Filters

Narrow any search, or your whole library, with one tap per filter.

Tap Filters above the grid to narrow any search, or your whole library. Every tap applies at once, and the results and the counts follow along.

01 · The filter sheet, top to bottom
Year

Photos taken in the years you pick.

Taken between

Two days picked in a calendar, both included. Picking years opens the calendar on those years; picking days sets the years aside, and the Year group says so until you clear the days.

Photo has

Four switches: OCR (only photos with text read out of them), Tagged (only photos you gave tags), Has people (only photos with people named on them), Has location (only photos with a GPS position). A switch that is off shows every photo.

Meaning

The words Opensolr read your photos into.

People, My tags (Albums), City, Country

By name, by your tags, by where they were taken. The cross next to a person removes that name from every photo.

Folder

The folders you sync.

Camera model, Orientation

The camera, and landscape, portrait or square.

Distance

Only when a radius is set, from Photos nearby or Search this area on the map: 0.5, 1, 5, 25 or 100 km, or Anywhere to drop it.

Clear all and Done (N), where N is the number of photos the filters leave, sit at the top and at the bottom of the sheet. Filters that are on show as removable chips above the grid.

02 · How the choices work
  • Every value has its number of photos next to it, so every choice has photos behind it.
  • Several values of one group can be picked together (2025 or 2026); different groups narrow each other. The group you are picking in keeps offering all its values.
  • Long lists show ten values with Show all; a list of more than 50 values gets a search field instead.
  • Groups fold like the headings of the grid, all start folded, and stay as you left them. A folded group shows a badge with how many of its filters are on.
  • With nothing typed, the lists of your whole library are asked of your index once and kept on the phone until something is written. After the first word or filter, they are the counts of the results themselves.
03 · Your photos, one by one

Opensolr Photos is open source and MIT licensed. Questions about your Opensolr account, index or plan go to opensolr.com/contact; questions about the app itself belong on GitHub.

Opensolr Photos Documentation