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The jAlbum desktop software creates web photo galleries for any web site. Perfect for photographers, individuals and organizations wanting to share images and videos on their own sites without relying on centralized services.
jAlbum has been in business since 2006 and is a trusted solution for independent photo sharing. To date, jAlbum galleries are used on over 220 million web sites (Data from Majestic.com). jAlbum has received top user reviews with SiteJabber, TrustPilot and Capterra
Why use jAlbum?
Integrity: YOU have full control of the management, storage, and presentation of your images no lock-in. Host your images with us or with any web hotel you like. Your galleries will work - even without us.
Convenience: Manage large amounts of images right from your PC
Expression: Not all web sites look alike, so why should your galleries? With jAlbum, you can customize the visuals and functionality of your galleries to your liking.
jAlbum is available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
jAlbum is a web album making tool that allows users to create stunning online photo albums with ease. It offers a range of features, including drag-and-drop functionality, customizable templates, and the ability to host galleries on any website.
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Up until I found jAlbum (the "j" stands for Java), I was using several PHP-driven galleries (I have two very active photo galleries). These were all very good galleries, BUT the upkeep was killing. As soon as PHP comes on the scene, you have to spend a lot of time keeping PHP clean from release to release. Sometimes a new PHP release comes out, and a couple of features in the gallery stop working. And you now waste a ton of time trying to fix.
I then discovered jAlbum. I tried out their limited free release, very much liked what I saw and purchased the full edition. JAlbum makes creating an album very much easier, and because the whole process, up to export, is on your local machine, fast and easy to change. The "skins/themes" add to the whole experience of you being able to modify the look and feel to how you want things to look and interact with your users/visitors.
And very importantly, the number of photographs does not seem to be an issue. I have one album with over 25,000 photographs (the other album only has 20,000!), but I know of one user who told me he had over 45,000 photos and is still going strong.
So if you would like a really professional-looking Photographic Album(s), then look no further than jAlbum, and let PHP be a thing of the past.
I am not associated with jAlbum in any way except as a customer.
I have been using JAlbum for almost 20 years and have been happy with what it does to make my life as a one-person photographer with much simpler for managing and publishing my work
I'm truly glad to hearing this Scott. Thanks for your words. Means a lot
/David, jAlbum founder
I had several questions about my existing albums and got immediate feedback for a series of questions over 2-3 days, Each time I asked a tearoom I got an answer on the same day!
Thanks for sharing your positive experience with us!
I have used JAlbum before to create great photo albums for my website. Its been a while but I decided to start working on my site again, and like always JAlbum has been a great tool to help.
Happy to have you back again. Thanks for your review Desmond!
Some 20 years ago I searched for and tried a number of applications to create web galleries. After discovering jAlbum it became my only choice and I have been using it in its various iterations since then. It is fast and it's use ranges from creating easy, simple web albums to more complex multi-category sites, depending on your level of expertise. JAlbum has great flexibility in the "look" of your final presentation through the wide variety of themes or "skins" you can apply.
Thank you for taking the time to elaborate on what aspects you like about jAlbum, Paul!
I've been using jAlbum to create family related web galleries for over 10 years. The software is friendly, yet powerful, and has a multitude of skin choices for the visual presentation of those galleries. I tried several different gallery presentations before settling on jAlbum as my software of choice and found them not as powerful or lacking in visual presentation choices. JAlbum can create galleries as complex or simple as you need them to be. It checks all the relevant boxes...
I love jAlbum. I am not a pro. I build a few websites now and then. Mostly I use jAlbum for my personal projects. I've been using jAlbum for well over a decade, maybe two.
Happy to having had you around for such a long time Greg. Thanks for your words!
I could not find the method by which to verify my current payment method. I finally gave up and had your support staff check it, evidently it was still valid.
We're glad you did ask for help, cause we care. Thank you for your continuous support and trust for us!
Have been with jAlbum since the beginning and love the program, also David has been a great help when needed. Again Thanks.
