Comparison

Piwigo vs Sweepold

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Piwigo

Manage your cloud-based photo gallery from your mobile device. Organize albums, edit photos and videos, upload new media with detailed metadata, and share your creations. This app complements the web-based Piwigo software for a seamless photo management experience.

Highlights
  • Browse and manage albums
  • Edit, download, and delete photos/videos
  • Upload media with metadata
  • Organize photos into albums
  • Share photos and videos
  • Set album cover images
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Piwigo for iPhone/iPad/iPod supplements the photo gallery software in the cloud Piwigo (v12.0 or higher): • Browse your albums, • Create, delete, move and rename albums, • Search, edit, download and delete photos and videos, • Copy and move photos and videos between albums, • Add and remove photos and videos from your favorites, • Set a photo as album image, • Upload photos and videos: - of modifiable size and quality, - with description, author, tags, EXIF metadata, - with or without GPS metadata. • Share albums, photos and videos. Piwigo empowers you to create your own photo gallery on the web. It includes many powerful features such as albums, tags, geolocation, many levels of customization, upload by visitors, privacy, calendar or statistics. Piwigo is free and opensource. Piwigo is also compatible with the following extensions: - Community: allows users to create albums and add photos - rotateImage: enables you to rotate images - Share Album: allows to share private albums with people who do not have an account - piwigo-two_factor: adds two-factor authentication (2FA) - piwigo-videojs: adds video support Feedback or questions ? Piwigo offers free support at https://piwigo.org/forum and we'd love to hear from you.

About

Sweepold

Features
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Your camera roll, finally under control. Sweep turns photo cleanup into something you actually finish. Your photos and videos appear one full-screen card at a time, and you sort each one with a single swipe. No menus, no checkboxes, no overwhelm. Just you and the next picture. A swipe says it all: • Swipe up — move to Trash • Swipe right — keep • Swipe down — skip and decide later • Swipe left — go back to the previous item Prefer to tap? Every gesture has a button in the bottom bar, so you can sort however feels natural. Tap a photo to hide the controls, double-tap to zoom in, and tap a video to play or pause. Nothing is deleted until you confirm. This is the part that makes culling fearless. When you swipe a photo up, it only goes to an in-app Trash. Nothing touches your real photo library until you open that Trash and choose to empty it — and even then, emptying uses the standard iOS deletion confirmation, so deleted items land in Recently Deleted for 30 days where you can still get them back. An Undo button appears after every trash, and you can restore anything straight from the Trash. Change your mind as often as you like. Private by design. Sweep works entirely on your device. There is no account, no sign-in, and no internet connection of any kind. No ads, no tracking, no analytics, no data collection. Your photos never leave your iPhone. Sweep is built on Apple Photos and fully respects Limited Library access, so you stay in control of exactly what it can see. Built for big libraries. Tens of thousands of photos? No problem. Sweep stays fast and smooth no matter how large your library grows, with fluid animations and smart preloading so the next card is always ready the instant you swipe. Details: • iPhone, iOS 17 and later • Full VoiceOver support; every gesture mirrored as a button • Handles very large libraries smoothly • Free, with no in-app purchases Sweep is a manual cleanup tool, plain and simple. No AI guessing, no automatic sorting — just a calm, fast way to decide what stays and what goes, one swipe at a time.

Screenshots

Piwigo4 screens
Sweepold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sweepold at daily against Piwigo's every 3 weeks. Piwigo's advantage is iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Piwigo ships an update every 3 weeks, Sweepold daily. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Piwigo versus Sweepold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPiwigoSweepold
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (182 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews69.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings182 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPigolabs鑫杰 吕

Bugs and requests

Piwigo

Reported bugs

35 issues
  • iPad app connection issues
  • Uploaded photos not showing
  • B&W images render blurry on iPad/iPhone
  • Pictures only display momentarily
  • Uploads have stopped
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  • Severe bug: deleted photo reappears
  • Live Photos not uploaded with 'live' portion
  • .MOV files fail to upload
  • Images stuck uploading for hours
  • Auto-download toggle deactivates
  • Crashes constantly on iPad
  • Permission errors on iPad
  • App needs auto upload camera roll
  • Users cannot delete their photos
  • Images no longer load
  • Cannot download original size photo via iOS app
  • Uploads hanging after update
  • Doesn't connect to custom domains
  • Crashing since last update
  • Album images layout issues
  • Thumbnail size adjustment ineffective
  • Uploading from cloud photos problematic
  • Uploads fail or resize to tiny images
  • Interface bugs, selection issues
  • Not compatible with iOS 8
  • Freezes on password entry
  • Cannot see existing albums
  • Album creation silently fails
  • Cannot upload photos
  • App not updated, upload issues
  • Stopped allowing photo uploads
  • Cannot select multiple pics at once
  • Freezes during upload
  • Uploads freeze after first photo
  • Doesn't upload geo info from exif

Requested features

13 requests
  • Ability to browse in Photos and open in Piwigo to upload
  • Double tap to zoom
  • Auto upload camera roll
  • Search capability
  • Support for multiple accounts
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  • Better album image layout
  • Ability to see and add comments
  • Video support
  • Nextcloud integration
  • Download original size photo via iOS app
  • Support tag editing on upload
  • Cache photo galleries for offline viewing
  • Upload geo info from exif data

Sweepold

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Piwigo

No in-app purchases

None

Sweepold

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Piwigo free?
Piwigo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sweepold free?
Sweepold is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Piwigo or Sweepold have ads?
Neither Piwigo nor Sweepold shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Piwigo or Sweepold?
Piwigo ships an update every 3 weeks, and Sweepold daily. Most recently, Piwigo was updated on October 3, 2026 and Sweepold on October 2, 2026.

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