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Way back in December of 2012, Dropbox Snapjoy, a photo archiving service. Today, the cloud company has finally unveiled the product of that deal: a standalone iOS and Android app called Carousel, which makes it easy to share and sort massive amounts of photographs.

And in these days of the smart phone camera and Instagram, with everyone running around madly, taking pictures of everything, who doesn't need a little help organizing his or her photo collection?聽

The software is free, and available today through the iTunes and Google Play 蝉迟辞谤别蝉.听

Carousel, the Dropbox team in a blog post, "combines the photos in your Dropbox with the photos on your phone, and automatically backs up new ones as you take them. Carousel sorts all these memories by event so you can easily travel back in time to any photo from any date. And unlike other mobile galleries, the size of your Carousel isn鈥檛 constrained by the space on your phone, which means you can finally have your entire life鈥檚 memories in one place."

Some screenshots from the app are pictured above. The aesthetic is very much photo-first, with a tiled layout that VentureBeat has "beautiful." In addition,聽Ramesh Balakrishnan and Chris Lee聽of Dropbox have that the app is getting packaged with a messaging service, allowing you to share and comment on photo files with other users.聽

In related news, at a press event this week, Dropbox聽CEO Drew Houston that the number of users on the platform had hit 275 million, up significantly from the聽200 million users Dropbox聽 last November.聽