Diashow-Maker SlideFlow TV

BAD

I have been a photographer for over 50 years. I have a Mac mini with a nice 27” Lenovo monitor at the end my desk at the end of our dining room. I wanted a simple program to run ongoing slide shows so that whenever we are at the dinner table, we can enjoy all kinds of photos. This program does exactly what I wanted. No more and no less. In addition to showing the slides it has a feature you can turn on and off the zooms into faces of photos with people. You can also play music with your slide shows.

No Editing!

The app does send a slideshow to my TV. However, once started there is no way to fast forward or pause or rewind. The video timeline on my iPad does not sync with the actual slideshow, so if I rewind on my tablet nothing happens on the TV. Also, the app doesn’t send images to the TV, it sends a video of images. The app takes the images you add to a slideshow and processes them into a video, which takes a while. Not for last-minute presentations. I also wish the slideshow could tell what resolution/size my original images are so it doesn’t blow up lower resolution images so large. I hates me a pixelated image, but sometimes that’s all I can get from my sources.

I downloaded it and had a slideshow on my TV in less than ten minutes. Fun, fast and easy! Just what I was looking for!

Nice little app. But certainly not perfect. It has a couple of drawbacks. First, there doesn't seem to be any way to sync the song library with the playlists on my iPad or iphone, so some songs are not there. Second, and this is a big one, Apparently there is no way to save a slideshow once you make it. When you are using 100 or 200 slides in a slides how like I am, This means you must go through the entire process of setting up a slideshow every time you want to use it. Very time consuming.

Please add access to photos saved in Google Photos library