# Lavender Photos (open-source photo and gallery app)

> Lavender Photos is a free, open-source photo and gallery app for Android. A no non-sense, stylish, and performant gallery app. It has 676 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0-only license, and you can install it from F-Droid.

Lavender Photos is a no non-sense, stylish, and performant gallery app for Android. Features Smooth Browsing: Browse all your photos and videos smoothly, separated by date Flexible Albums: Add and remove albums as you wish, no arbitrary or forced selections Smart Search: Search for an image by its name, date or tag! Cloud Backup: Immich integration for safe and easy cloud media backup Media Tagging: Tagging system to properly organize media Trash Bin: Trash Bin that's sorted by recently trashed, so you don't lose track of what went where Favourites System: Full fledged favouriting system, compatible with Immich and other apps Album Groups: Create groups of albums for easy organization of…

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/kaii-lb/LavenderPhotos |
| Platforms | Android |
| Built with | Kotlin |
| GitHub stars | 676 |
| License | GPL-3.0-only (open source) |
| F-Droid | https://f-droid.org/packages/com.kaii.photos/ (package com.kaii.photos) |
| F-Droid anti-features | none flagged |
| Google Play | not linked |
| App Store | not linked |
| Website | https://github.com/kaii-lb/LavenderPhotos |
| Official | no |
| Category | Photos, gallery & camera |
| Latest release | v2.1.4 (Aug 29, 2026) |
| Last commit | Sep 21, 2026 |

F-Droid builds its apps from source and flags anti-features: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/

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