Duplicates“twins”
The same shot saved twice — shared back to you, re-downloaded, or burst-fired. Perceptual hashing catches them even when the files differ.
100% on-device
Clean your photos,
one swipe at a time.
SwipeDrop finds the duplicates, blurry shots, screenshots and forgotten videos clogging your camera roll — then lets you clear them the way you scroll. Swipe left to drop, right to keep. Not one photo ever leaves your phone.
- No account
- No upload
- No ads or trackers
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4.6 MB · 4032 × 3024
Nothing queued yet
9
kinds of clutter found automatically
0
photos uploaded, ever
1 tap
to clear an entire reviewed batch
3-day
free trial on everything
Where you start
You never have to decide where to begin.
Open the app and your library is already triaged. Every pile shows how many photos are in it and roughly how much space clearing it would give you back — so you can spend your ten minutes where it counts.
- A hero card that points at whichever pile will free the most space right now
- Half-finished sessions waiting at the top, so you never lose your place
- Your whole library broken down month by month, and album by album
How it works
Three steps. Nothing disappears by accident.
The whole design assumes you'll change your mind. Swiping only stages a decision — deleting is a separate, deliberate step you take when you're ready.
Swipe left to drop, right to keep 01Swipe
Left drops it, right keeps it. One photo at a time, no menus, no checkboxes. Change your mind and undo — the last card comes right back.
Everything you dropped, before it goes 02Review
Nothing is deleted while you swipe. Your drops collect in a review grid where you can look at every one again and pull anything back out.
One tap clears the batch 03Free up space
One confirmation clears the whole batch — a single system prompt instead of one per photo. On iPhone they land in Recently Deleted, so there's still a 30-day safety net.
Leave in the middle and nothing is lost. Half-finished decisions are saved on your device and waiting on the home screen when you come back — pick up where you left off, or keep them all and start over.
What it finds
Nine ways your camera roll gets messy.
SwipeDrop sorts your library into piles worth clearing, so you're never staring at 12,000 photos wondering where to start. Each one opens straight into a deck.
Similar“near-misses”
Eleven takes of the same moment. SwipeDrop groups them so you can keep the one you actually want and drop the rest.
Large files“space hogs”
The handful of files quietly eating gigabytes. Sorted biggest first, so a few swipes move the needle.
Videos“videos”
Usually the single biggest thing in a camera roll. Filter by size, length or 4K and clear the ones you'll never watch again.
Blurry“misfires”
Shots that came out soft, found by measuring actual image sharpness — not by guessing from the filename.
Screenshots“screenshots”
Receipts, memes, directions, that one Wi-Fi password. Useful for a day, then clutter forever.
On this day“memories”
Photos taken on today's date in past years. Look back, keep the best, let the rest go.
Recents“just taken”
Everything from the last 20 days, while you still remember which one was the good one.
Shuffle“anything”
No plan, no pressure. Take a random pass through photos, videos, screenshots or Live Photos.
Plus albums, month-by-month browsing, and a “From apps” pile for everything WhatsApp, Instagram and Telegram saved to your roll without asking.
Under the hood
It actually looks at your photos.
Most cleaners match on file size and date and call it a duplicate. SwipeDrop compares the images themselves — on your device, with no server in the loop.
- Perceptual hashing, not filenames
- Every photo gets a fingerprint derived from what it actually looks like. Two copies of the same shot match even when the files are different sizes, different formats, or renamed by whatever app re-saved them.
- A distance, not a yes or no
- Fingerprints get compared bit by bit. A tiny difference means a duplicate; a slightly larger one means a near-miss from the same burst. That's why “Duplicates” and “Similar” are two separate piles instead of one unreliable guess.
- Sharpness is measured, not assumed
- Blurry shots are found by scoring the actual edge detail in the image. Motion blur, a missed focus, a photo through a car window — they score low and surface together.
- It runs in the background
- The heavy analysis happens on spare threads while you use the app. Your library is browsable within a second or two; the deeper piles fill in behind you.
Match
Fingerprinta3f1 08c7 5b2e d904
Difference4 bits
VerdictDuplicate
Illustrative. The comparison itself never leaves your device — no image, no fingerprint, and no filename is sent anywhere.
Optimize
Reclaim space without losing the photo.
Some things you don't want to delete — you just want them to stop taking up gigabytes. Optimize shrinks them in place and leaves the moment intact.
Video compression
A fraction of the size. Same video.
Videos are almost always the biggest thing in a camera roll. Pick Small, Balanced or Best quality, see the projected saving before you start, and watch the progress as it runs.
Original · 1:48 · 4K · 1.0 GB
Small
14.1 MB
Balanced
33.8 MB
Best
78.9 MB
Originals are replaced only after you approve the result.
Live Photos
Keep the picture, drop the video.
Every Live Photo carries three seconds of video you'll almost certainly never play. Convert a batch to stills and keep the frame you actually wanted.
