jAlbum Reviews

Pros

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

Cons

As a Linux user it has great support but I would like a ready built package for Arch/Manjaro like they have for Ubuntu, SUSE, Redhat etc.

Pros

Presentation on Web.. many options SPEED to put group of photos up with professional look.

Cons

Finding where options are: main Jalbum and then Skins

Pros

I used to enjoy the format and the ease of uploading photos that were viewable and shareable by teammates.

Cons

Service cons: jalbum used to work well. 4 years have passed though, and my renewal left me feeling cheape-d out on. The photo quality has dropped, the capacity is low, the app and interface have not improved, the site/app is slow and outdated. The technological advances possible have not been made here. Customer service cons: this is obviously not the most integral part of the app, but if you ever want to get money back or hash out complaints, it will be an uphill battle. Customer service was harsh and rude to me. I expressed me dismay at the new app, and one of the customer service reps verbally accosted me through repeated emails demanding that the status of his site was good. It’s not. Overall, that ended my relationship with jalbum and left a horrible taste in my mouth from a once great app.

Pros

I have been using jAlbum for over 10 years and found it useful and easy to use from the start. The various skins allow the creation of galleries from relatively simple to complex, including the use of a shopping cart with some. The interface is relatively intuitive and the gallery outcomes are pleasing and professional looking. The application is updated on timely basis and keeps pace with advances in technology.

Cons

The plethora of options available in Preferences for some of the more complex skins can be somewhat overwhelming for the first time user, but many can be left as default until the user becomes more familiar with how those options can be used to enhance the gallery.

Pros

The options for image handling and creating/modifying the structure of the albums are quite extensive and the entire look and feel of your project can be altered with a few simple mouse clicks. 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!

Cons

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.

Pros

It's an excellent asset management tool. It's great for demoing large quantities of images in a clean, succint manner.

Cons

Very limited as to what you can create. You're basically stuck with the same rehashed template. You have very little control over text integration and often you're often confined within the boundaries that the skin author created. I could go on and on. It's great for asset management but for creating a personal portfolio or anything else that steps outside the box the skin developer imagined, it's disappointing.

Pros

Back in the 90's I use to build and code my own websites. After years of code changes keeping up with all the new formats was overwhelming. I started using more robust and integrated templates then build upon them. The problem became re-educating myself with the new platform then keeping up with the new upgrades. Sometimes these platforms would fall out of favor and more robust platforms would arise that would better suit my needs. It always became very time consuming and frustrating. When I stumbled upon JAlbum it was like a small miracle had happened. This platform takes away all the heavy lifting and complicated learning curve of all the other platforms. When I tell people how easy it is to build a site on JAlbum they don't believe me because a lot of other platforms portray themselves as super easy to use to get users to commit but only JALBUM is the real deal.

Cons

Needs better social media integration and customization.

Pros

The skins have far more features and power than is obvious. While the sample skins are interesting, there is no tutorial on how to use the skins to their full potential.

Cons

Pricing model. You should offer a lifetime pricing option, and keep an archive of skins that work with all versions. The upgrades to newer versions most often do not justify the price of the upgrade, as the "new" features are incremental at best.

Pros

Ease to make a photo website, I have family photos

Cons

learning curve, not easy to use in headless mode when moving from windows to my unix nas

Pros

The multitude of free and pay for skins for your sites. Speed of album creation and easy updates.

Cons

While most features are intuitive, there is some mild knowledge of code needed to get full integration for social media or pos

Pros

I was able to quickly install and use jAlbum to generate content that I include in my corporate web site. It is full featured; however, I don't use all the features for my needs which are simple. The cost is commensurate with my needs and budget. 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.

Cons

Because of the abundance of skins, sometimes it takes a while to find one that best fits my needs on a particular album. But the search function by feature does help a lot.

Pros

Easy to install and has a very intuitive user interface. Short learning curve before delivering amazing results.

Cons

Would like to see an easier method for using new/different skins with existing image collections.

