PhotoHoarder

Your camera roll has thousands of photos in it and you have opened it, felt tired, and closed it again.

PhotoHoarder gives you one photo at a time and one decision to make. Swipe right to keep it. Swipe left to line it up for deletion. Swipe up to heart it. That is the whole app.

NOTHING IS DELETED BY A SWIPE

Swiping left does not delete anything. It adds the photo to a queue that you review as a grid, where you can pull anything back out. Only when you tap Delete does anything leave your library, and iOS asks you to confirm even then.

If you swipe wrong, a Rewind button appears for a few seconds and takes it back.

WHAT YOU CAN SWEEP

• Everything, or just photos, or just videos
• Loved Photos and Loved Videos, when you want to revisit what you hearted
• On This Day, showing what you took on today's date in past years

Favorites stay out of the main deck by default, because hearting something is already a decision to keep it.

FIND THE DUPLICATES

Bursts and near-identical shots get grouped together, with one suggested keeper and a plain reason why it won. Keep that one, queue the rest, move on. The matching runs on your device using Apple's Vision framework. Nothing is uploaded.

VIDEOS TOO

Videos play in the deck with sound, so you can judge them without leaving. Hold the top corners to scrub forward or back.

ABOUT FREEING SPACE

Deleting moves photos to Recently Deleted, which is Apple's 30 day safety net. Your storage does not actually drop until that album is emptied, and only the Photos app can empty it. PhotoHoarder shows you exactly how, every time. It is two taps, and it is the step most people miss.

PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION

PhotoHoarder has no networking code in it at all. No accounts, no sign in, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. Your photos never leave your phone because there is nothing in the app that could send them.

One purchase. No subscription.