Toby Earl
You're welcome!
/David
I host a web page on my LAN. Anyone in my household can view our family album spanning decades on any local connected device, smart TV, mobile phone, laptop, whatever,
I run a bash script nightly to pick up any changes I have made to my collection and rebuild jAlbum. It's been working great for quite some time and makes local photo sharing very easy.
Thank you for developing this great tool
Cheers
Thanks for sharing how you use jAlbum Dan!
The jAlbum people offer the best support you'll find anywhere. I upgraded jAlbum after 6 years, and something didn't work. I started a help ticket, and they got back to me within hours (on a Sunday!) and showed me how to fix the problem. I couldn't be happier.
Thanks for showing such appreciation for our support work Steve!
JAlbum is easy to work with making web browsers and more advanced web sites. Various setting that can be overwhelming depending on the skin used, but once all set, it's easy to export setting to be used in future projects. If in need of assistance, their Customer Service is very fast, knowledgeable, and ready to help.
Thank you Stefan!
JAlbum works great for me. I can publish my photos and others can easily access them. Simple to use, simple for remote publishing, and reliable.
Happy to hear this. Thanks for sharing Mark!
Use it routinely for my non profit and personal. Easy to use yet flexible. Worth the cost. A workflow must.
Thank you for your kind, positive words. We're happy to hear that jAlbum makes a difference.
This is amazing software! Its very intuitive, and Ive had no trouble figuring it all out (tho i do have experience with web dev, css and php/sql driven sites) You can get a gallery up so fast. I have so many uses for it too! Its great that it can function as a shopping cart, allows comments, Facebook integration and even hosts videos. And the presentation is so nice, using lightbox and slideshow functionality. Ive been trying to get away from php coz of the security issues and this is a great alternative that is really secure. I wish i had this 10 yrs ago!
Thank you for your elaborate review Barbara. You bring up an often overlooked reason for choosing jAlbum - security.
Creating Photo Albums to share with our Family, friends and Photo Club members.
Makes it so easy to create a family album for 39 family members and post the album to the
JAlbum assigned space for me.
I am approaching 90 years and seriously considering closing my print darkroom.
Thanks for sharing how you use jAlbum Sam. Respectable age!
I enjoy the simplicity and the ability to choose from 100's of different themes and updating a site is a no brainer.
Happy you enjoy the variety of jAlbum skins/themes Victor. Thank you!
I use JAlbum to build handsome, easy to share (online) collections ("albums") of my extensive digital photography. It's a snap to use, always reliable and constantly get improved. Thank you JAlbum crew!
Thank you!
JAlbum streamlines the process of building online albums, removing the usual technical headaches while still offering deep customization options to ensure the final result perfectly matches your vision.
Thank you for outlining what makes you enjoy jAlbum!
In 1996 I got my first digital camera and began taking and sharing photos online. As my collection grew to over a quarter of a million images, I had to switch software many times. All other solutions I tried eventually crumbled under the weight of so many times. I am glad I found Jalbum so many years ago. My galleries here so large? I had to split them up into multiple sub-sites on my server due to exceeding Linux file count limits - while Jalbum never had any such issues. Although I miss the speed and simplicity of earlier solutions I used (Jalbum takes may hours to process one of my subsections, even on an M2 Mac with 24gb RAM), having something slower that works is preferable to something faster that crashes.
Thank you for sharing!
JAlbum greatly simplifies the process of creating a web page of photos and films. Largely drag and drop, the result is a great looking album that works on computers, tablets, and phones. I have tried several products in this space and jAlbum excels. I actually had a long talk with the founder before I purchased the product. This is a small shop IT provider that understands the value of great service and a clean, responsive UI experience.
Thanks for those heartwarming words Dennis! Much appreciated.


Thank you for taking the time explaining this often overllooked advantage of using jAlbum - security. Also good that you point out how well jAlbum manages large galleries. Thank you!