Overview
jAlbum has a rating of 4.3 stars from 137 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with jAlbum most frequently mention many years and photo albums. jAlbum ranks 3rd among Photo Sharing sites.
If anything, there may be TOO much flexibility! I had to spend some time going through all the album/skin settings, reviewing the help documentation, to begin to understand all the features.
JAlbum is the very best web photo display application we have found. It's easy to use and very flexible with many templates, or skins as they are called for different formats.
Many thanks for your review Larry!
I've been using jAlbum for years to create photo albums of various sorts. Many are simply of the family type and chronicle events of the year including travel, holidays as well as other things of note. I have also used jAlbum as a tool on professional and business websites to add photo documentation to various projects.
The app has become very sluggish and timed out often
I have the latest version
Dear Ernest,
Sorry to hear you have problems with our app. Please contact us at support@jalbum.net so we can work out a solution. We need to know at what point in time/usage it becomes sluggish for starters. Ideally, if you can provide a screen recording, please pass that on to us.
I would like a way to develop projects on your cloud server and then an app like way to "relocate" the project to my own drives and have it automatically reset all drive / file locations within the projects menus to the new "to" location.
While slide maps displayed fine, the folder map did not. The issue was tracked down to a Mac file being "ingested" by jAlbum and gumming up the works. (technical terms). Kudos to Laza.
Good that we could sort it out. Thanks for your review Tony!
Very nice product with a rather steep learning curve. One tends to forget some of the steps if not used often. It would help if there were an easier way to add a new folder and photos to an existing album.
Thanks for your feedback. How about dragging and dropping the new folder onto an open project? (CTRL+C and CTRL+V also works)
I've been using jAlbum for years. It is truly a premium product. I'd recommend this software for anyone who wants to display their images in an elegant interface. There are many styles and skins to choose from; most of which can be customized unto themself. The sky is pretty much the limit.
Indeed:-) Thank you Don!
I find the jAlbum interface and structure difficult to learn. It takes a lot of time to figure it out. Creating a gallery structure and getting photos into it should not be difficult, especially when trying to avoid duplicate uploads. Some of teh terminology is odd.
That's saddening to hear, but I value your comments. What the few negative people fail to explain is specifically what they find hard. It's sadly always sweeping terms. If you could detail more specifically what words and user interface parts you've found confusing in an email to us at support@jalbum.net then we promise that we will read it carefully!
Somewhat nice program but not very different from previous versions. Would not recommend to a freind.
Please write us at support@jalbum.net and explain what major changes you're missing. Without knowing that, we cannot fulfil your wishes.
There is not enough technical support. I inherited this platform and cannot ever find easy guidance for basic changes to the platform.
When renewing you have the option to change the number of jalbum users but only to increase not decrease.
I normally pay $40-$50 a year and just did, and now it has expired
There are lots of bugs. The software is not very intuitive.
I am a Mac user and have been for several decades. Before that I used windows though have forgotten most of what I knew. My main issue with Jalbum is trying to change the directory after I already started the project. After all these years I still have not figured it out so I delete the project and start anew and select the file location before making anything. Otherwise I am satisfied with the program. Over the years there have been steps to simplify setup but there is a lot that needs to be done. A Mac programmer could help clean up and simplify the interface. Yes, Jalbum allows customization however, I rarely make changes because I don't like needing to relearn the complex procedures to just make a few simple changes. Thank you.
Thanks for your feedback. To change the directory, open Settings->General, then tick the "Change directory locations" checkbox. Now you can edit the directory, either by typing the new path, by using the folder selector or even by dragging and dropping a directory onto the "Image directory" field. You can also move the whole project folder to a new location in order to have the directory updated to reflect the new location.
I like jAlbum a lot and have used it for years. However, the user interface is difficult and hard to use - a high learning curve. I enjoy photography and one of the last things I want to do is spend time researching and learning new program procedures and looks, therefore I just keep doing the same thing every time rather that try different looks and skins. Ease of use has improved over the years however suggest you employ a Mac programmer to simplify the user interface while allowing paths for Advanced procedures. I am still trying to figure out how to change the directory location after a slideshow has been started or completed. I am thankful for the subscription features since it ensures continuity and viability. Thank you and wishing you continues success.
Published photos on jalbum website and photos were fuzzy and unacceptable to customer. Had to use another tool to display customer photos
Jim, please get in contact with us at support@jalbum.net so we can help you out. JAlbum is known to produce super sharp pictures, so there must be some setting wrong here. As it stands now, you're unhappy and your rating hurts our business. I hope you get in touch with us. Pass us a link to the gallery for inspection.
I purchased jAlbum years ago and put pictures on your on-line server. It constantly rejected my renewal for two weeks or more. You were unable to resolve the problem until recently but I wasn't notified it was resolved. I tried again and my credit card was accepted.
Sorry to hear about that experience. Were you in contact directly with us (support@jalbum.net) or our payment partner Fastspring?
Very pleased with this software. I needed to publish about 1000 photos from a recent trip. Needed to organize by folder and camera date. There were many themes to choose from, all of them professionally created and error free. This is an excellent way to organize photos and video for personal or professional use.
Thanks for taking the time to write this review Will. Enjoy jAlbum!
I created an album of my Astro images. The problem is I do not know how to access the album for including in an html file. Is there a single file I can access?
Larry Simpson
Hi Larry. You have full access to all files jAlbum produces (Tools->Open directories->Output directory). We'd love to help you if you contact our support at support@jalbum.net or via our user forum at https://jalbum.net/forum. Simply giving us a 1-star rating won't help you and hurts our business.
Experiencing limited time with the albums to date has been a revealing pleasure in so many hopeful ways. Attempting to make more quality time to get web sites back up and running in coming days. Thanks much for being the best platform found over the past few years. Cheers!
Thank you Stephen. We're so pleased reading this.
Overall I have loved JAlbum for years. BUT I hate the green popups! Make them go away! Everything else gets better and faster, but these get in my way, over and over and over and over and over and slow me down, and take away a disproportionate amount of the happiness.
Thanks for your feedback. All those speech bubbles but one go away after having been shown once. The remaining one hints about jAlbum's search bar. Use it ONCE and you'll never be pestered with that hint again. This behaviour is intentional as the search bar is an immensely helpful part of jAlbum. It locates any setting or project for you. Type "font" for instance, then click the menu alternatives to be taken to a font setting.
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 no need to upload them to an online service in order to pick the best ones for presentation and add captions. This is better done locally, and works offline too!
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.
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With jAlbum you have full control of the look of the generated album, not just the color theme and basic layout. Making an album is still just a simple matter of drag and drop, plus a button click if you prefer to use one of the many existing looks. jAlbum will process your images, make index pages, create slide show pages and even upload the final album to the Internet for your friends to see. jAlbum runs on all platforms and speaks over 30 languages.
Today, jAlbum is one of the world's most popular applications for producing web photo albums. jAlbum galleries are today present on over 220 million web pages (Majetic.com). The variety of album skins and the possibility to personalize the presentation makes jAlbum extremely flexible. jAlbum has an active community that contributes to the development of the skins, plugins and language options.
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We're glad you made it through:-) Thanks Jefferey!
PS. Do use the search bar in order to find the setting you need. Just type what you're looking for.