Synology Photos

Synology Photos

Synology Photos is a photo management application developed by Synology for their NAS devices. It allows organizing, editing, sharing and backing up photos stored on the NAS.
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Synology Photos: Photo Management for NAS Devices

A photo management application developed by Synology for their NAS devices, allowing organization, editing, sharing and backing up photos stored on the NAS.

What is Synology Photos?

Synology Photos is a photo and video management application developed by Synology for use with their network-attached storage (NAS) devices. It provides a centralized solution to organize, edit, share, and back up photo and video collections stored on the Synology NAS.

Key features of Synology Photos include:

  • Auto-organizing photos and videos into albums based on time and location
  • Face recognition to group people together across your entire photo collection
  • Editing tools like cropping, rotating, color adjustments, and filters
  • Sharing albums and photos through public links or integration with social media
  • Backing up photos to cloud services like Dropbox, Google Drive, AWS S3
  • Desktop and mobile apps to access your photo library on the go
  • Slideshow creation with custom music
  • Synology Moments for sharing photos with friends and family

An advantage of Synology Photos is tight integration with Synology NAS devices, allowing the application to easily access media files stored on the NAS. Limitations include being designed specifically for Synology hardware and not supporting some advanced editing features found in desktop photo editing applications.

Synology Photos Features

Features

  1. Photo and video management
  2. Face recognition
  3. Shared photo libraries
  4. Mobile apps
  5. Third-party cloud service integration
  6. Editing tools
  7. AI-powered search

Pricing

  • Free
  • Subscription-Based

Pros

Easy to set up and use

Good organization features

Facial recognition works well

Mobile apps allow access on the go

Integrates with Synology Drive for backup

Cons

Limited editing capabilities

No online galleries for sharing

Requires Synology NAS device


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