automatically sort or copy photos from camera folder to date related subfolders
1,000+ downloads
About Camera Date Folders
Camera Date Folders is a photography app developed by Andreas Kromke.
How many times has Camera Date Folders been downloaded?
Camera Date Folders has been downloaded 1.6 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 19 times.
What is the rating of Camera Date Folders?
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Is Camera Date Folders free?
Camera Date Folders is free to download. The APK download size is 1.99 MB. The latest version available is 1.5.2. The last update was on August 23, 2025.
What are the requirements for Camera Date Folders?
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play June 2022.
Description
While camera devices usually sort photos taken to specific folders on the SD card, Android photo programs do not do so. Instead, thousands of photos are stored in the same directory, usually DCIM/Camera. When the photos are copied via USB to a computer, the transfer often is unstable and timeouts while reading the huge directory. Further, it is difficult to copy newer pictures, e.g. those taken last month.
This program creates a folder tree structure and sorts the photos into these folders. As a result, no more than photos taken on one day or month shall be stored in the same directory. As a consequence it it will become trivial to copy a day or month folder from the device to the computer.
Even more: Given a Document Provider (like the "CIFS Documents Provider" or some cloud services, but not Google) supporting directories, the application can directly make incremental backups e.g. on a computer in the same LAN.
Supported: * One, two or three levels of subfolders. * Daily, monthly or yearly subfolders. * Revert, i.e. all files are moved back from subfolders to main folder (flattening). * Keep photos within camera folder path or specify separate destination directory. * Either move or copy (incremental backup) photos to separate destination directory. * In SAF mode the destination could also be a shared folder on a computer (needs a Document Provider app on the device). * Deselect destination directory by leaving the file selector with the BACK button or set as same as camera folder. * Already sorted photos will be re-sorted when subfolder scheme was changed, also in destination folder (if any). * File names beginning with "yyyymmdd\_". * File names beginning with "PXL\_yyyymmdd_" or "IMG\_yyyymmdd\_". * File name extensions ".jpg", ".jpeg" and ".mp4". * Storage Access Framework used for Android 7 and newer. * Traditional File mode used for Android 4.4, 5 and 6, as SAF does not support file move operations. * Fixed camera path "DCIM/Camera" for Android 4.4 due to lack of file selector. * Traditional File mode can be forced for Android 7 to 10 for higher speed, but due to Android without write permission to SD card.
Current Limitations (Yet): * Currently no EXIF metadata are extracted, instead the photo's date must be encoded in the file name. * Only one photo directory is currently supported. * Due to Google's policy, the program is forced to use Google's Storage Access Framework, which is extremely slow. A faster version is technically trivial, but that one would not be allowed to be published in Play Store.
Recent changes: - Detect unusual prefixes in file names, containing numbers. - Avoid hiding of GUI elements on long screens. - Resetting preferences updates GUI elements accordingly. - Colours of dark theme changed. - Get rid of "()" in version info. - Updated Gradle and libraries. - API 36.
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