--- title: "Swipr — Swipe to clean up your iPhone photos, with on-device AI search" description: "Swipr is a photo clean-up app for iPhone and iPad. Swipe right to keep a photo, left to move it to Trash. Smart Clean Up shows the photos you're likely to delete first and says why. On-device AI finds photos by what they show, the text in them, where and when they were taken, or what looks similar, groups duplicates and suggests albums and trips. Nothing is deleted until you empty Trash, and your photos never leave your device." canonical: https://swipr.photo/ last_updated: 2026-10-13 --- # Swipr — Swipe to clean up your iPhone photos, with on-device AI search > Swipr is a photo clean-up app for iPhone and iPad. Swipe right to keep a photo, left to move it to Trash. Smart Clean Up shows the photos you're likely to delete first and says why. On-device AI finds photos by what they show, the text in them, where and when they were taken, or what looks similar, groups duplicates and suggests albums and trips. Nothing is deleted until you empty Trash, and your photos never leave your device. - Platform: iPhone and iPad, iOS 26 / iPadOS 26 or later - Price: free with ads; Swipr Pro is a one-time in-app purchase that removes all ads (no subscription) - Availability: coming soon on the App Store - Website: https://swipr.photo/ - Privacy policy: https://swipr.photo/privacy - Terms of service: https://swipr.photo/terms - Made by: Alexander Pritsert, independent developer (https://swipr.photo/about) - Contact: allexp@gmail.com (https://swipr.photo/contact) ## How it works 1. **Swipe right to keep.** The photo stays where it is and the next one appears. 2. **Swipe left to let go.** The photo moves to Swipr's Trash. Undo is one tap away. 3. **Empty Trash when you are ready.** Nothing leaves your photo library before that, and iOS keeps deleted photos in Recently Deleted for 30 days. ## Features - **Swipe to sort.** One photo at a time: swipe right to keep it, left to move it to Swipr's Trash. Undo is one tap away. - **Smart Clean Up.** The photos you're likely to delete first come first, each with a small reason chip such as "Blurry", "Dark", "Document", "4 similar shots", "Screenshot · 2023" or "Large". You still swipe every photo: nothing is deleted, moved or hidden automatically. It uses Apple's Vision framework on the device, with no download, and one switch in Settings turns it off. - **Learns from your swipes.** Smart Clean Up learns from what you keep and delete on cards that showed a reason. A reason you mostly keep stops pushing photos forward and, after enough swipes, stops showing its chip; Undo takes a lesson back, and Settings can reset what it learned. - **Screenshots that have done their job.** From a screenshot's text, read on the device, Swipr spots old one-time codes, tickets whose date has passed and delivery updates, and brings them forward. A screenshot that seems to show a card number, an IBAN, or a password or recovery code is marked "May be sensitive": advice to consider deleting it, which never moves it forward. Text read for this is never stored. - **Trash you control.** Nothing leaves your library until you empty Trash. Swipr asks you to review Trash after the number of days you choose (7, 14, 30, 60 or 90; 30 by default). - **AI photo search.** Describe a scene, such as "sunset over the hills", and Swipr finds matching photos. It uses Google's open EmbeddingGemma 2 model (text and vision, 440M parameters), an optional one-time 388 MB download that runs entirely on the device. You choose what Photo Search covers: Pictures, Text in photos, Videos and Voice search; only Pictures and Videos need the download. - **Text in photos.** Find words in receipts, signs and screenshots with Apple's built-in text recognition, on the device. No download needed. - **Video search.** Search inside videos by what they show, from a few frames of each video, with the same on-device model. - **Find similar.** Pick any photo and see the photos that look like it, matched by the Photo Search model on the device. - **Understand longer searches.** On iPhones and iPads with Apple Intelligence, Apple's on-device model turns a longer search, such as "the receipt from the Italian restaurant last month", into place, date and type filters plus the words to search by meaning. The filters show as chips you can remove. Short searches use Swipr's own rules, and a switch in Settings turns it off. It runs on the device only: nothing is sent anywhere, and Swipr does not save the search or the model's answer. - **Duplicates.** Near-identical shots are grouped, and with Smart Clean Up on Swipr marks the best shot of each group. "Keep best, review the rest" moves the others to Trash for review. Duplicates works without the AI model too: with Smart Clean Up on, Swipr finds similar shots with Apple's Vision framework. - **Search by place, date, type and camera.** Type "selfies in London", "night photos from last summer", "panoramas" or "taken with iPhone 12", or pick from the filter menu in Search and Library. Chips show what Swipr understood, and each can be removed. It works without the AI model; with Photo Search on, "dog on the beach in Spain 2023" also matches the scene. Date and type words are English for now. - **Places, offline.** Swipr reads where, when and how each photo was taken on the device and names the place with a list of cities built into the app (from GeoNames, CC BY 4.0). Your photos' locations are never sent anywhere, not even to look up a place name. The viewer shows the place and the camera. Settings › Places and photo details turns it off and deletes what Swipr read. - **Voice search, Siri and Shortcuts.** Speak a search: Apple's on-device speech recognition turns it into text, and your voice never leaves the device. Or say "Clean up photos in Swipr" or "Search photos in Swipr". Albums can be opened from Siri and found in Spotlight. - **Albums by swiping.** Open an album and swipe through your photos: right adds a photo, left skips it. With Photo Search on, likely matches come first; a date range narrows the choice. Up to 100 albums of 1,000 photos each. - **Suggested albums.** With Photo Search on, Swipr finds groups in your library on the device, such as pets, beaches, food, receipts, screenshots or sunsets, and offers each as an album. - **Suggested trips.** Swipr spots trips away from home in your photos' places and dates, such as "Lisbon · May 2025", and offers each as an album. Trips need no AI model. Home is worked out on the device and never stored or shown. - **Smart albums.