Beautifully designed app for discarding similar/duplicate photos. Looks like a good app to me.
Note: App crashes frequently on the current version if the photo library is too big. Hopefully developer will fix it in the future update. I have tested it on my iPhone and it works perfectly for me.
This is a dream come true. With about 150gb of photos on my phone it started so well, grouping similar photos, bursts etc then crash… and crash again…
The people who will want use this most are those whose photo libraries are too big… that’s a bit annoying.
What kind of personal information is this ripping / uploading to a server?
If correctly done, it should not require any personal data to the functionality of the app.
But yeah no free lunches 😅
Their privacy policy seems pretty good too, doesn’t look like to collect any personal information. Check DNS proxy log for testing the app privacy credentials.
I don't know how people can trust an application to go through their photos and remove duplicates. What if this application gets it wrong and deletes the wrong images?
Unsure how this one works, but any duplicate finder should allow each and every match to be compared prior to deletion. Certainly any tool I've ever used did it this way.
Backups and recently deleted items
If you backup to iCloud, all photos that are deleted can be restored from the icloud.com website.
or the google photos app
Why would you pay for iCloud to backup your photos if Google Photos does it for free?
Google doesn’t do it at full resolution.
A number of reasons:
1) Free version of Google Photos doesn't store originals.
I have the 2TB iCloud plan so I can store all my original RAW photos in the cloud.
2) I don't trust Google. Not here to debate, I just don't trust them with ANY of my data. I do trust Apple.
3) Ecosystem, I am invested heavily in the Apple ecosystem and want to be able to make non-destructive photos edits on any of my devices with the native apple tools, iCloud allows me to do this and preserve the original RAW files and everything is synced and backed up.
@DiSTURBED-oNE: Google allows storing photos captured in iOS in original quality. And does this app even support RAW?
@elektron: The free tier of Google Photos only allows you to store originals of photos shot from your iOS device using HEIF.
Photos shot on a DSLR or Mirrorless camera and then imported to your iOS device or mac get compressed and then uploaded when using free Google Photos.
With iCloud, your original RAW files get uploaded and preserved.
This way you can use lightroom on your iPad or the built-in photos app to make non-destructive edits.
@DiSTURBED-oNE: That's a fairly niche (semi-pro) use-case. For 99% of iPhone users Google Photos will do the job. Google's search AI for photos and videos is also ridiculously good.
@elektron: I don't think its that niche, either way, the question was "Why would you pay for iCloud to backup your photos if Google Photos does it for free?" and I answered it.
Also, the photo search in iCloud photos is also super good and what's better, it is done on device.
If you are O365 subscriber than OneDrive is much better option
You can just go to recently deleted and restore the deleted photos.
Crashes at 30%
14k pictures
Meh app
I have 10k pictures. No crashes so far.
All your photos uploaded to their cloud for their use…
While we’re on this topic…
Does anyone know a good Windows OS way to review a huge iPhone photos library and delete/tidy it up?
What I normally do is to backup all photos to Google Photos (free)
then delete those old ones using the iOS Photo "Year" or "Month" Select All function
That's exactly what I do. The only thing with this method is, I don't get to keep the highest resolution but still everything gets backed up properly and phone is always free from thousands of photos. Another thing I do is, transfer anything important straightaway. So, I can have it in the resolution I shot with.
Yea, I did a similar approach
I create albums on special occasions like birthday party, or an overseas trip
Then backup into my Synology NAS (which also do a off-site backup to Amazon Glacier)
Am I interpreting it correctly that Amazon Glacier is effectively free unless you download more than 1GB of your data per month?
@Master Bates: If effectively free = $0, then no.
S3 Glacier ** - For long-term backups and archives with retrieval option from 1 minute to 12 hours
All Storage / Month $0.005 per GBS3 Glacier Deep Archive ** - For long-term data archiving that is accessed once or twice in a year and can be restored within 12 hours
All Storage / Month $0.002 per GB
the above is SYD region and for example, 5TB would cost US$25.6 in S3 Glacier and US$10.24 in S3 Glacier Deep Archive.
@Master Bates: AWS Glacier pricing model is a bit complicated
They are charging fees on Upload request, Transfer, storage and retrieve (download)
https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/
I remember the first time I upload around 400GB was being charged 20-30 bucks
then each month I paid around $8 AUD
I am looking to clear my (near full) cloud storage to my Synology Nas. Was going to download my content to a PC and do it that way.
How are you backing up a phone to your Syno NAS?
edit
Just googled and found this. Will try it.
https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/Mobile/help…
App keeps crashing after a few seconds. Anyone know of similar apps that work?
same…useless if everyone having same issue
Gemini works like a dream. I even paid for life time edition because it works soo well
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/gemini-photos-gallery-cleaner/…
Seems quite highly rated app
However their subscription seems pretty expensive :(
Install and wait a couple of minutes. A notification will come offering half price lifetime which was around $20 still a bit pricey but I use it a lot for cleaning up screen shots and multiple photos I end out taking of the family.
It does a really good job.
I've tried a bunch of these apps over the years, and the only I've found to work quickly and with a large library is photosweeper lite:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photosweeper-lite/id506150103?…
But that's a Mac app isn't it, rather than an ios app?
![[iOS] Duplicate Photos Sweeper Free (Was US$6.99, No IAPs or Ads)](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/28/549928.jpg?h=45e1d23d)
Keeps crashing