# SmartScan (open-source photo and gallery app)

> SmartScan is a free, open-source photo and gallery app for Android. Turn your images and videos into a personal knowledge base. It has 500 GitHub stars and is released under the GPL-3.0-only license, and you can install it from F-Droid.

Turn your images and videos into a personal knowledge base. Search, organise, and rediscover the media you've saved, with automatic collections and concepts that help you find information you might otherwise forget. Search Find images and videos using text or image search Search by tags or tag + text queries Search from other apps using share or intent Paste images directly into the search bar Automatic Collections Automatically group visually similar media into collections Browse related photos and videos without manually organising them Concepts Organise media by meaning, not just appearance Create concepts around topics or ideas and automatically find matching media using descriptions…

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/smartscanapp/smartscan-android |
| Platforms | Android |
| Built with | Jetpack Compose |
| GitHub stars | 500 |
| License | GPL-3.0-only (open source) |
| F-Droid | https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fpf.smartscan/ (package com.fpf.smartscan) |
| F-Droid anti-features | none flagged |
| Google Play | not linked |
| App Store | not linked |
| Website | https://smartscanapp.github.io/website/ |
| Official | no |
| Category | Photos, gallery & camera |
| Latest release | v2.0.1 (Aug 27, 2026) |
| Last commit | Aug 27, 2026 |

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

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