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Charlie Irish

Gemini Photos - Clean up your Camera Roll

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Ever wondered where your iPhone storage goes? Most of it is probably useless photos, like those 20 pics you took to get one perfect shot. With Gemini Photos, you can keep just the good ones and remove similar shots, blurred pics, and other clutter in few taps

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Pavlo Pedenko
How cool is that. Waiting for Android version :)
Julia Petryk
Maker
Lisa Dziuba
@graver_ua @ua_philka need it for Android too!
Alex Kukharenko
@graver_ua Android app would be great!
Alexander Yemelianov
MacPaw
Maker
Hi, Product Hunters! Many thanks to @charlieirish for hunting Gemini Photos and to all of you for upvoting it. You may know one of our top apps is Gemini 2, a duplicate finder for Mac. It’s the users of that app who came up with the idea for this one. When talking to them, we discovered they mainly used Gemini 2 to sort out photos, and the improvement they wanted was the ability to do the same on iPhone. So we built Gemini Photos, an iPhone app for — you guessed it, photos that look alike. This is what Gemini Photos does: suggests you the best photo out of several similar shots lets you quickly delete the rest detects and helps remove blurred photos, screenshots, and photos of text lets you delete all iPhone photos if you want to P.S. We know it can be scary to let an app mess with your photos, because you might lose memorable shots, but don’t worry: Gemini Photos only suggests you what to delete, the final choice is always yours. Enjoy!
Rich Peterson
AI or VA?
@ymlnv great use of P.S. to address primary concern
Shan Han
@charlieirish @ymlnv Awesome! I'm a big fan of Gemini 2 and also use it to sort pictures. Well done turning it into a product, super useful!
Martin Pannier
@charlieirish @ymlnv First thoughts after scanning 70k photos: - "Similar" is really unreliable. It said a photo of a friend and me, and a photo of the same friend and my girlfriend, on a scenic backdrop, were "similar" and one of the 2 should be deleted. - Since I can't trust the "Similar" section, would be great if the app could separate out true duplicates - same photo but maybe with different metadata - from "similar" photos. Cleaning up the 1st mess would also allow to clean the 2nd more easily. A sort by "how much I trust this app" if you will. Cheers
Eric M.
@charlieirish @ymlnv I have long been searching for a duplicate finder that is smart about albums. For example: I have two photos that are identical, A and B. Photo A is in three different albums, photo B is in one album. Can you delete photo A and then put photo B in all the albums where A appeared?
Andrii Tkachenko
MacPaw
Ok, its work for duplicate photos of 😸 But what about 🐕 ?
Alice Kotlyarenko
MacPaw
Maker
@tkachenko We tested the app, and it worked for photos of cats, dogs, bunnies, parrots, mini pigs, pet iguanas, and the absolute majority of wildlife, so you're pretty much covered 😸
Grzegorz Hadała
This is great! Worth the money :D Beautiful utility app. One thing: I had 510 photos selected and I pressed "Delete" by accident. Happily there was another dialog to access photos from iCloud and I revoked the access. Maybe an additional prompt ("Are you REALLY sure?") when you have more than 100, 200, 300 photos to delete? Nice work!
Alice Kotlyarenko
MacPaw
Maker
@greghadala Thank you for the suggestion! There's always an additional system confirmation when you're deleting photos, so don't worry :) Plus, they go to Recently Deleted, so even if you tap the confirmation by accident, you'll easily recover the photos.
Dmytro Bilkun
MacPaw
Maker
Before developing the app we did some market research, and over 50% of iPhone users said they had redundant photos. We decided to focus on major types of those: blurred photos, stuff like screenshots and photos of text (which you typically take to share with someone and then forget to delete), and of course, our specialty inherited from Gemini 2 — similar photos. The trickiest part was “teaching” the app to tell good shots from not-so-good ones. Gemini Photos uses computer vision to detect what’s in the image — specifically faces and smiles, which are important criteria. To identify photos of text and such, the app uses Apple’s Core ML.
Kseniia Rastvorova

It's an easy way to delete TONS of duplicates... I often experience problems when I have to choose one photo of a sunset, of my dog or of me! And Gemini Photos is a great solution, thank you guys!

Pros:

Helps to clean up my photo library!

Cons:

takes a while to scan my 24 000 photos library

Alexandra Tonkonog
Cool promo video:)
Lisa Dziuba
@alexandra_tonkonog they have awesome promo videos and awesome cats 🐱 🐱 🐱
Dmytro Bilkun
MacPaw
Maker
Sergey Pirogov
Great idea! Finally, I can clean my iPhone 🤗
Dmytro Bilkun
MacPaw
Maker
@perpetuous Awesome, thanks. Will be looking forward to hearing your feedback.
Chad Reiser
The very first screen is “subscribe now for $1.99 / month.” So I swiftly deleted it. Give me a taste of what it can do before forcing me into a reoccurring subscription. PersInally, I would have used thIs app only once and then deleted It. I cant justIfy a monthly subscriptIon for my personal use.
Dmytro Bilkun
MacPaw
Maker
@chad_reiser Hi! Thanks for feedback. Our idea was to offer you a free trial from the start so you could experience the app with full access. Our intention was not to force you to subscribe but rather suggest. We will work on improving this flow and make it more clear and frictionless. Thanks again.
Louis de Vaumas
@chad_reiser @dmytro_bilkun Same here. I just wasn't ready for a subscription. I would happily pay 5€ for an app like this, but not a monthly subscription.
Valia Havryliuk
one of the most helpful features for girls, I think :) You shouldn't choose one of the best photos by yourself anymore, Gemini Photos will do it instead of you! Love it!
Dmytro Bilkun
MacPaw
Maker
@valiahavruliyk Thank you 😎 Really hope it will work out great for you.
Lisa Dziuba
Dmytro Bilkun
MacPaw
Maker
@valiahavruliyk @lisadziuba Looking good 😎 With Gemini Photos It's all about having 'space' on your iPhone after all [bad alien joke, sorry]
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