Having used JAlbum for several years it has "just worked" most of the time. On a couple of occasions I've had to contact support and the response has been rapid and resolved the problem. Great Support.

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

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.

I have used Jalbum for over 10 years with excellent results. The oldest albums still present well on web.

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

Finding where options are: main Jalbum and then Skins

I used to enjoy jalbum. I used it for school and for work for four years. When I left my school, I stopped using the site. I’d had tens of albums of old photos, all formatted and edited and whatnot using their resources. I came back in 2022 out of curiosity and a desire to edit and organize many of my photos. Upon logging in, I was hit with nostalgia: none of the site had changed. After an attempt to navigate the site, I realize that was not a good thing. It was slow, pixelated, hard to navigate, and very dated looking. There weren’t any features not provided by free internet apps, such as superimpose (great app). There weren’t any features that were modern, innovative or ground breaking. Sometimes, rather than tweak an old, dated interface it’s better to make sweeping and elegant changes. 4 years later and nothing has been updated besides maybe a font size and a few features. (I’ve been prompted about six times to write this review. I ignored it and again, but hopefully this will get you to stop requesting reviews.)

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

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 The photo quality has dropped, the capacity is low, the app and interface have not improved, the site/app is slow and outdated.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.

Excellent

I can create a minimalist gallery/album, similar to the ones I used to create, but much better.

It's complicated to learn all the facets!

I maintain a photo blog of my work and personal projects to share with potential clients and family/friends. The old software I was using made updates very time consuming and required a full upload of all the content with each update, not to mention the time to rebuild the entire album every time. jAlbum makes creation and updates so easy, I'm updating my albums almost nightly. Add the new photos, caption them, click the Build And Upload button and it's done. What used to take me hours, now takes just a few minutes.

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!

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.

I have been using jAlbum to create my web galleries for more than 10 years and have been satisfied with it since I began using it. I have seen galleries created by other photographers believe there is no reason to consider moving to another piece of software. jAlbum does what I want it to do and does it well.

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.

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.

Excellent experience. Makes creating and organizing my digital assets straight forward. Ability to easily share is outstanding.

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

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

I'm archiving 1,000 historical photos. jAlbum made it easy to do, easy to organize, easy to update and the metadata and tag cloud options are a great asset for this type of work.

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.

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.

It's one of the programs which are a MUST HAVE in my opinion. Easy to use, not too expensive, and great features.

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

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.

I examined several other on-line cloud based album systems and JAlbum met my expectations better than everything else I looked at.

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.

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.

I have an active license because of how good it is for asset management, especially if you're creating content for a team of designers and developers and you also need to present your assets to the client. It allows other designers to grab the assets they need in a straightforward, visual manner. Clients can also easily decide which assets they want and which assets they don't without fuss.

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

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.

Mostly satisfied.

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.

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.

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.

Needs better social media integration and customization.

In general an excellent product, solid and reliable. Not hard to understand and has plenty of flexibility. The customer service was excellent, I had a need for a macro to extract metadata from images and the team wrote one for me!

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.

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.

My needs are quite simple and for personal use to make picture albums by year for my use. This program, jAlbum, allows me to do this economically and easily. I've used it for several years and am well pleased with the results. I do not post these pictures publicly. They are for my uses only.

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.

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

excellent over many years of usage

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

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

I love using this program. I have my own art site where I post paintings and pictures. I update it frequently when new works are completed. Once the site is defined, updating is simple. I can add the items and have it all uploaded in a matter of minutes. I am also happy I can use my own domains and not rely upon their service to host my site. Not that there's a problem with that (some people do use that feature) but I prefer managing my own sites.

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.

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

I use it on two of my websites, with probably close to a quarter of a million photos split up across a dozen main galleries.

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.

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.

I mainly use jAlbum to organize an album of pictures on a particular topic to generate an album to include on my website. I do have some plans to use it more and in a bigger way. But I need some time to work on it.

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.

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.

Handy and fast at doing what you need. Used to really enjoy it but have taken a step back from it.

Perfect for heavy users but for smaller users for personal use expensive enough for just a display photos

Pricing for sole users who make no profit from photos

The product has been absolutely amazing throughout its life.

This is a wonderful product that, together with some amazing skins, makes it very easy to market and sell production photographs from our stage shows. On the (very) rare occasion I have experienced a hiccup the support has been tremendous.

Nothing at all. This product is as close to perfect as possible!

Allows me to prepare custom online albums for my clients to view and share their photos. The integration with pos and other features allows the flexibility to create different sites for clients needs

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

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

I've been using jAlbum for a long long time. Serves all my needs well. There are a couple of quirks but that's okay.

I like the fact that you don't have to buy a yearly license. So long as you have your own server space like I do, I buy a new license about every 2 to 3 years just to get updates.

Can't say I found anything I really don't like about the product.

I love it. I discovered it a lifetime ago because it ran on Linux and have recently rediscovered it. I use it to make photo albums to share family events and really like the fact I can control where the photos go - it can dump to a directory and doesn't require a silly cloud solution.

Easy and runs on anything. Produces great plain HTML or great fancy HTML. I'm not locked into their system.

Would like some better integration with managing photos via folders on my home NAS.

Very good. No complaints.

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.

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.