Simplify Media, the music streaming startup based out of Redwood City, Calif., has launched a new application on the App Store called Simplify Photos. [iTunes Link] With the new Simplify Photos application, users will be able to access a digital photo library on a home computer to access them anytime, anywhere on their iPhone, iPod Touch, or laptop.
Essentially, the application connects to your home computer and syncs batches of photos over to your iPhone, so you can view the photos on the go. In order to get the photos over, you need to have both Simplify Photos running on your computer, and your iPhone/iPod Touch, and the syncing process will begin. The photos are never stored on the iPhone/iPod Touch, and this brings a big advantage of the application — this frees up gigabytes of space on your iPhone/iPod Touch, since you never have to store the photos on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Simplify Photos lets users browse photos by folder and timeline, or GPS location on a map, view thumbnails, individual photos or slideshow, access iPhoto albums, events, faces and places, search by tags, comments, title or description. On the computer side, users can see shared photos or albums from other people’s computers who have shared with you through iPhoto, browse by folder and timeline, or GPS location on a map, import photos into other applications via Windows Explorer, share within a private network instead of uploading to a website.
You can read more about Simplify Photos on the Simplify Media blog. Simplify Photos is $0.99 and available from the App Store today. Below you’ll find a demo video of the new application.
This is pretty cool.
Or you can use iDisk and mobileme.
cant i just sync my iphone in itunes and go from there?
Just bought my 3gs last week.
buddy of mine told me about simplify media.
downloaded app ($5.99) for the music…
WORKS ABSOLUTELY GREAT…FREES UP MY HARDDRIVE SPACE FOR MORE APPS…LOL.
By using the PHOTO AND PICTURE APPS; I JUST FREED UP 7GB ON MY PHONE…..WOW!!!!!!
THEN, i downloaded the PHOTO app today ($0.99)…
WORKS GREAT…
THEY SHOULD CHANGE THEIR NAME TO “SIMPLY WONDERFUL”…..LOL…
APPS like these are what makes the iphone 3gs a POWERHOUSE OF A DEVICE…
I agree with Josh. You CAN sync your photos via iTunes and go. And the photos that sync are “sized” for your iphone. So we are not talking about much space being taken on the iPhone in reality. I have 775 photos on my iPhone right now and they take up just 383MB. Yes, this is not zero MB, but considering iPhones are 8GB, 16GB and even 32GB, I don’t see how a few megs of images would concern many people.
Simplify’s music app is a far better solution. While a photo is fairly small, an MP3 takes up some room. And with music collections easily exceeding iPhone capacities, this makes more sense. I doubt this app will sell that well.
When will we see one for video, Simply (I mean ATT
?
Yes, you can always sync to itunes but then the photos take up space on your iPhone. Using this app, you don’t have anything stored locally on the iPhone.
“The photos are never stored on the iPhone/iPod Touch, and this brings a big advantage of the application”
Except if you are somewhere without network coverage, in which case you are screwed.
And why can’t it sync photos from a website or ftp server? why does it *require* a proprietary desktop app? What if your ‘desktop’ is behind a NAT firewall and is inaccesible? (Or does this, in addition to requiring net access, and only getting photos from a proprietary software app, also pass your private pictures through a ’service’ website’).
“Thanks, but No thanks”
Ugh! What have they done with their logo. It’s down right painful to look at.
Wow .. this gonna be areall fun .. I have downloaded it .. and checking it out ..
Cheers
Daina
Now a days, Every developer focusing to developed some promising applications for facebook and IPhone. IPhone demand also increasing these days. Nice info. Thanks
Apps like this are useful but I’m not a big fan of leaving my computer on while I am away from it for more than 2 hours. I often wonders why some tech fans like to go green yet love apps like this that waste energy by leaving their home computers on 24/7. This and media server softwares. I can understand if you are a professional that need access to important files on your home computer but apps like this encourage everyone to start wasting energy just to have access to their favorite photos on the fly. Wouldn’t it be easier to use Flickr and its app, or just sync to your iPhone; photos don’t take up that much space.
Re Tim’s comment:
I’m not sure I would characterize Flickr’s always-on infrastructure as somehow more “green” than this solution.
This is an innovation how exactly? Other platforms have had this for years!
Bought this (cr)app, then discovered that it SUCKS.
• It flattens your folder structure, making it very hard to find things. This is a fatal flaw.
• No option to disable autorotate, which is bad news if you have a mixture of portrait & landscape photos.
• Slideshows look terrible because of the blurry transition (they could have fixed this by caching the next photo before switching to it).
• Disconnect errors are a constant headache.
Not worth even the 99¢ they’re currently asking for it. Glad I didn’t buy their $5.99 music app!
I use their music app and it works perfectly well. Really amazing.