The companion Apple Photos is missing.
Clean near-duplicates and take real control of your library with tags — fast, simple, and 100% on your iPhone.
Coming soon to the App Store · iPhone · no account required
We don't rebuild Apple Photos. We finish it.
Apple Photos is great at most things. LatentSnap does the two it isn't — and gets out of your way.
Clean near-duplicates
Find the burst shots, near-identical retakes, and look-alikes Apple's dedup misses — review fast, keep the best, reclaim space.
Own your categories
Tag photos the way you think about them. AI suggests; you decide. Your tags are explicit, editable, and yours — not a black box.
100% on your device
Every photo and every tag stays on your iPhone. No cloud, no account, no analytics, no tracking. Ever.
AI search gets you 90%. You own the last 10%.
Black-box photo search is right most of the time — but when it's wrong, there's nothing you can do. Tags are different: every correction sticks.
Black-box AI search
- Right ~90% of the time, unfixable when wrong
- Can't correct, pin, or override a result
- No way to see why something matched
- Nothing you do accumulates — every search starts over
LatentSnap tags
- You define the categories; AI just speeds it up
- Explicit and editable — fix it once, it stays fixed
- Portable keywords (XMP) that travel with your files
- Your curation compounds toward a real 100%
Your photos never leave your phone.
LatentSnap Photos runs entirely on-device. We don't collect, store, transmit, or sell your photos or any personal data — there are no accounts and no servers to send them to. Read our privacy policy.
Questions
Does it replace Apple Photos?
No — it works alongside it. LatentSnap reads your existing library and adds the two things Apple Photos is weak at: near-duplicate cleaning and real, user-controlled tagging. Your photos stay in Apple Photos.
Is it really private?
Yes. All indexing, search, and tagging happen on your device using Apple's on-device vision technology. Nothing is uploaded. The only network activity is iOS itself fetching a photo from your iCloud if it isn't already downloaded locally.
What happens to my tags?
By default, LatentSnap turns each tag into an album in your Apple Photos library — so your tags become real albums you can filter and combine to pinpoint photos, and add or remove with a tap. Because they're Photos albums, they sync through iCloud automatically and survive a reinstall or a new iPhone. Want them kept apart from your existing albums? Turn on the "Tag:" prefix and they group under names like "Tag: Beach". Prefer to stay fully local? Tag-only mode keeps tags on your device — and private sync through your own cloud is in active development.
When can I get it?
LatentSnap Photos is launching on the App Store for iPhone. Join the waitlist and we'll let you know the moment it's live. A desktop version is on the way.