Sovereign photo gallery for Android

Your photos. Your cloud.
Your rules.

Nestria exists to give you a sovereign photo gallery: browse and organize your pictures on your phone, back them up to cloud storage you choose, and stay in full control — without sending your memories through our servers.

  • Photos stay on your device and in your own cloud account
  • You pick the provider — Google Drive, OneDrive, and more to come
  • No Nestria account, no ads, and no data collection

What “sovereign” means here

A sovereign gallery puts you in charge of where your photos live, who can access them, and how they are synced — not a tech company’s walled garden.

You own the data path

Photos move between your phone and the cloud provider you connect. Nestria does not operate storage servers and cannot access your library.

Your cloud, your choice

Sync to Google Drive, OneDrive, or other providers you already trust. Switch providers or stop syncing anytime — no vendor lock-in.

No profiling or ads

We don’t sell data, show targeted ads, or embed analytics SDKs that fingerprint your usage. The app works for you, not advertisers.

Built for everyday use

Albums, maps, favorites, and smart storage tiering — practical tools to manage thousands of photos without giving up control.

Featured app

My Smart Gallery

Our first app and the heart of the Nestria idea: a full-featured, sovereign photo gallery for Android. Organize your library on your phone, explore memories on a map, and sync safely to cloud storage you control.

  • Browse, favorite, and sort photos with clear local / synced / cloud-only status
  • Relive trips on an interactive map — location data stays on your device
  • Two-way sync with Google Drive and OneDrive (more providers planned)
  • Free up phone space with smart tiering — previews on device, originals in your cloud
  • Back up albums, tags, and settings to your cloud when you switch phones

How Nestria apps work

  1. 1

    Install from Google Play

    Download the app to your Android phone. No account required with Nestria — we don't operate a user database.

  2. 2

    Use your device as normal

    Your photos and app data stay on your phone. Everything runs locally unless you turn on cloud features.

  3. 3

    Optionally connect your cloud

    When you enable backup or sync, data flows directly between your phone and your cloud provider. Nestria is not in the path.

About Nestria

Nestria is an independent Android publisher with one clear goal: offer you a way to run a sovereign photo gallery — where your pictures live on your device and in cloud accounts you choose, not on someone else’s servers.

My Smart Gallery is our first app. It brings iCloud-style photo management to Android with the freedom to pick your own cloud provider. More apps may follow, all built on the same respect for your data and your autonomy.

Ready for a gallery you actually own?

Download My Smart Gallery free on Google Play — sovereign sync to the cloud you choose.

Get My Smart Gallery