Minimal Folio App Reviews

Couldnt ask for a better app. Sure, there are a couple features I would like added, maybe they will come with the next update. More importantly this is a nice, clean, intuitive app that is fun to use and looks great. Also I used it for a presentation and got a job. If you have any inquiries Simon emailed me back in a few hours. Cant say it enough. If you are an artist: Get it!

This app is the presentation engine our entire team works from. All my international distributors now use it and Dropbox provide a fantastic content distribution tool. Everyone that watches me use immediately sees functionality for their industries that have no similarity to ours. I don't know what the naysayers are trying to do, but I can't believe MF can't do it. As regards to image quality, start with good quality content. Those people may be too young to remember; garbage in, garbage out.

This app can only be useful as a presentation tool if it is 100% reliable and glitch free. It is not. Like other users who have reviewed here, I too have experienced the phantom all black non-slide, the mysterious rearrangement and disappearance of my slides and. It's a bummer. I can't use this for showing my work to clients unless I know it is going to work correctly every time. It does not. Let me know when you fix it.

Annoyed I wasted my money. Can’t even import images without crashing. Unusable.

The portfolio looks great after you get it right. The problem is with the ipad synching. Proper synching would look for the most recent version and put that in place. What happened for me is I loaded some folders into dropbox in the minimalfolio folder. Synched within the app and they loaded up. So far so good. Some of the photos were too large to display within the app however, so i went to the images in dropbox, resized in photoshop and saved. Then in the app i re synched. Voila, all the old images on the ipad overwrote the dropbox images. I then thought I would delete the items in the app and replace the images in dropbox as I had when I started. This time, when I synched with dropbox, the app deleted my dropbox files!!!! This seems totally wrong. A synch should use the newest version of the named file. No idea if I will get it working in time for a presentation. But all in, I have to say for a new buyer it is too much trouble.

Minimal folio is as the name describes - minimal. It is a great way to show off my work, and does well with both images and video. Dropbox sync is a nice way to keep things updated.

I have been using this for about 4 years. It is the most elegant, straightforward means of presenting my work. I have a separate column for each project, starts with a self made title sheet, on to photos of the completed work, then PDF’s of floor plans. Each project is its own very complete presentation. Then I have a separate portfolio of magazine publications, if an interview with a potential client warrants it. Had a couple of glitches transitioning into iOS 11, but all worked out, and smooth again.

It was FABULOUS - when it worked. It doesnt anymore. Please update. I miss the ease of use when it worked. Crashes , hidden images, order not sticking, strange duplications,...

This app is not fancy, nor does it have bells and whistles, it is very clean and intuitive. I had my portfolio up and running in less than 10 minutes!

wonderful ! This app got so much better with updates (have not used it in a while, and am very pleased how far this has come). The Dropbox sync with the master upload / masterdownload options makes selecting and editing a portfolio on a computer fast and easy to transfer to the ipad. Love the fact that no syncing through itunes is necessary. Big compliment to the developpers !

Minimal Folio has been a godsend when it comes to showing my video work to clients. My wife is an agent and uses it as well. A couple of issues: Organizing video is a bit of a pain as there are no titles on the videos. Not clear if you can link more than one iPad to a Minimal folio in Dropbox??? Would be great for an agent with multiple iPads for presentation. No idea if anyone is continuing to refine the app? Would be nice to see some fine tuning.

I used this app to arrange my portfolio for a job interview. When I reopened the app it rearranged all my items! Don't buy this crap

This app is easy to use and is wonderful to have to present your work quickly to someone through syncing to Dropbox. If you don't want all of your files to sync, then make a separate account on Dropbox specifically for this app. It may seem inconvienient but actually works best to keep you organized!

great design and concept but pretty useless because it rearranges photos on its own, others have complained too so it must be a common issue. needs a fix asap, otherwise its useless and a waste of money

The main problem is that some of my photos just disappear...randomly. And we should be able to put a title at the top of the columns !

Best port app I have found. Glad it is being updated again.

This app is terrible and a major waste of $9.99. This is not a portfolio app, honestly it is a joke. Buyer Beware I would never recommend this app to anyone wanting to showcase their hard work. MINUS 5 Stars!!!

Video player has no controls, no pause, no skip, no skim, nothing.

Beautiful and elegant designed. How to present yourself and you work properly. I'm a fine art photographer and everything that I do shows better in Minimal Folio! TYVM Patricio

Idea is nice , but keeps crashing . Ultimately unusable and unreliable .

Highly customizable - great to use to organize a photography portfolio and share with clients. The 'in Ipad' customization easily allows you to update on the go without worrying about syncing the iPad. Definitely a must for any photographer looking to share their portfolio or organizing photo libraries!

Simple and effective. I use it to store frequently-used files of all types for quick reference.

