Coming to iPhone · Early access
Sieve groups your similar shots, bursts and old screenshots, marks the keepers, and swipes away the rest — entirely on your iPhone. Nothing uploads. No account. No subscription, ever.
Founding members get Sieve Pro free, for life.
Real reviews and audits of the category leaders — this is what Sieve is built against.
“A weekly payment of $8 is absolutely insane — that’s $416/year.”— App Store review of a top cleaner app
“Would people actually pay more for an app to delete photos than for Netflix?”— review after a $9.99/week price hike
“My grandma’s phone had two cleaner apps charging her $7.99 a week.”— security researcher who audited the category
Audits also found the market leaders ship 6+ ad-and-tracking SDKs — and report your photo counts home, even from paid “Pro” accounts.
Everything runs locally on your iPhone. First results appear in seconds; your photos never touch a server.
Similar shots, bursts, old screenshots and space-hogging videos arrive pre-grouped, with the best of each group already marked. Swipe to disagree.
One confirmed batch delete. Removed photos rest in the system’s Recently Deleted album for 30 days — same as deleting in Apple Photos.
| Typical cleaner app | Sieve | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $7.99/week once the trial ends | One purchase. That’s it. |
| Your photos | Uploaded, with 6+ tracking SDKs along for the ride | Never leave your iPhone |
| Scan results | Exaggerated “junk found” numbers | Real groups you can verify photo by photo |
| Undo | Usually none | 30 days, system-wide |
| Account | Required | None |
No. One-time purchase, no trial that quietly converts, no upsell maze. Joining this list costs nothing and commits you to nothing — and founding members get Sieve Pro free for life.
Everything Sieve removes goes to the system’s Recently Deleted album and stays recoverable for 30 days — the exact same safety net as deleting in Apple Photos.
Correct. All grouping and matching runs on-device. The goal is an App Store privacy label of “Data Not Collected”: no account, no analytics SDKs, no ad SDKs, no photo bytes over the network.
That only merges exact duplicates. The space actually disappears into similar shots, bursts, screenshots and videos — which is exactly what Sieve handles.
iPhone first, targeted for this winter. The waitlist gets the first invites and a founding-member discount.