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The "Tinder for photos" app: swipe left to delete, right to keep

Yes, it exists: Sift deals your camera roll like a deck of cards — swipe left to delete, right to keep, exactly the gesture you know. It's the fastest photo-sorting interaction ever popularised, applied to the least fun chore on your phone.

Why swiping beats every other method

Sorting photos in a grid forces two costs on every decision: finding the next photo and acting on it (tap, select, confirm). A swipe deck removes both — the next photo is always dealt to you, and the decision is the action. One glance, one flick, next. People routinely triage 20–30 photos a minute this way; that's a 3,000-photo backlog in a few evenings of couch time.

Full-screen focus changes your judgement

In a grid, mediocre photos hide as thumbnails. Full screen, one at a time, you instantly know: keep or toss. Videos and Live Photos play on tap, so nothing gets deleted unseen.

The dating-app mechanics, minus the heartbreak

Swipe left — to the bin (not deleted until you confirm).
Swipe right — stays in your library, untouched.
Undo — the button dating apps charge for, free here.
Match celebration — finish a month, get the confetti.

And it's private

Unlike the dating apps: no profile, no account, no cloud. Sift runs 100% on your iPhone — photos never leave the device, and there's no tracking of what you keep or toss.

Do it in minutes with SiftSwipe left to toss, right to keep. Free — 60 swipes a day, photos never leave your iPhone.

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