This app is exactly what I needed to show off my portfolio. It leaves the focus on your work, rather than the app. Absolutely brilliant.

Would be nice if we could load portfolios online somewhere straight from the app.

Fantastic ap and a great way to display my artwork

I used to love this app but with the new iOS it’s become unreliable and glitchy. Stay clear until the fix what has to be easy bugs to iron out.

This app would be amazing if it worked properly. Every time I open it or re-sync my Dropbox files, it goes haywire. I've had this app for over 2 years and have yet to see a single update; I'm fairly sure the developers have abandoned Minimal Folio. I strongly suggest finding something better to display your work.

Fluid, simple layout that allows one to display pics and videos in a classy and professional fashion. Adding a simple description overlay would be a cool feature for a future version.

This is more of a photo album than portfolio. No, functionality beyond swipe left & right, up and down. I want my 3$ bucks back!

It doesn’t work properly

I do not want to sync EVERYTHING in my Dropbox. I have a lot of files in there. I want to pick and choose. Not what I expected.

Wow, so easy and so simple to use a toddler could figure it out. I personally prefer dragging files via iTunes directly from my computer and yes, just accept the location services since otherwise you won't be able to get access to your photos. It did crash once but last night when I used it at Portfolio Night (speed dating with Creative Directors), it worked flawlessly, and both CDs and students alike asked how I was presenting my portfolio. Mind you, I was able to get my portfolio on here in a matter of a few hours right before presentation (from downloading the app, learning how to use it, to actually using it in a creative interview/mentoring setting), so goes to show how easy this thing is. Could it be improved? Sure. I think being able to name each column would be neat. Possibly color each column too, although that might detract from the minimalism. Again, minor gripes, and as is, best portfolio presentation app out there, bar none. Kudos for using Futura as well.

There's a bug is the program. Photos seem to mysteriously disappear and replaced with black when you try to rearrange the order.

simple + clean + elegant. easy to create multiple portfolios (or galleries) of my work, and viewers can easily navigate through everything with no problems. I especially like the swipe up + down option in addition to the standard left + right. it allows me to give viewers more context + in-depth info about each piece (sketches, videos, zoomed in details.)

Seems like it's not being updated anymore. Stopped working for me at a very inconvenient moment. Was great before.

If only it didn't crash every time I try to add images from my camera roll. When it crashes, it also jumbles the pieces I'd already arranged in columns as well. Quite frustrating. If these two things were fixed, I'd love the app.

Great portfolio app. I would give it five stars if it did not crash so much when I attempt to load pictures.

The app is super-easy to use, looks and works great. Just drag your images and videos into iTunes and then organize them in the App. I highly recommend this to any designer looking for a simple, clean, portfolio.

This app seems very nice, but why do I have to share my location? I don't want to tuen on location services, I never use it on my iPad and iPhone, if its not switched on it does not work, this seems unfair to me. The app is cheap and well designed, please change the location problem and I would give it 5 stars.

If you are looking for a portfolio app that is clean and easy to use, it doesn't get much better than this. I bought the iPhone version of this app years ago (which worked great, but has since been taken down). When I got an iPad and bought this version, it took a bit of time but everything synced perfectly from the iPhone version. Overall this app looks and performs great. I highly recommend it!

This is by far the best portfolio app on the market. I only wish that, while zoomed into a stack, a pinch would draw it back to the overall gallery view. It's a little cumbersome to have to click the button on the top left corner. Other than that it's perfect.

I've been trying to upload my pictures to this app for two days now. Every Time I try to upload one the app crashes. Wish I had my $$ back.

Big fan of this app. Great price, snappy, sync with Dropbox works perfect. Only thing it's missing is a way to lock the menu and slightly more obvious scroll bars for the columns.

Great features and connects with dropbox! Amazing interface! Best app for folios.

This is a horrible app - Hard to scroll through, get to the menu, only does one thing. Auto formatted my pictures and made them look terrible, and pictures is the only thing it does! Complete waste of my time and money. Can't customize anything, load from dropbox, display mode is useless. Whole app is useless. Just use the slideshow setting on your ipad. I want a refund.

This is great, minimal, straight forward easy to use.

Brilliant app, thanks for fixing iOS7 bug.

The interface is so unobtrusive and well thought-out. I love this app—it gets out of the way and lets your work do the talking. My only complaint is that sometimes it's a bit slow to render the images (so there's a bit of interlacing on larger images for a moment).

I appreciate some of the new versions that have reduced crashing and other bugs, but still experiencing strange occurrences, like imported things showing up twice, buggy when moving items around. The biggest drawback, though, is presenting videos. If for some reason you have to stop the video mid presentation, you have to start from the beginning again — no Pause, no FF or Rewind. It can make for some awkward presentations Dan I’d love to see at least minimal video playback control. Keep working it at — it’s they still the best presentation format for the iPad out there!