Scalado release their first Play Store app, Scalado Album

The name Scalado may or may not ring a bell to some of you guys. They are essentially an image software company that has their hands in a wide variety of smartphones that you don’t even know about. They recently made headlines with the Scalado Remove software that we covered a few times and even made it to main stream media. It allowed you to take multiple photos and clear out background images and create a single still. It was really amazing and software. Sadly, Scalado didn’t or doesn’t have plans to make that sort of application a standalone app for all to purchase. They did however just release their first app to the Play Store today to test the waters for potential future applications.

The application is called Scalado Album. It is basically a gallery for viewing all the photos in your device, but offers much more than your standard Android Gallery does. For one, after you load it the first time, it is the fastest gallery application we have used. The app even supports photos of +200 megabytes in size. For those of you that might wonder what kind of image size that would be, well 16420×10964 fits the bill well at 180 megabytes.

The app offers your standard features link instant pan and zoom abilities right along side sharing. Where it stands out a bit more is how you can access and locate the photos you wasn’t to find with out sifting through hundreds of them to do it. When you launch the app initially you are presented with a ‘Album’ layout. You can see all your photos, Nearby, Months, places and folders. Choose what you are after and a sliding animation will take you to those specific photos. This is particularly helpful for time and date stamps and if you attach GPS to your photos for reference.

  Another superb feature and addition that I have never seen in a gallery app before is how videos are displayed. When you are in your photo layout and see all the small thumbnails of your pictures and videos, your videos are slightly animated. Playing and repeating the first few seconds of your video without having to open it up. Additionally there is also a map view. This allows you to open up a map ad see where you were when you took certain photos.

There is a downside that many are already talking about. There is no options to block certain folders from appearing in your gallery or the ability to select the folders you want included. You Picasa photos aren’t available to be displayed and it seems that some are talking about Google+ photos are an issue too. I personally don’t use Picasa and don’t really care about the folder options myself, but if you have a large collection of icons, movies or TV episodes it could be an issue for you.

Over all it loads extremely fast and is easy to use. Navigation is easy for anyone to view their photos in any fashion they wish. The app allows for batch deleting, uploading and sharing to your favorite apps, cropping and rotating of images. For the price tag of @0.99, it is a great application if you are looking for speed and an easy way to find photos instead of searching your current gallery. We have no doubt that an update will be in the works to include some of the features like folder selection and Picasa sometime soon.

Interested in picking up for your self? Hit up the QR code below and scan or click it to head to the Play Store and grab it.

Application: Scalado Album
Developer: Scalado Inc.
Cost: $0.99