BucketsPremium features
Faces, places and trips, Map and distance search, automatic filing and storage management.
Premium features include Faces, Places and trips, the Map and distance searches, and automatic filing of objects that Buckets classifies with confidence. Enable them in Settings under Premium features. Share a place from Google Maps to Buckets to add it as a contact.
Places and trips reads the coordinates your photos already carry and groups them: places you keep going back to, and the times you were away from home. The phone is asked what a place is called; you give the bucket you put it in any name you like. Places work only if location tagging is turned on in the phone’s camera settings. Screenshots, and photos shared by other people or downloaded from other apps, usually carry no location and are not placed.
Faces groups photos by the contacts shown in them. It processes each photo once. It does not name faces automatically; it reports possible matches for review.
The premium features are sold as one bundle, bought once. Turning it on starts a first reading of the photos and videos on the phone, which takes about 30 minutes to 3 hours depending on how many there are and how large they are. On Android the reading continues while you use other apps or the screen is off, with a notification showing while it runs. On an iPhone it happens only while Buckets is open on the screen; it pauses when Buckets is closed and continues from where it stopped the next time it is opened. The screen stays on until the reading is done. Android 15 and later allow background reading for 6 hours a day; after that it reads only while Buckets is open.
Premium recognition happens entirely on your phone, without an account.