** Describe an album once, such as "beach and sea", and it fills with matching photos and keeps updating as new photos are indexed. Rules by place, date, type or camera, such as "Japan 2024" or "selfies", need no AI model. - **Library.** Every photo Swipr can see, newest first and grouped by month, with Jump to for any month. A full-screen viewer swipes between photos, zooms up to 3x and plays videos; any photo can be shared, added to an album or moved to Trash. On iPad and the foldable iPhone the months sit in a sidebar. - **Daily goal and streaks.** Set a daily goal, keep a streak, and see how much storage you have freed. - **Private by design.** Photos, search indexes and app data stay on the device. Swipr has no account and no server that stores photos. ## On-device AI Everything happens on the device, and nothing is uploaded. - **Pictures.** Describe a scene, "sunset over the hills", and Swipr finds it. Powered by Google's open EmbeddingGemma 2 model, an optional one-time 388 MB download that runs on the device. - **Text in photos.** Find the words on receipts, signs and screenshots with Apple's built-in text recognition. No download. - **Videos.** Search inside your videos by what they show, with the same model. - **Voice search.** Speak your search. Apple's on-device speech recognition turns it into text, and your voice never leaves the device. - **Understand longer searches.** On devices with Apple Intelligence, Apple's on-device model turns a longer search, "the receipt from the Italian restaurant last month", into filters you can remove. - **Find similar.** Pick any photo and see the ones that look like it, with the Photo Search model. - **Places and details.** "Selfies in London" or "Japan 2024": search by place, date, photo type and camera. No download. - **Suggested and smart albums.** Swipr spots groups such as pets, beaches or sunsets and offers each as an album, and a smart album described once keeps filling itself. Smart albums by place, date, type or camera need no download. - **Trips.** Trips away from home, such as "Lisbon · May 2025", are suggested from your photos' places and dates. No download. - **Duplicates.** Near-identical shots are grouped, with the best one marked. No download. - **Smart Clean Up.** Apple's Vision framework puts the likely deletes first and says why: blurry, dark, similar shots, old screenshots, old codes, past tickets. It learns from your swipes. No download. ## Frequently asked questions ### What is Swipr? Swipr is a photo clean-up app for iPhone and iPad. It shows your photos one at a time: swipe right to keep a photo, swipe left to move it to Trash. Smart Clean Up shows the photos you're likely to delete first and says why. Its on-device AI can also find photos by what they show, the text in them, where and when they were taken, or what looks similar, and group duplicates. ### Does Swipr upload my photos? No. Swipr never uploads your photos. Sorting, Smart Clean Up, AI search, text recognition, voice search, place search, understanding longer searches and duplicate detection all run on your iPhone or iPad. Places are named with a list of cities built into the app, so your photos' locations are never sent anywhere. The only download is the optional AI search model, and that request contains no photos or personal data. ### What does Smart Clean Up do? It puts the photos you're likely to delete first, such as blurry or dark shots, similar shots, documents, large files, old screenshots, old codes, past tickets and delivery updates, and shows the reason on a small chip. You still swipe every photo: nothing is deleted automatically. It learns from what you keep and delete, runs on the device with Apple's Vision framework and no download, and one switch in Settings turns it off. ### Are photos deleted as soon as I swipe left? No. A left swipe moves the photo to Swipr's Trash, and you can undo it. Photos are only deleted when you empty Trash, and iOS then keeps them in Recently Deleted in the Photos app for 30 days. ### How does the AI photo search work? When you turn on Pictures search, Swipr downloads Google's open EmbeddingGemma 2 model once (388 MB) and builds a search index on your device, by default only while it is charging. You then type or speak a description such as "dog on the beach" and Swipr shows the photos that match. Text in photos uses Apple's built-in text recognition and needs no download. ### What does Understand longer searches do? On an iPhone or iPad with Apple Intelligence, Swipr can hand a longer search, such as "the receipt from the Italian restaurant last month", to Apple's on-device model, which turns it into place, date and type filters plus the words to search by meaning. The filters show as chips you can remove. Short searches use Swipr's own rules and never wait for the model. Everything happens on the device, and nothing is uploaded; Swipr does not save the search or the model's answer. The switch is in Settings and only appears on devices with Apple Intelligence. ### Does the AI search need an internet connection? Only once, to download the model. After that, indexing and searching work offline, on the device. ### Can I search by place without the AI model? Yes. Search by place, date, photo type and camera needs only photo access: type "Lisbon 2023" or "selfies", or use the filter menu. Swipr reads each photo's location on the device and names it with a list of cities built into the app, so nothing is sent anywhere. Smart albums with these rules and suggested trips work without the model too. ### How much does Swipr cost? Swipr is free, with a few ads at natural pauses. Swipr Pro is a one-time in-app purchase that removes all ads. There is no subscription. ### Which devices does Swipr support? iPhone and iPad with iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 or later. The layout also adapts to the larger and foldable iPhone displays. ### Are Swipr albums the same as albums in the Photos app? No. Swipr keeps its own albums, so your albums in the Photos app are never changed. Deleting a Swipr album leaves its photos in your library. You can share an album's photos, and open an album with Siri or Spotlight. ### Can I try Swipr without giving it access to my photos? Yes. If you decline photo access, Swipr offers a set of sample photos so you can try swiping, Trash, albums and search. You can also give Swipr access to selected photos only. ### When is Swipr available? Swipr is coming soon on the App Store. ### Who makes Swipr, and how do I get in touch? Swipr is made by Alexander Pritsert, an independent developer. For support, privacy questions or feedback, email allexp@gmail.com.