An interesting concept with potential – The Roll - Automatically organize and find the best photos in your camera roll Review

I first read about this at Petapixel and was impressed enough to download it earlier today. So far, I'm impressed. Generally, The Roll is great at tagging my photos. It notices things that I somehow overlooked when tagging elsewhere. Once in a while it gets something humorously wrong, but it is in the early stages of learning, so I can forgive that. We all love to think we're great photographers and it is hard to be objective with our own work. The Roll is more clinical about how it grades photos. I wasn't under any illusions that I'm the next Ansel Adams but it was a little surprising to see that some photos I thought would be good were given mediocre or poor grades while others unexpectedly scored better. I'm curious to learn what the criteria for grading is on this point. The organization looks great! It is fun to explore my photos after getting them sorted, tagged and graded. Hopefully Apple will introduce some of these features in future iterations of Photos for iOs and Mac. The one thing I was underwhelmed by, perhaps unfairly, was the speed. I know The Roll was starting from scratch with over 600+ photos but it seemed like it took an awful long time for it to finally work through everything. This is the only thing I honestly dun The Roll for. Perhaps future versions of The Roll could be customized a bit more to make suggestions to users to help them improve their photography? A simple grade is a good start, but it doesn't help users like myself understand why Photo A scored lower than Photo B for example. The Roll is off to a good start and I look forward to future updates and tweaks to add to the user experience.
Review by jerry7171 on The Roll - Automatically organize and find the best photos in your camera roll.