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Aves

This is basically the best media gallery you can find for Android. Not only because it's open source, but it's actually one of the most feature-rich application which is being actively developed. What it can do now:

- read GPS data from your photos / videos and display them on map, like Google Photo does. But unlike Google Photo, Aves doesn't leak your data anywhere outside of your phone. You can then use a map to find what photos you've made in specific places.

- update GPS data (so far only for photos). Typical use case: if you have a bunch of photos shared by your friends via messengers (like WhatsApp), they usually missing GPS data on them. But with Aves you can update them to whatever you need

- assign any custom free-text tags on your photos and search photos by them. Typical example: instead of putting your photos into different directories, you can assign one or multiple tags on them, like "2022 - Trip to Europe" or "Outdoor" and then you'll be able to see all your photos tagged with this tag. It's much more convenient and flexible way of organizing your media library, provided growing support for these tags from desktop applications, like DigiKam.

- fix date & time on your photos

More features are coming:

- objects and face recognition (offline! no google involved)

- assign GPS and tags for videos

Speaking of features, the only closest application I could find was an app named "Piktures" but it's proprietary, paid and it has a idiotic bug which basically prevents you from using free version. I reported it to developers, but they were too lazy to fix it.

LibreTube

URL: https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube

Google is known for controversial style of artificially limiting features in their free apps, to unblock them only if you pay some subscription fee. Like YouTube mobile app. Without paying you won't be able to download videos to see them later, when you have no internet connection. Or to listen to videos in a background, with your phone screen being turned off.

But that's not the case, if you're using LibreTube. Not only it offers you these features for free, out of the box, but it also allows you to watch youtube videos without watching annoying ads or being registered at all. You still can have your subscription lists and watch history, but they'll be stored locally, on your phone.

I think it's just awesome!