Thousand Words
Photo slideshows from your own Google Drive, on your Mac or Windows PC.
Play slideshows of the photos you pick from your own Google Drive.
What Thousand Words does
Thousand Words is a desktop app for Mac and Windows that plays photo slideshows from your own Google Drive. Sign in with your Google account in your web browser, pick photos with the Google Picker, and the app plays them full screen. It only gets access to the files you pick. The player includes play/pause, previous and next, slide length from 2 to 30 seconds, shuffle, loop, captions from file names, fullscreen, and keyboard shortcuts. Six looks: Standard, Flow (scrolling columns), Mosaic (reshuffling tiles), Scatter (Polaroid pile), Rubik (turning wall and a self-solving 3D cube), and Random. Images only in v1. The name comes from the saying a picture is worth a thousand words.
Who it's for
Built for people who want to play their own Google Drive photos as a full-screen slideshow on their computer.
Why people use it
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Sign in with your own Google account and pick photos with the Google Picker
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Only gets access to the files you pick
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Play/pause, previous and next, slide length from 2 to 30 seconds, shuffle, loop, captions from file names, fullscreen, and keyboard shortcuts
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Six looks: Standard, Flow (scrolling columns), Mosaic (reshuffling tiles), Scatter (Polaroid pile), Rubik (turning wall and a self-solving 3D cube), and Random
The fine print
Straight talk about what Thousand Words is - and what it is not yet.
- Images only in v1.
- Uses only the photos you pick in Google Drive.
- A free version and a paid upgrade are planned. Pricing is not live yet.
- Coming soon - not available to download yet.
- Not affiliated with or endorsed by Google.
Why Thousand Words asks for Google access
Read the full Thousand Words privacy policy and the terms of service.
Thousand Words asks you to sign in with Google so it can show photos from your own Drive. It asks for your basic profile (your name, email address and profile picture) to show which Google account is signed in, and for access to only the Drive files you pick or upload with the Google Picker, so it can load those photos into your slideshow. It cannot see the rest of your Drive.
- The app runs on your computer. There is no Ethinx server, database or account, and your Google data is not sent to Ethinx or anyone else.
- No analytics, trackers, ads or crash reporting.
- Sign out in the app to revoke its access at Google, or remove access any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
Thousand Words' use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Google API Services User Data Policy
Ready for Thousand Words?
A free version and a paid upgrade are planned. Pricing is not live yet.