Unbound App Reviews

iPhoto just got a little too much for me so I switched to Unbound. It a great way to look at your folders without resorting to the Finder. And the Dropbox connectivity is great.

I appreciate developers that continue to fine-tune and update their apps addressing users needs. Thanks guys for the extra polish.

This is a simpler way to organize your photos. iPhoto is too unwieldy and I love how Dropbox is so dependable and straightforward. Using Unbound with Dropbox just makes a lot of sense for me.

By by to iPhoto. Although iPhoto has great editing features it is to cumbersome and runs to slow to be of any great use. Thanks to unbound I can now use my macbook for all my photo needs again.

I never write reviews but I have to for Unbound. I love this app. Perfect for storing and accessing lots of photos fast!!!!

This application is an AWESOME start to something great. What it needs are some addition basic features: -Rotate pictures -Map view of geotagged photos -View actual folder structure (having flat view of albums is great, but needs folder view too) -Move folders/albums into other folders

I was looking for something to help me re-organize and cleanup my photos. This app is OK, but due to its limitations and performance I think the price is steep. Some of the issues/limitations I found: - If you click to view a photo, from that view you cannot move the photo to a different album. I found myself clicking the photo, clicking Back and then moving. - If you are cycling through the photos in an album and delete a photo, it seems to lose track of where it is, and you end up back at the first photo. For this reason I ended up using Finder to perform my deletes. - If you do a lot of heavy copying, moving, deleting, etc of your photos outside the app, Unbound freezes or crashes. - I keep my photos in a directory structure several levels deep. Unbound essentially flattens the structure, so you only see the name of the lowest level directory. - You cannot do basic editing such as rotating and cropping photos. Some of the things I like about it: - It works directly with your file system so any changes you make outside the app are immediately reflected. - The info window shows the date taken. - You can multi-select photos for move/delete operations.

I’ve been using Unbound for a couple of weeks now and I’m very pleased with it. The developer’s claims about speed are absolutely true. Unbound is very responsive, loading even my very large photo library in just a few brief moments. Depending on your Internet connection, your mileage may vary. However, anyone looking to use Unbound to replace iPhoto should be aware that the app is limited because it is meant to be a browsers for Dropbox files, not a full-fledged photo library that introduces gobs of additional meta data in the way that iPhoto does. With Unbround you can no longer sort by people or places, for example. The only sorting mechanism avaialble to you are name and date. You may find this refreshingly simple and straightforward, but I could also see some users finding this limiting and frustrating. The drawbacks of Unbound are in no way related to the execution of the app’s development. It does was it is designed to do. That said, what it is designed to do is very limited, providing a simpler, yet less rich experience for sorting and browsing photos.

Fast photo manager that works great. Just what I was looking for.

I was looking to move my photos out of iPhoto and Aperture libraries because Apple is killing these products. I considered Adobe Lightroom, but I really wanted to just keep my photos in a folder structure in Dropbox and be able to see them all quickly. I don’t need or want all the editing functionality in software like Aperture and Lightroom – any editing I do, I’ll do in Acorn or Pixelmator. Unbound does exactly this: it quickly shows thumbnails of photos in a folder structure. It uses the folder name as the “album name,” which is exactly what I want. I keep my photos in a "YYYY/YYYY-MM album name" folder structure (or "YYYY/YYYY-MM” for misc. photos), and Unbound is smart enough to realize that my folder hierarchy is two levels deep and just show the “YYYY-MM album name” folders (not the “YYYY” folders). I’m tired of having to switch photo management applications every few years when the app de jour gets crappy or “sunsetted.” Keeping my photos in a folder structure should last much longer. Unbound is the perfect app for viewing photos in such a system.

Great app, thank you. I agree to someone else’s comment (Max Masnick) that iPhoto is becoming too complex, being killed by Apple. This is simple. Each folder is an albun (just like I have in my google drive); displaying the pictures, navigating the albums, deleting, etc: all very simple and fast. Found very few glitches if any so far. Suggestion for future releases is to invest a little in visual. iPhoto is still better looking (but for that way more complicated). Thanks for writing this piece of software.

…. Pretty good photo management tool… An included easy to use and access tutorial would be nice...

I had high hopes for this but its not working for me. My photo collection is on a NAS. My MBP in on the same network connected by wireless N. I have a large collection and Unbound crashes every time I try to use it. It will not ever get finished loading the folders before it crashes. One time it even claimed that I had over 9 trillion images in my collection while it was trying to load.

I’ve been using Unbound now for about a month. Its been great being able to view and share my pictures across multuple computers and handheld devices at home, at work, and on the road (I store my pictures in Dropbox). But man, it crashes. It crashes a lot. At this point its just annoying - it goes down and I reboot the program. But I would expect it to be a tad more stable.

Good riddance to iPhoto. For a photo editor, I’ll get something else. But, for storing and retreiving photos, Unbound does a great job. With 193 folders, I would like to see the ability to put folders in folders. For example, trips to Italy over many years.

Crashed several times importing my first album… disappointed

After a week of using this, I am removing 2 stars. Scrolling through the photos is way too slow. It is not a good experience. Please fix and I will add more stars. Thanks.

Do you know what’s irritating? Pop-up dialogs begging for App Store reviews. Well, here’s your review.

I have and know how to use photoshop, Aperture, and have had or try many others, until today, I decided to do another search since iphoto was just dying, and crashing, not to mention my macair got crazy hot, and yes I do have the i7 and 16ram, and pcle, SSD, so for anyone outher there, yes I do know what I’m talking about, I have been doing the media editing, and network engeneering since the 90’s. so lets move on. This little program does exactly what I need, is crazy fast, is just great, I love it, no crashes, no bugs, just plain and simple and if you want to get fancy, just download the photoshop elements editor, and graphic converter 9, and you are good to go, and if you want to take it to an extra step, dump your image on one of the your couple of hundred bucks image software you have. Enjoy! thanks guys..

It’s painful scolling thru pics, whether IOS or OS X. Since I use Dropbox, it’s a shame that Carousel doesn’t come on a MAC :(