jAlbum
Business Profile
Core Value Proposition
jAlbum provides a desktop application to create photo album websites from your images and publish them to your own site or to jalbum.net, with drag-and-drop simplicity and offline capabilities.
Target Customer
{"Photographers (event photographers, portfolio builders)","Professionals using image galleries","Schools","Families","Hobbyists"," Bloggers","Sellers (image sales) / E-commerce use cases","Clients needing client galleries / online portfolios"}
Key Differentiator
Open standards with no lock-in, full control of management, storage, and presentation of images, and the ability to host on your own site or anywhere else. It operates offline as a desktop app, does not rely on server-side scripting, and offers a wide variety of skins/themes.
Implementation Timeline
From drag-and-drop to a publishable gallery with one button press; immediate gallery creation and publishing flow described as simple and convenient.
Pain Points
- 1Vendor lock-in and limited hosting control
- 2Reliance on online-only gallery services and potential security/ownership concerns
- 3Managing large image collections and presenting them in diverse, customizable formats without needing complex web development
Key Features
- 1Gallery maker that creates web pages and prepares images/videos for the web
- 2Built-in image editor with crop, sharpen, levels, auto-correct, and watermark; supports batch processing
- 3Image organizer with folders, date/location organization, deduplication, and tagging
- 4Uploader with embedded FTP client to publish galleries to any hosting service or own domain
- 5Password protection for private galleries
- 6Skins/themes for varied presentation (Tiger, Photoblogger, FotoPlayer, LightFlow, LightBoxes, ImageFlow, NoteBook)
Target Customer Industries
Decision Makers
- 1Editor in Chief
- 2Founder
Client Results
- 1Over 120 million galleries published worldwide
- 2Trustpilot rating of 4.7/5
- 3Galleries can be hosted on your own site or jAlbum storage; open standards for metadata (no lock-in)
Competitive Advantages
- 1No vendor lock-in and open standards for metadata
- 2Full control over management, storage, and presentation of images
- 3Option to host galleries on your own site or using jAlbum storage
- 4Offline desktop software, not dependent on uploading to an online service first
- 5Built-in tools (image editor, organizer, FTP uploader) and password protection
- 6Large gallery support (claims of handling sizable collections) and a wide set of skins
Key Benefits
Additional Product Information
Product Description
jAlbum is a desktop application that creates photo album websites from images and publishes them to your own site or jalbum.net. It features drag-and-drop gallery creation, an integrated image editor and organizer, an FTP uploader, password protection, and multiple skins for presentation.
Target Market
Photographers, educators, organizations, families, hobbyists, bloggers, and sellers needing stylish, flexible photo galleries and client galleries online.
Unique Value Proposition
A desktop, offline-capable gallery creator with open standards, no lock-in, and flexible publishing to any hosting option, plus extensive customization through skins and built-in tools.
Technical Requirements
Desktop application available for macOS and Windows; supports managing large image collections (claims up to tens of thousands of images on a typical computer); includes an embedded FTP client for publishing
Pricing Model
Pricing includes licenses and storage options: Standard, Pro, Premium, Power, and Super accounts; storage options listed as 10 GB, 100 GB, and 300 GB; licenses can be sold with storage and include 12 months of upgrades; billing options include monthly and yearly terms (prices shown as starting from a monthly amount, exact figures garbled in content)
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