Photographers - Adobe or other app for offline client presentations / portfolio on iPad

Because the clients - like everyone - would probably just start scrolling through pictures and start accessing my regular photos (how many times have we all given someone our phone to look at one or two photos, to see them start scrolling through our entire feed!), so I'm not sure that's the solution I'm looking for. I'd like something more self-contained where they can explore through various folders: portraits; B+W portraits; portraits of seniors; sports lifestyle; food lifestyle etc, while I'm talking about my process.

By @El_Jeffe

For that specific use case, I don’t think there is a solution from Adobe.

If it was just one folder that didn’t need to be locked off, I would say just export images into a normal cloud folder (iCloud Drive, Google Drive, etc.) that you can browse in the iOS Files app and use the QuickLook full screen slide show straight from Files, then you don’t need any other apps. But, you need to keep users out of other galleries and apps, so that won’t work.

If it was just one folder that you needed locked off, I would suggest laying out a book in the Book module, printing it to PDF, and tossing that PDF over to the iPad to let people browse it full screen in the Files app, again no other apps needed. But you need enough interactivity to present a set of galleries, so that won’t work for you.

For your two requirements of “locked out of rest of iPad” and “set of galleries,” you are probably looking at a dedicated non-Adobe app. The only reason I’m not recommending any is that I haven’t used one, but that topic has come up in some threads here. In the iPad App Store, two terms you want to use to find potential apps are “kiosk” and “portfolio”. Kiosk apps are widely used to turn iPads into things like museum guides, building directories, and retail point-of-sale, so they are designed to deliver interactive, user-driven visual information while also fencing off the rest of the iPad. Portfolio apps are more specialized for artists/photographers to sort of replace the traditional “pass it around” paper portfolio, but with additional features like branching navigation to multiple galleries instead of being a linear series of pages. And of course, many portfolio apps can store the whole thing on board to be independent of a network connection.

To answer your question about Adobe Portfolio, it’s meant to be an art-focused basic website, not specifically a locked off “pass it around” portfolio. You could use it to set up the kind of organization you need, but because it’s basically a website, it needs a network connection and wouldn’t fence people into the portfolio because it’s just a normal website running in a normal web browser.