I'm sure if I dug around for hours on the forum, I might find the technical answers to my question, but I'm also interested in opinions.

 

I'm looking for a good way to browse photos stored on unraid from both a ChromeOS device and an IOS device. 

 

Here's the story.  My wife takes thousands of photos and videos every year.  Occasionally with a camera, but usually with her phone.  Whenever her phone's storage gets full, I'll move the files onto unraid for her.  I have a user share setup just for her photos, and on her Windows machine I have a drive mapped to that folder.  In the past she's been happy to simply browse that mapped drive with thumbnail view turned on in Windows.  But she doesn't use that computer anymore. 

 

I bought a chromebook for me about a year ago, and she's taken it over.  She loves how simple it is, just about everything she does is web based anyway, so it works out great.  Between her iphone and the chromebook, she hasn't touched her computer for at least 6 months or more. 

 

So anyway, last night I did a large upload for her.  At least 5000 files.  I showed her how you can browse the folders through the unraid web gui on the chromebook, and on the iphone I used an application called "File Browser" to access files on the unraid server.  I've used it before and it met my needs, but for her needs it was very slow and doesn't have a friendly interface.  Either solution would be fine for me when I'm doing one off things, but she was not very happy.   

 

So I need something for her that is simple to use, and fast.  And preferably the same solution could be used on Chrome and IOS. 

 

I know there are web based apps that I could install maybe through a docker or a plugin, but I want people's opinions on the simplest way to accomplish my goal, that will also be user friendly for my wife. 

Flickr - you can search for cars - yellow cars - food - green food - green and purple food

The new uploadr even dedups for you.

 

Available on chrome and ios.

Yeah, I  thought about putting it on a hosted service like flickr, but I don't know, the paranoid part of me doesn't like the concept of putting thousands of photos(some personal) on someone else's server. 

 

Maybe that's what I'll end up doing...

flickr has very clear licensing choices.

 

The recent changes, new uploadr and image search are compelling.