Lightbrary

Your library holds years of moments, many of them ten times over: bursts, retakes, the shot you took again just to be sure. Lightbrary finds those near-duplicates, helps you choose the one worth keeping and clears out the rest, freeing space on your iPhone and in iCloud. Session by session, your archive becomes a collection you can actually find your way around. FIND THE REPEATS Lightbrary looks at your photos on your own device and groups the ones that are nearly identical and taken close together. You decide how alike they must be and how big a group is worth your time. PICK THE BEST, TWO AT A TIME Choosing one photo out of ten is hard. Choosing the better of two is easy. Lightbrary turns each group into a short tournament: the current favourite against the next challenger. You pick the better one until a single winner is left. YEARS OF PHOTOS, A LITTLE AT A TIME Nobody sorts fifteen years of photos in one go, and you do not have to. Every star, mark and choice you make stays, and each one builds on the ones before. Settled groups do not come back, and the more often you compare, the more the ratings reflect your own taste. Filter by year and by what is still unrated to see exactly what is left, and pick it up again whenever you have the time. FIVE MINUTES IS ENOUGH Tidying up does not need an evening at the desk. Settle a few groups on your iPhone in a waiting room, on the bus, in a taxi or before a lecture starts, then carry on at your Mac with the big screen. Your stars, marks and decisions follow you between the two, so each device picks up where the other left off. LET GO SAFELY Nothing is deleted behind your back. Mark what you don't need, review the marks, then delete them in one go with the system's own confirmation. Deleted photos go to Recently Deleted and can be restored for 30 days; the space comes back once they leave it. RATE AS YOU GO Lightbrary uses the same stars as Apple Photos, so your ratings show up there and on your other devices through iCloud Photos. YOUR PHOTOS STAY YOURS No account and no server. Lightbrary works on your photo library where it is, and whatever it passes between your devices goes through a folder in your own iCloud Drive.