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Photo Declutter

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A calm daily ritual for your photo library

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A calm daily ritual for your photo library

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A calm daily ritual for your iPhone photo library. Swipe right to keep, left to mark for release. Nothing deleted until you review and confirm. Just short daily sessions, one photo at a time. Built by a solo dev at 50, first Swift app, AI-assisted. No account, no tracking, no data leaves your device. Free forever at 5 minutes; one-time unlock for longer sessions, no subscription ever. Most apps add more to your life. This one helps you let go of a little.

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Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Simon, a UX and web dev based in France. 25 years of ASP, PHP, Python, HTML CSS JavaScript. At 50 I thought Swift was a bridge too far. The idea had been sitting in my head for years: a Tinder-style interface for your photo library. Simple concept, enormous gap between that and a working app. The path was Cursor, then ChatGPT, then Claude (and Claude Code for a final review). What surprised me was that I actually started to understand it all. Photo Declutter is designed as a small daily ritual, not a productivity tool. Calm sessions, one photo at a time, nothing deleted without review. No account, no tracking. I grew up with shareware (Atari ST, PC) and free software (Linux). That philosophy stuck. The app is free to use forever. There are two small in-app purchases, a tip jar and a session unlock, purely as a way to say thanks if it brings you value. No subscription, no paywall, no pressure. Happy to answer anything about the build, the AI-assisted process, or the philosophy behind it.

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Photo Declutter: Against the Accumulation Reflex

There's a pattern worth examining in how we relate to our photo libraries. The average iPhone user has thousands of images. Many are blurry, duplicated, or simply obsolete yet the instinct is rarely to remove. It's to keep, defer, and accumulate. The cognitive cost of deciding feels higher than the cost of storage.

Photo Declutter was built as a direct response to that pattern. The core insight is simple: the problem isn't that people don't want to declutter. It's that the available tools make it feel like a project rather than a practice.

The app reframes the whole thing as a ritual. Short daily sessions at five minutes by default. You just swipe one photo at a time. Keep or release. Nothing is deleted until you've reviewed your choices and confirmed. There's even a 30-day recovery window in iOS's Recently Deleted album as a second safety net. The design is deliberately calm: a zen garden aesthetic, a monk mascot, no notifications demanding action, no aggressive upselling. There are lovely side effects too, like rediscovering old photos and sharing them, or double-tapping them to add them to a specific "rediscovered" album - to build up favourites in a different way.

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