Comparison

Photo Sifter vs Kizu Mobile

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

Head to head
About

Photo Sifter

Effortlessly organize and rediscover your photo library with powerful AI-driven filters and visualizations. Find specific memories, uncover hidden patterns, and perform reverse image searches, all while keeping your data private on your device.

Highlights
  • AI-powered photo filtering
  • Visualize photo habits with charts
  • Reverse image search
  • Holiday and custom event sifts
  • Seamless Apple Photos integration
  • On-device processing for privacy
Features
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KEY FEATURES • Sift Your Photos Effortlessly stack filters to narrow down your photos by place, date, or powerful AI-powered filters. Find what matters most, fast. • Chart Your Photos Visualize your photo habits with stunning, interactive charts. Uncover fascinating patterns like: - Which years you traveled to the most countries. - Which month you captured the most photos. • Discover with AI-Powered Sifts Let AI uncover delightful surprises hidden in your photo library: - Which photos look most like a 70’s “record cover”? - What photos captured the biggest smiles of 2024? • Reverse Image Search Made Easy With the AI-powered Image Sift, you can reverse search to find similar photos: - Discover photos that look most similar to a specific image. - Copy and paste an image from the web to uncover matching memories in your library. • Find Photos Taken on Important Holidays Use built-in holiday sifts to find photos captured during special days, like New Year’s Eve, Thanksgiving, or Independence Day. Create custom sifts for family birthdays and other personal milestones to relive your most cherished memories. • Works Seamlessly with Apple Photos Photo Sifter integrates effortlessly with your Apple Photos library. It respects your privacy by keeping all processing on your device, never collecting or storing your data. Your photos remain untouched—it’s about finding memories, not editing them.

About

Kizu Mobile

Create private digital communities for sharing and organizing photos and memories. Import existing libraries, chat with friends, and translate conversations in real-time. Preserve your moments with no ads or data selling.

Highlights
  • Private digital communities
  • Photo import from other services
  • Built-in chat and direct messaging
  • Real-time chat translation
  • Automatic 'Moments' creation
  • Digital photo frame mode
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Kizu is a private platform for you to create digital communities, albums, events, and assets, to share and organize and preserve without ads or clickbait. WEDDINGS & EVENTS Invite guests to contribute their photos to a shared wedding album. Every angle, every candid, every moment your photographer missed — collected in one beautiful place. Guests join with a simple invite link. No app download required to view. BRING YOUR PHOTOS HOME Import your entire library from Google Photos, Facebook, or your Camera Roll. Kizu preserves your dates, locations, and albums. Move once, and your photos are yours again. STAY CONNECTED Built-in chat for every Circle and direct messages with your contacts. Share photos, stickers, locations, and calendar events right in the conversation. Reply to specific messages to keep things organized. SPEAK ANY LANGUAGE Friends across the world? Kizu translates chat messages automatically into 16 languages. Open Live Translate for face-to-face conversations with real-time translation — hand one side of the phone to grandma and talk naturally. MEMORIES THAT FIND YOU Kizu creates Moments from your photos — grouped by date, location, and the people in them. Narrate your memories with captions and share them with your Circle. YOUR PHOTOS, YOUR RULES - No ads, ever - No AI training on your photos - No selling your data - Photos can only be viewed by people you invite - Members cannot download or re-share outside the app PICTURE FRAME MODE: Turn an old tablet into a digital photo frame. Kizu cycles through your shared albums so your best moments are always on display. Free to start. Plans from $0.99/month for more storage, AI-powered search, and album video creation. Questions? Visit kizu.online/help or email support@kizu.com. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kizu.online/privacy

Screenshots

Photo Sifter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Photo Sifter at every 5 days against Kizu Mobile's every 2 weeks. Kizu Mobile's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Photo Sifter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Kizu Mobile sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Photo Sifter against 5.0 for Kizu Mobile. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photo Sifter ships an update every 5 days, Kizu Mobile every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Photo Sifter versus Kizu Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhoto SifterKizu Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size302 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSame Eyes Studios LLCGreg Eoyang

Customer experience

Photo Sifter

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Kizu Mobile

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Photo Sifter

One-time1
  • Unlock Full Access$5.99
10 purchases

Kizu Mobile

Subscriptions6
  • Storage Pack - Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Member – Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Host Plan – Monthly$9.991 Month
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  • Member - Yearly$9.991 Year
  • Storage Pack – Yearly$9.991 Year
  • Host Plan - Yearly$99.991 Year
One-time4
  • Gathering Credit$9.99
  • Upgrade to Celebration$20.00
  • Celebration Credit$29.99
Show 1 more
  • Wedding Plan$79.99

Questions

Is Photo Sifter free?
Photo Sifter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kizu Mobile free?
Kizu Mobile is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Photo Sifter or Kizu Mobile?
Photo Sifter and Kizu Mobile are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Photo Sifter or Kizu Mobile have ads?
Neither Photo Sifter nor Kizu Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Photo Sifter or Kizu Mobile?
Photo Sifter ships an update every 5 days, and Kizu Mobile every 2 weeks. Most recently, Photo Sifter was updated on November 4, 2026 and Kizu Mobile on November 5, 2026.

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