Amazon Photos vs jAlbum

Amazon Photos stores, searches, shares, displays, and prints photos and videos from compatible devices. It is available on Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows. Auto-Save can back up a mobile camera roll, while Desktop Backup saves folders from Windows or Mac computers. Image recognition organizes photos by people, places, things, and dates, and the service supports natural-language search. Family Vault can include up to six members, each with an account at no additional cost; sharing groups can have up to 50 members each. Photos can also appear on Echo Show, Echo Spot, and Fire TV devices. The built-in editor can crop, adjust, and filter photos, while U.S. customers can use Amazon Prints for prints, photo books, and gifts. Free storage is 5 GB shared across photos and videos. The Amazon Prime Photos benefit includes unlimited full-resolution photo storage and 5 GB for videos and other files. Paid options include 50 GB for $0.99 a month and 2 TB for $11.99 a month. The service is for personal, non-commercial use only.

jAlbum is desktop software for building photo and video gallery websites from local media, then publishing them to a personal site or a jalbum.net account. Its editor supports cropping, sharpening, level adjustments, automatic correction, watermarks, and batch processing. The organizer can arrange photos by date and location, remove duplicates, and add tags. Users can choose among hundreds of customizable album templates, called skins. An included FTP client uploads galleries to web hosting. jAlbum says generated albums do not rely on server-side scripting. The free license allows galleries of at most 24 objects; the page says gallery size may otherwise depend on computer memory. Listed platforms are Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows, though desktop is the primary platform. Standard and Pro licenses include one year of priority email support, with replies within 24 hours on business days. The maker identifies photographers, artists, businesses, organizations, and families as potential users. jAlbum supports RAW photos, face recognition, and metadata tools, but does not offer cloud sync.