Sift

Your camera roll, one photo at a time.

Swipe right to keep, left to bin. Sift walks you through your photos month by month, finds the near-identical shots, and deletes nothing until you say so.

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A month of photos, sorted in minutes.

How it works

No folders, no settings to learn. You look at each photo once and decide.

  1. Step one

    Pick where to start

    Carry on with the month you're halfway through, choose any month from the calendar, or just shuffle.

  2. Step two

    Swipe

    One photo at a time, full screen. Not sure? Save it for later. Changed your mind? Undo.

    Right · keepLeft · binUp · later

  3. Step three

    Review, then delete

    See everything you binned in one grid and rescue anything you didn't mean to. Then one tap clears them all.

Made for big camera rolls

Whether it's a few hundred photos or tens of thousands.

Similar shots
Five tries at the same picture? Sift groups near-identical photos taken moments apart, stars the best one, and lets you bin the rest in one go.
Endless shuffle
Random keeps dealing photos from anywhere in your library for as long as you want to keep going.
Month by month
A calendar shows which months are sorted and how many photos are left in the rest.
On This Day
Photos from this date in years gone by: a gentler place to start.
Videos too
Tap a video to play it before you decide. Live Photos, screenshots and panoramas are all in there.
A daily goal and a streak
Sort 50 a day and watch the ring fill. Miss a day and one freeze a week keeps your streak alive. Every session ends with a summary of what you sorted and the space you freed.
Nothing gone by accident
Binning only marks a photo. Deleted photos wait in Recently Deleted for 30 days.

Free to try. £9.99 once.

Sort your first 250 photos free, with every feature. If Sift earns its place, one payment unlocks it for good.

£9.99one-off

  • No subscription, ever
  • Shared with your family through Family Sharing
  • Anything you've marked can always be deleted for free

Nothing leaves your phone

Sift has no server. Your photos, your choices and your stats stay on your iPhone.

Even finding similar shots happens on the phone itself, using Apple's built-in image analysis. Sift never uploads a photo, never asks you to sign in, and never shows you an advert.

Read the privacy policy

  • No account or sign-in
  • No adverts, no tracking, no analytics
  • Works offline
  • Only deletes when you confirm

Questions?

The support page answers the common ones, and has a way to get in touch.

Go to support