Noodle Gallery for iPhone
The Noodle Gallery iPhone app is now live on the App Store — background camera backup, on-device CLIP search, the map, and a working Shared Spaces preview, all from your pocket.
Your photos, your home — now in your pocket
Noodle Gallery for iPhone is live on the App Store today. It's a native iOS app built around a single idea: every photo you take should land on hardware you own, and every search you run on those photos should happen there too. The phone is the window — your server is still home.
Sign in once with your Gallery server URL and account, and the whole library is on the device: timeline, search, map, spaces, settings. Background camera backup uploads new photos and videos straight to your server as you take them — there is no Noodle-operated middle layer, no third-party photo bucket, and no cloud account to opt out of.
Find anything, instantly — without the cloud
The same CLIP smart search that powers the web library is one tap away on the phone. Type "golden retriever" and the app sends the query to your server, your server runs CLIP locally, and the matching photos come back. Indexing, embeddings, and ranking all happen on hardware you control — no Apple-side analysis, no Google-side analysis, no Noodle-side inference service.
The first run can also kick off a Google Photos import — the in-app wizard hands your Takeout archive straight to your library, with dates, GPS, and favourites preserved end-to-end.
Shared Spaces — working today, full parity coming soon
Shared Spaces is the headline Gallery feature, and the iPhone app ships with a working first cut. You can open a space, see its timeline, browse the people the space is shared with, and pull down to refresh as new photos land. The drift-based sync layer that backs Spaces on iPhone has been in beta with personal users for weeks — the basics are solid.
Full parity with the web version is the very next mobile milestone. In-space search, faceted filtering, and the activity log are all on the next release branch and will roll out as a follow-up update over the next few weeks. If you depend on heavy filtering inside spaces today, the web app remains the fuller experience for the moment — but the gap is closing fast.
The map, your places, on a private server
The map view from the web app comes with the iPhone too — every photo with GPS metadata becomes a marker, clustered as you zoom out. The map runs on tiles served from your Gallery server, the location names come from your server's reverse-geocoding, and the marker thumbnails are streamed from your library. Nothing about where your photos were taken touches a third-party API.
How to install
Find Noodle Gallery on the App Store, sign in with your Gallery server URL and account, and the app does the rest. An Android build is right behind this release and will land in the Play Store in the coming days.
See Noodle Gallery for iPhone in action or set up your own instance.