Looking for stock Photo app replacement

No search function in iPhoto for iOS? Really? That's just stupidity.

The developers must not have any young children -- I know several "parents" with young children, including myself, who have large numbers of photos and videos on their iPhones. It's really stupid not to have a search feature -- iPhoto on the Mac does.

What nonsense. I just wasted $4.99 on iPhoto. Oh yes, all of my albums and events are there -- All on the same page! This resulted in 9 Christmas albums in a row. 9 Birthday albums all in a row, etc. All of the albums are thrown together on one page, alphabetized. It looks nothing like my iPhoto on my iMac!

And with no way to search for a photo, it's just one jumbled mess of albums. Why can't Apple get things like this right? How may people have to complain about their obtuse methodology for being able to store photos in a manner similar to a directory structure?

Not to mention it took for attempts to sync with iPhoto for iOS installed, and I had to force quit iTunes several times. That could be because I was syncing about 4,000 photos, but still.

I'm certain many people of the same problem. Not being able to search for a photo in your photo app is extremely stupid. The same is true of viewing your photos on an Apple TV using iTunes -- No ability to search for anything! Just a bunch of "events" presented one after another. If you configure iTunes to display photos on the ATV using iPhoto, you get one top level directory, then a jumbled mess of events, again with no way to search for a photo.

I've used iPhoto for years, and I just switched to Picasa. You simply tell Picasa which folders you want to scan, and everything is automatic after that, i.e., if you add photos, modify photos, or delete photos, it's all automatically updated in Picasa. In iPhoto to get some semblance of a directory hierarchy, you need to create a folder, then drag stuff to it. Even then it's only one level deep. Very messy. Of course the Apple juice drinkers in this forum will tell you that you just don't understand how iPhoto works. What nonsense. Picasa and Lightroom got it right, iPhoto did not, in my opinion.

You didn't understand my statemement -- When viewing iPhoto photos on the Apple TV via iTunes, you loose your directory hierarchy, like you have shown in your graphic. Just one continious line of events. It's ugly.

What you are showing is a directory tree in iPhoto itself. I painstakenly used to do this as well, until I switched to Picasa a short time ago. Keep this in mind -- You're efforts to maintain that directory structure -- Are completely automated in Picasa!

Sorry, Apple makes may great products, and they also do some extremely stupid things as well. Like, not being able to search for a photo in their iOS photo app. Stupid!

It's Csound1, Apples forum damage control expert!

As a matter of fact, I purchased a Nook 7" Android tablet for $129, and installed a $20 32GB SD card in it. I love the android ecosystem, and unlike Apple, Google actually listens to it's customers. After switching to using Picasa instead of iPhoto, I realized just how limited iPhoto really is. I can upload ALL of my photos and videos to Google's cloud at no additional cost. And then, I can use the Picasa mobile app to actually search for photos on my iPhone. Imagine that!

Take the word from someone who has used iPhoto for years -- iPhoto lacks many features that Picasa has. But for anyone has and doubts as to which is better, I encourage them to try both and decide for themselves.

And speaking of the default iOS camera app and iPhoto for iOS, neither has a search feature. Incredibly stupid.