Sift
iPhone & iPad
Clear your camera roll fast.
You have thousands of photos you will never look at again, and no realistic way to get through them. Scrolling doesn't work — there's no end to it, and nothing to show for the time you spent.
Sift shows you one photo at a time, full screen. Decide in a second. The photo disappears, the next one appears, and the counter goes down. That's the whole app.
One gesture per photo
Every gesture also has a button, so nothing in Sift is gesture-only.
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Swipe up to delete
Goes to a pile you can review and edit. Nothing leaves your library until you say so.
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Swipe left to keep
The commonest outcome gets the easiest motion. Kept photos won't come back around.
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Swipe right to undo
Takes back whatever you just did and steps you back a photo. Every action is reversible.
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Drop onto an album
The album tray sits along the bottom. Tap one, or drag the photo onto it, to file it away.
Built so you can actually finish
It remembers where you got to
Close Sift mid-session and it reopens on the exact next photo. Photos you've already dealt with never come back, so the pile only ever gets smaller.
Nothing is deleted until you say so, twice
Photos you swipe away land in a pile you can review and edit. When you're ready, they're deleted in one go — one confirmation for the whole batch, not one per photo.
Find the near-duplicates
Sift compares photos taken moments apart — burst frames, the three attempts at the same shot — and shows them side by side so you can keep the best one.
Everything stays on your device
No account, no server, no analytics. Sift never sends your photos anywhere, and it has no network code of its own at all.
Works the way you need it to
Full VoiceOver support, every text size including the accessibility sizes, and Reduce Motion. On iPad it runs in any orientation, with keyboard shortcuts.
Free, with nothing to buy
No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads, no locked features and no free-tier photo limit. The whole app, free.
About reclaimed space. Deleting photos on iOS moves them to Recently Deleted, where they sit for 30 days before your storage actually frees up. Sift says so plainly in the app rather than implying you got the space back straight away.
Coming to the App Store
Sift is in final testing. Until it's out, the support page covers how it works, and the privacy policy covers what it does with your photos — which is nothing beyond what you ask it to.