Definitely misread that as Download The Mall and was quite amused by the name until I checked the link to see more lol

So if I wanted to sync photos from my phone to the computer, then delete the local copies on my phone to save space, that would not work?

E: But keep the copies on the computer, of course

This is a fantastic list I’ve bookmarked, thanks. But I do want to highlight OP’s first point where it says:

…they are too confusing because they list too many apps for each category.

Might be a little more beneficial for OP to highlight a couple useful for their use case that are fairly beginner friendly? I’d do it but I’m basically in the same boat as OP right now, lol