Upscalr
SwipeClean decides which photos are worth keeping; Upscalr makes the keepers bigger
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iOS
SwipeClean
Tinder for your camera roll — swipe left to clean, right to keep, and nothing is deleted until you confirm
In the labPlanned: Free · Pro $4.99 one-time
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About SwipeClean
Your camera roll has thousands of photos and maybe a hundred you'd miss. SwipeClean is built to get you through the rest, one photo at a time, full screen, with real momentum and haptics. Nothing is deleted while you swipe: photos flicked left go to a queue you review as a grid before anything happens, and confirmed photos land in the Photos app's Recently Deleted album, where iOS keeps them for 30 days — the app cannot bypass that and doesn't pretend to. You pick where to start rather than scrolling from the beginning of time: Screenshots, Videos, Selfies, Live Photos, Favourites, On This Day, or any single month, each showing its own size so you can attack whichever is costing you the most. A storage dashboard measures the library by category before and after, so the figure you freed is measured rather than guessed. Every decision is reversible — undo the last swipe, or open the session's full history and flip any single photo back. There is no account, no analytics, and no server behind it; the only network traffic is iOS fetching a full-resolution original back from your own iCloud library when it had offloaded one. Swiping, batch deletion, undo, bulk select, the dashboard, streaks, and reminders are free forever. SwipeClean Pro, a one-time $4.99 purchase, adds the four automatic passes: Smart Cleanup scores every photo on device for sharpness, subject, and faces and puts the worst first; Similar Photos groups near-duplicate bursts side by side with scores; Auto Clean Rules apply standing rules like "screenshots older than six months"; and Supercut turns any album into a montage video cut to the beat of a song from your own library.
Who it's for
Anyone whose iPhone is out of space and who has been putting off the camera roll for years.
What it does
- Swipe left to clean, right to keep — a real card deck with momentum and haptics
- Two-step delete: swipe into a queue, review it as a grid, then confirm
- Deleted photos go to Recently Deleted, recoverable for 30 days
- Start from Screenshots, Videos, Selfies, Live Photos, Favourites, On This Day, or a single month
- Storage dashboard measuring the library by category, before and after
- Undo the last swipe, or flip any decision from the session's full history
- Bulk select mode for clearing an album by tapping rather than swiping
- Share a photo before you delete it — the original file, not a resized copy
- Daily streaks and twelve milestones, from your first hundred photos to five thousand
- Optional cleanup reminders: weekly, fortnightly, or monthly
- No account, no analytics, no advertising, no third-party SDKs
- ProSmart Cleanup scores photos on device to put the worst first
- ProSimilar Photos groups near-duplicate bursts side by side with scores
- ProAuto Clean Rules flag photos before you look
- ProSupercut turns an album into a montage cut to the beat of your music
Behind the build
Two bugs in this one were the same mistake twice: trusting a value that was never there.
Quality scoring read salientObjects off an attention-based Vision request, which never populates it — only the objectness-based request returns boxes — so 40% of every score was silently zero. Sharpness rendered a Laplacian convolution through an 8-bit RGBA buffer, which clamped away every negative value, i.e. half of what a Laplacian produces. Together they made every photo score exactly 0, so "worst first" was arbitrary order and the duplicate-comparison badge read 0% on all four photos in a group including the one it labeled Best. Both now fail loudly instead: if Vision genuinely can't run, the component returns nil and the remaining weights renormalise, rather than a zero pretending to be a measurement.
Information
- Runs on
- iPhone
- Status
- In the lab
- Price
- Planned: Free · Pro $4.99 one-time
- Requires
- iOS 16.0 or later
- Source
- Not public
- Telemetry
- None
- Built with
- SwiftUI, PhotoKit, Vision, AVFoundation, StoreKit 2
- Stack
- SwiftUIPhotoKitVisionAVFoundationStoreKit 2
Works well with
SwipeClean is still in the lab.
Built and running on my machine, but not packaged for release — so there's nothing honest to link to yet. Leave an email and you'll hear when it ships.
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