Alternatives Considered

Reasons for Switching to jAlbum

Pros

Easy to use and inexpensive. My favorite features are slideshow and tag cloud with metadata. No need to worry about getting hacked and updates are easy to implement. I like the folder structure and that I can update on a local copy in Windows Explorer folders.

Cons

It is difficult to find features on menus and to know which features are part of jAlbum and which go with the skin. I would like to have a better interface to index with Google and other search engines. As far as I can tell, my titles, descriptions and keywords are not getting indexed in Google.

Pros

The ability to customize a site to one's specific needs and tastes is the best feature. There are lots of skins (templates) to start with, and most of those skins allow you to tweak the settings to get the exact look you want. However, you don't have to do anything and the defaults will give you a great result. I'm quite happy with the results and I can't imagine not using this for my website.

Cons

There can be a LOT of features, depending upon the skin being used. There is a learning curve.

Pros

THis is absolutely one of the ESSENTIAL programs we use to produce albums of photos. It's so absolutely easy to use and I just have to put photos in a folder, click make album then click upload, and they're available on the web

Cons

I keep my photos locally, and thus am the only person who can manage the photo album online. I need to figure out how to allow other people to add photos... this may just be my lack of knowledge of the program though.

Pros

Ease of use, performance and flexibility

Cons

Don't have any least liked issues with jAlbum

Pros

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

Cons

I don't have any cons for jalbum - excellent product

Pros

If, like me, you want to control your online content then you do not want to use cloud services from big tech. I have my own website and jAlbum allows me to display my images exactly how I want and most importantly under my control.

Cons

There are a couple of features I would like to add - some of the templates need to be worked around to get exactly what I want, an itegrated html editor would help too.

Pros

I have been a JAlbum user for many years. One of the great features I like is the hybrid approach of keeping my photo files locally AND keeping the album in their cloud. The interface is cosmetically flexible and pleasing to just about anybody's tastes.The system works well for sharing photos with others using a simple link and the mobile interface works well.I have also been very satisfied with their customer support when I open a ticket for an answer that I cannot find in the help. Quick knowledgeable answers have been the standard for my questions.

Cons

In generally I have no serious complaints about JAlbum. My only minor frustration is an occasional issue finding an answer in their help system. Most questions are covered by their Help system but sometimes an odd question requires their Customer Service to respond.

Pros

Relatively easy to update my galleries and regenerate the album

Cons

I also use Photoprism to perform AI-based facial recognition and categorization of these photos. Photoprism also includes a search feature, which allows me to seach by a person's name, a location, a description, etc. Would love an AI-based photo identification and search function, but I suspect that this would be a huge undertaking.

Pros

This is an easy-to-use program that allows me to generate picture albums of various groups of members and/or staff for personal use, all of equal size. It is used to quickly put names and faces together, to which I can then add other information as desired.

Cons

It would be nice to be able to remove some background data in pictures.

Pros

Easy to use without reading directions. Was able to upload all my personal pictures to multiple albums on my web srver with relative ease.

Cons

The software tends to "forget" where it left off, causing it to require new file creation upon reboot and relaunch. This isn't a big deal for my purposes as I create individual albums and uploade to my server, writing my own html.

Pros

I have been posting digital photos online since I purchased my first digital camera in 1996. I have gone through MANY online web gallery solutions over the years, as my collection grew too large for them to support. My galleries have broken Windows and Mac programs equally, forcing me to continue to look for another solution.Then I found JAlbum.JAlbum has continued to handle anything I have thrown at it — and that is organized galleries of over 100,000 photos with thousands of folders.

Cons

There is a learning curve to making new skins. I’d really like to see a more modular way, where a user could select things they want and have one created.

Pros

Flexibility in designs, multi-platform and quick and easy use

Cons

Options for more modular designs and more flexible means to integrate into other websites

Pros

I have used JAlbum before and then we took a break before starting to use it again. I have used Album quite a lot for personal use but we want to bring the application into our training programme. We haven't quite worked out how we will do that yet but we are working towards integrating Album into our workflows.

Cons

Generally happy with the product. We are not using all the facilities yet but we're getting there and want to use Album as an image resource for our training website.