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Show HN: AI Photo Cleaner iOS app (on-device processing)

2•nicklewers•1h ago
Hi HN,

I've recently published my first iOS app to the Appstore! Its a photo cleanup app which uses on-device Apple Vision models to cluster similar images together into groups, and then ranks each photo within each group.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/app/ai-photo-cleaner-sorter/id6754172...

How it works: The best photo from each group gets marked as "Saved" by default, however in the Review stage, you can select others from the group to save if you want or unselect the "Best" one and choose another one to keep. The general concept is "keep the best, remove the rest", and in theory if you agree with the clustering/scoring and didn't want to make any amendments, you could clean up 100's of photos (and MBs) with just a few taps.

Motivation: I'm one of those people who somehow builds up an insanely bloated camera roll - 15 photos of the same restaurant dish, 10 versions of the same sunset. So I initially built this for myself to help cleanup those 500 photos taken during a 1 week vacation... I've tried a load of the other apps out there, but most seem to have adopted a Tinder style process - swipe left, swipe right, which hardly decreases the workload. I wanted an opinionated way to do a mass cleanup easily.

Things on my roadmap: - Localisation for major languages - Improved background processing (so you can clean up 1,000+ photos without keeping the app open) - User preferences for how the photo scoring is calculated i.e. some people value emotional signals over image sharpness.

Its totally free to use (maybe one day I'll try and monetise it, if I'm ever fully satisfied )), I'd love any feedback - good and bad! (Especially would appreciate feedback on how well the grouping and scoring performs for you - any quirks?)

Thanks! Nick

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aanet•1h ago
Kudos on the launch.

This would be useful for somebody like me (254 GB out of 256 GB used!)

Would love to hear more about how the on-device AI model works... What is it? What does it look for ? how does it score? How does the user specify which are "similar photos to look at" ? etc etc .

Thanks

nicklewers•1h ago
Thanks! So yeah its all on-device using Apples Vision framework. I use feature prints and embeddings + face counts + person counts + a few other properties to cluster similar photos, then score each one based on sharpness, exposure, face clarity, composition, emotional score, and Apple’s aesthetic score. Each of those is weighted a bit differently.

You don’t need to define “similar” yourself, you select i.e. 100 photos from your library, then it figures that out the groups by itself, and there’s the review screen so you can confirm the decisions made before deleting anything.

glitchcrab•1h ago
I wanted to try it out as I really need to clean up my camera roll, but it's not available in the UK :(
nicklewers•1h ago
My bad, shared the US link! Here you go: https://apps.apple.com/app/ai-photo-cleaner-sorter/id6754172... Will update the post :)

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