67 selected · 3 seconds of video each
Kept
Full-res still
Dropped
~280 MB
The photo itself is untouched — only the motion clip goes.
No photo ever leaves your phone.
That isn't a policy we promise to follow — it's how the app is built. SwipeDrop has no backend to send anything to. The only network connection it makes at all is to the app store's billing service, to check whether you have a subscription.
Processing happens on your phone
Fingerprinting, blur scoring, grouping — all of it runs locally on your device. There is no server doing the thinking.
No account, no cloud, no upload
You never sign up, and there is nowhere for your photos to go. Open the app and start; that's the whole flow.
No analytics, no trackers, no ads
No third-party analytics SDK, no advertising identifier, no behavioural profile. Nothing about how you use the app is collected.
Deletes are reversible for 30 days
On iPhone, everything you clear goes to Recently Deleted first. On Android you confirm every batch before it happens.
Progress
A cleanup you can actually finish.
Twelve thousand photos is a wall. Ten minutes on the sofa is not. SwipeDrop keeps score so a stack of small sessions adds up to something visible.
Space freed, all time
The number that makes it worth it
Photos cleaned
Counted across every session
Day streak
Five minutes a day beats one heroic afternoon
Scrolling saved
Every photo you drop is one you never scroll past again
Your records outlive the photos: a 14-day activity chart, your best day, your biggest single cleanup, and a breakdown of exactly where the space came from.
Pricing
Free to clean. Pro to go all night.
The free version is a real photo cleaner, not a demo — every detection pile is open to you from day one. Pro removes the daily ceiling and unlocks the space-saving tools.
Free
Install and start swiping. No account, no card.
- Every pile: duplicates, similar, blurry, screenshots, large files, videos, memories
- Your first cleanup runs uninterrupted, up to 100 photos
- A daily delete allowance after that (currently 30 a day)
- Keeping photos is never limited — swipe right as much as you like
- The full review-before-delete flow, undo included
SwipeDrop Pro
3 days freeUnlimited swipes. Duplicates, blur and look-alikes, all on-device.
- Unlimited deletes, every day, no ceiling
- Video compression — Small, Balanced or Best quality
- Live Photo → Still conversion in batches
- Everything in Free, with nothing interrupting you
- 3 days free, then cancel any time from your app store
Weekly, monthly and yearly plans are shown in the app — pricing varies by region, so your store shows the exact amount before you confirm.
FAQ
The reasonable questions.
Mostly variations on “am I going to lose my photos?” — which is the right thing to ask of anything that deletes for a living.
Can SwipeDrop delete a photo without me meaning to?
No. Swiping left doesn't delete anything — it puts the photo in a queue. Those photos wait on a review screen where you can see every one of them and pull any back out. Only when you tap the delete button does anything actually get removed, and your phone still asks you to confirm.
Are my photos uploaded or sent anywhere?
No. There is no server involved. Finding duplicates, scoring blur and grouping similar shots all happen on your phone. SwipeDrop has no account system and nowhere to upload to; its only network connection is to your app store's billing service to check whether you have a subscription.
Can I get a photo back after I delete it?
On iPhone, deleted photos go to Recently Deleted in the Photos app and stay there for 30 days, so you can restore anything from there. On Android, you confirm each batch before it's removed, and photos go to your gallery's trash where your device supports one.
Does deleting in SwipeDrop delete from iCloud too?
If you have iCloud Photos turned on, your library is synced across your devices, so a photo you delete on your phone is removed everywhere — exactly as it would be if you deleted it in the Photos app. It lands in Recently Deleted first, on every device, for 30 days.
How does it find duplicates?
It gives each photo a fingerprint based on the image itself, then compares those fingerprints. That's why it catches the same shot saved twice even when the two files have different names, sizes or formats. Photos that are close but not identical — the eleven takes of one moment — go into a separate Similar pile instead.
Is SwipeDrop free?
Yes. Every detection pile is available free, your first cleanup runs uninterrupted for up to 100 photos, and keeping photos is never limited. After that the free version has a daily delete allowance. Pro removes the limit and adds video compression and Live Photo conversion, with a 3-day free trial.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Because everything runs on your device, SwipeDrop works with no connection at all. You only need the internet to start or restore a subscription.
How long does it take on a large library?
Your library is browsable within a couple of seconds — SwipeDrop reads the basics first and starts the deeper image analysis in the background. Duplicate and blur piles fill in behind you while you're already swiping through screenshots or large files.
Which phones does it run on?
iPhone and Android. It's the same app on both, with the platform's own delete behaviour respected on each.
Will it mess with my albums?
No. SwipeDrop reads your albums so you can clean them one at a time, but it never creates, renames or reorganises them. The only change it makes to your library is removing the photos you chose to remove.
Something not covered here? Head to support.
Guides
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Your camera roll isn’t going to clean itself.
Ten minutes and a thumb. Start with the duplicates and see how much comes back.
Free to download · 3-day trial on Pro · Nothing leaves your phone