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Carousel from Dropbox is a companion app for iOS and Android designed to make image management faster and easier. It’s a simple app that helps you manage your photos stored on Dropbox.

Carousel integrates with Dropbox and can automatically upload and organise your images. So rather than having to search files and folders looking for a particular image, you will be able to search by time, date and even location if you use location metadata. It’s a useful app that makes managing multiple images easier than ever.

While the simple sorting is useful, Carousel will be most useful for active photographers who have images everywhere. If you’re like me, you have pictures on your current phone, old phone, memory sticks, digital camera, computer and tablet. Carousel brings them all together seamlessly into one single place and then allows you to sort them as you see fit. While sorting is important, this bringing everything together is what we find most useful.

When you come to review your images, you can use the vertical scroll function to view them in order like many other photo apps. This carousel function is the backbone of the app and what gives it its name.

As well as collecting and sorting images, Carousel also allows you to send them, share them and even automatically collect them as you take them or link them. Once you set up the app, everything happens automatically. Whenever you take a photograph, it’s automatically uploaded. This might cause you problems if you’re a prolific snapper and are using the free Dropbox storage, but that’s the point of this app.

While offering amazing usability, Carousel is also designed to encourage you to upgrade to a paid-for Dropbox account. There’s nothing wrong with that at all and given the inherent usefulness of this app, we don’t even mind it. That’s how good Carousel is.

Jesmond Darmanin is a technology enthusiast who has his own blog at www.itnewsblog.com.

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