I&#x27;m also completely confused. It states:<p><pre><code>  Download the new Google Photos today for uninterrupted 
  access to all your photos, videos and albums.  If you don’t 
  update to the new Google Photos, Google+ Photos on Android 
  will soon stop working, but your photos and videos will 
  still remain safely stored...
</code></pre>
I&#x27;m actually so glad I didn&#x27;t decide to use Google Picasa as a safe backup option for my photos. I&#x27;m not sure I can trust Google to take care of my data.<p>I have now been moved from Picasa, to Google+ Photos to +Google Photos, which I assume at some point will be renamed again to *Google-+Photos=WTF<p>I don&#x27;t want an app on my phone, because I don&#x27;t want a Google app to be randomly uploading photos from my phone to it&#x27;s servers.<p>So, if I don&#x27;t have an mobile app, has anything actually changed?<p>I just want a Google website app that allows me to:<p>- Present photos in albums (that I name and sort) nicely<p>- Share those photos with selective friends and family using
   a URL that I can revoke (like Flickr does)<p>- Explore where my photos were taken on a map<p>- Allow comments on photos without friends and family having 
   to have some kind of Google account<p>I use my phone like a camera. I connect it to my computer with a USB cable, download the photos and then organise and sort them, then selectively upload them. I want to have that control. I don&#x27;t want to upload everything. Why does everything have to be an app these days?<p>My perfect photo app would be open source. There is no good open source alternative. All open source photos web apps are poor. I&#x27;ve tried them all. I love the Google+ Photos interface. Bright, white and big photos in a mosaic. Flickr used to be good, then it decided to go all black and depressing.<p>TroveBox and Lychee are the closest, but Trovebox (Open Photo) has a very problematic install and Lychee is missing the Amazon S3 storage option). No app offers encrypted at rest storage, which these days should be a must.<p>I&#x27;ve read several times that &quot;there is no money in consumer photo apps&quot;, but personally I&#x27;m paying Flickr a subscription and Google and Dropbox, when none of them really provide me with what I want. I&#x27;d happily pay a license fee for some open source software that actually did the job, and which I knew wasn&#x27;t going to &quot;sunset&quot; after two years.<p>&lt;&#x2F;end rant&gt;