4 stars: Fantastic. I'm particularly in love with the gallery layout and how they did it. Seeing every photo in its proper aspect ratio instead of being a thumbnail is amazing. My only issue is that Google Photos has these black bars that won't go away when viewing a photo. It's hard to ignore. It's mostly obvious when I put my device horizontally and tap, so none of the image settings are apparent.
3 stars: I used to love this app, but quality is getting worse. Today I bought a Pixel 8 Pro, setting up the library again took forever, basically I had to go to sleep and when I woke up it had finished. Not the best experience, it could do with some progress indicator or at least preview the latest pics, after all, the website doesn't need to do all that caching and can still show something initially.
2 stars: What a poor excuse for a photo browser. It has all the bells and whistles except the basics. Finding downloaded photos takes way too long. And in what's typical of Google, it nags you every day to back up your photos even if you've got better ways to do it. Looking for an alternative.
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