LightPhotos vs Piczo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LightPhotos
Effortlessly organize your photo library and free up device storage. This app intelligently detects blurry, duplicate, and similar photos, offering quick deletion and categorization options. It also supports visually lossless compression for media, preserving metadata.
- Intelligent duplicate and blurry photo detection
- Swipe gestures for quick sorting
- Visually lossless photo and video compression
- Organize by album, year, or month
- Offline processing and zero data collection
- EXIF viewer and metadata preservation
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LightPhotos helps you quickly clean up photos and organize albums to keep them lightweight and tidy while freeing up phone storage space. Swipe to delete photos, categorize albums in one tap, compress photos & videos. Organize effortlessly and save storage fast. Intelligent detection for blurry, similar and duplicate photos, automatically keeping the best shots. Extreme performance optimization: runs smoothly even with over 100,000 photos in your album. Start organizing anytime, anywhere; progress auto-saves to streamline photo cleanup and album slimming. Works offline. Make good use of your spare time. Browse photos randomly while on buses, subways or flights, remove unwanted shots, and easily declutter your photo library. ## Organize Modes - Random Review: Avoid restarting sorting from the same spot every time. Relive memories while deleting photos and turn tedious digital chores into fun. - Sequential Browse: Sort by album, year or month in order. Progress saves automatically for multi-session cleanup. ## Gesture Controls - Swipe left to keep, swipe right to switch. - Swipe up to mark for bulk deletion later. - Swipe down to favorite / unfavorite. - Single tap to play, double tap to zoom. ## Photo & Video Compression Want to keep the media? Try visually lossless compression that retains quality and saves over 20% storage space. - Supported formats: JPG, PNG, HEIC, HEIF, LivePhoto, Gif, MP4, MOV. - Formats unchanged after compression; original creation time, EXIF, geolocation and all metadata preserved. - Built-in EXIF viewer to check and copy metadata. ## Multi-dimensional Sort & Filter - Sort randomly or by creation date / file size to quickly locate space-hogging videos. - Filter by media type, pixel size or duration to find ultra-short clips instantly. - Auto‑sort large‑size videos, short videos and long images. ## Privacy & Security - All photos and videos are processed locally on your device; no server uploads, fully offline usable. - Zero personal data collection, your privacy is fully protected. - Deleted media stays in your system Photos App’s "Recently Deleted" folder for 30 days and restorable anytime within the period. ## Subscription Info - Annual / monthly Pro subscriptions and one-time Lifetime membership available. - Full feature access during membership; continuous feature maintenance & new updates guaranteed. - Auto-renewal via your iTunes Account after purchase. Your Apple ID will be charged 24 hours before expiration, extending the subscription cycle upon successful payment. - To cancel auto-renewal, turn off automatic renewal manually in iTunes / Apple ID Settings at least 24 hours before the current cycle ends. Privacy: https://funyapp.github.io/apps/lightphotos/privacy Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Piczo
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Make room for what matters in your photo library. Piczo helps you discover related photos, organize them into albums, and turn overlapping screenshots into a single long image. EXPLORE YOUR PHOTO LIBRARY Browse an interactive photo globe or your familiar grid. Search for photos using natural language, and discover connections between your pictures. DISCOVER RELATED PHOTOS Explore suggested groups of similar photos and screenshots. Review the suggestions and choose what to keep together. BUILD ALBUMS YOUR WAY Start with one photo. As you select more, Piczo updates its suggestions based on all the photos you have chosen. Review new members before adding them to an album. CREATE LONG SCREENSHOTS Combine overlapping screenshots into a long image, then save or share the result. KEEP YOUR PHOTOS PRIVATE Photo analysis, text recognition, search, and grouping happen on your device. No Piczo account is required, and your photo library is not uploaded to our servers. Photos stored in iCloud may be downloaded through Apple Photos when needed. FREE TO START. PRO FOR LIFE. Keep up to 3 albums for free. Lifetime Pro unlocks unlimited albums and lets you turn off the Piczo watermark on exported long screenshots. One purchase. Lifetime access. No subscription. Restore purchases from the Pro screen. Available in English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese with regional wording for Hong Kong and Taiwan, Japanese, and Korean.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Piczo at daily against LightPhotos's fortnightly. LightPhotos's advantage is iOS requirement (14 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. LightPhotos sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Piczo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
LightPhotos ships an update fortnightly, Piczo daily. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | LightPhotos | Piczo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 271 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 刘生 林 | 腾飞 师 |
Customer experience
LightPhotos
Piczo
In-app purchases
LightPhotos
- LightPhotosPro Monthly (1 month)$0.991 Month
- LightPhotosPro Yearly (1 year)$3.991 Year
- LightPhotosPro Lifetime$6.99
- LightPhotosPro Lifetime$9.99
Piczo
- Piczo Lifetime Pro$9.90









