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Clean up your camera roll. Even the 47,000-photo one.

Your camera roll has 47,000 photos. You've tried before. You opened the Photos app, scrolled for 10 minutes, closed it, and felt worse. Manual cleanup doesn't scale — the workflow has to.

1.6k+ people search for this every month. SwipePhotos is built specifically for what they’re trying to do.

The fix

What SwipePhotos does differently.

SwipePhotos breaks your camera roll into monthly decks and gives you one big motion — swipe — instead of two small ones (tap, then confirm). Most people clear a month every 5-8 minutes and finish a decade in a weekend.

Try free — first 10 photos€2.99/mo or €19.99/year. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad and Mac.
How it works

From cluttered to clean, step by step.

  1. 01

    Sort by oldest first

    Old photos are easier to judge — you've already decided whether they mattered.

  2. 02

    Pick one month at a time

    10-15 minutes per month is a sustainable pace. Most people do 3-4 months a sitting.

  3. 03

    Swipe right to keep, left to delete

    Don't deliberate. If you hesitate longer than 2 seconds, swipe right.

  4. 04

    Skip the perfectionism

    You're not curating a museum. You're picking the ones that should still exist next year.

Pricing

Free to try. Coffee money if you finish.

First 10 photos free — no card. Then €2.99/month or €19.99/year. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. No ads, no “Pro” tier, no time-gated unlocks.

€19.99
/year (covers all your devices)
100%
on-device — nothing uploaded
30 days
recovery via Recently Deleted
Questions about this

Good — here are the real answers.

What's the fastest way to clean up an iPhone camera roll?

Process photos in time-bounded batches. Open the oldest month, swipe through it in one sitting, then stop. Going chronologically beats trying to clean "everything" because you can see the trip / event / season as a unit. SwipePhotos enforces this workflow automatically.

How long does it take to clean up 10,000 photos?

Most SwipePhotos users average 5-8 minutes per 100 photos, which works out to about 8-12 hours total for a 10,000-photo library. Most people split that across a long weekend, doing 2-3 hours per session.

Will I lose photos I want to keep?

No — deletions go to Apple's Recently Deleted album for 30 days. You can recover any photo during that window with one tap. SwipePhotos also has an in-app undo button that rolls back your last 20 swipes inside a session.

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Finish in a weekend, not "someday".
Today, not someday.

Free to try. From €2.99/month or €19.99/year. Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac. 100% on-device.