keeps it, down puts it into an album, left puts it aside, a long press makes it an exhibit. Undo takes the last card back.

The act of write-off

Nothing is deleted on a swipe. Written-off photos wait in the act, to look at again or keep after all. One signature, one question from Android for the whole act.

Albums for real

Halls are your albums. Move one into its own folder and every gallery app on the phone shows it as an album.

The museum grows

Freed space opens the wing, the gallery, the rotunda, the observatory and the sculpture garden, each with a ribbon to cut. Ranks for the photos you've sorted, from attendant to museum director.

The exhibition of the week

This week's exhibits hang on a poster under their own title, to rename and send. A photo taken on this very day in an earlier year comes out of the storeroom now and then.

Screens

Captured in Curator.

Curator: The museum — **The museum**Built from freed space.

Curator: A card — **A card**One gesture per photo.

Curator: The expert — **The expert**Rejects put aside first.

Curator: Training crate — **Training crate**Every gesture, tried once.

Curator: The act — **The act**Nothing goes unsigned.

Curator: Halls — **Halls**Albums and the week's show.

Curator: A new wing — **A new wing**Cut the ribbon.

Curator: The chronicle — **The chronicle**Everything the museum lived through.

What a gesture does

Gesture	Means	What happens
↑ up	write off	the photo waits in the act until you sign
→ right	keep	it stays in the gallery as it was
↓ down	into an album	kept and hung in one of your halls
← left	later	comes back at the end of the crate
hold	exhibit	the main hall and the exhibition of the week

Get it

Get Curator.

Install

Version: v1.0.2
File: Curator.apk, 5.2 MB
Requires: Android 11 (API 30) or newer: that is where one system question can delete or move a whole batch.
Permissions: Photos and videos, to look at them on the phone; notifications, for an optional morning note. No internet permission at all, no account, no ads, no analytics.
License: MIT · fonts: Cormorant Garamond, Inter, PT Sans Narrow · training photos: Unsplash

Download the APK on your phone.
Open it and allow installs from this source when Android asks.
Go through the training crate, allow access to the gallery and open the first crate.

Photos never leave the phone: the app can't reach the internet at all.

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Build from source

JDK 17+ (Android Studio's bundled JBR works) and the Android SDK. Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room, DataStore, WorkManager; the facade and the demo gallery are drawn in code.

git clone https://github.com/bigdevwhale/curator.git
cd curator
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest assembleDebug
./gradlew assembleDebug -Pdemo              # app.curator.demo: a made-up gallery, nothing real is read
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest -Prender --tests '*RenderScreens*'   # every screen to PNG, EN, RU and dark

Good to know

Questions people ask.

Can I delete something by accident?

No. A swipe only puts a photo into the act. It is deleted when you sign the act and confirm Android's question, and until then you can take anything back.

How does the expert know a photo is blurred?

It looks at a small grey copy right on the phone: how sharp the edges are, how bright the frame is, and a fingerprint that tells near-identical shots apart. It only suggests; you decide.

What happens to my albums?

Halls live inside the app until you move one into a folder. Then its photos go to Pictures/, and the phone's own gallery shows it as an album.