Latent Photos

Photos without the clutter

Your Apple Photos library, in a calmer app. Nothing to import, nothing uploaded, and every change lands back in Apple Photos.

Download Latent Photos

$20 once, after a free week. No subscription.

On the App Store for iPhone and iPad. Requires iOS 26 or later. In 24 languages.

The Latent Photos grid: photos grouped by day, newest at the bottom, a gold corner on each reviewed thumbnail. — A fast grid with nothing between you and your photos, newest at the bottom like Apple Photos. Videos and Live Photos play right in the viewer.

The View page's Review tab: order Newest, Oldest or Random, show Unreviewed, review size 100, and all-time review stats. — **Review a pile at a time**Random 100 brings back moments you'd forgotten
The Review tab deals a set of photos you haven't looked at yet, from 10 to 300, newest, oldest or random. Keep, tag or delete as you go. Your place is kept across relaunches, and your review marks follow you to your other devices.

The Review done card: 135 reviewed, 26 deleted, 12 tagged, 97 kept, 13% of the library done, and a Next 100 button. — **Get your library organized, finally**Watching the pile shrink is satisfying, even addictive
Every review shows what you kept, tagged and deleted. An overwhelming library becomes a five-minutes-a-day habit.

A photo open in Similar mode, size and format under the title, the original and a near-twin in the filmstrip. — **Find similar shots**Across your whole library, all at once
The Similar tab gathers near-duplicates from across your whole library: burst leftovers, retakes, almost-twins. Open any photo and its similar shots line up in the filmstrip.

Compare: one gold line dragged between two shots of the same scene, size and format under each. — **Compare, then decide**Drag the line between two shots
Drag one slider between two shots and keep the better one. You decide, not an algorithm. Deleted photos go to Apple's Recently Deleted, so nothing is lost by accident.

The tag panel over a turtle photo, with the Animal and Turtle tags applied. — **Tags that travel**Every tag becomes a real album in Apple Photos
Tag photos with a flick. The album syncs through iCloud, so your categories show up on all your devices and stay yours even without the app. Prefer tags that live only in the app? One switch.

The View page's filter: media, a period slider, and tags to include or exclude. — **See only what you need**Filter by date, media and tags
Sort newest, oldest or random, and group by day. Share a photo, or a whole selection, to any app.

The View page's Similar tab: Strict or Balanced, newest or largest first, and similar stats for the whole library. — **A home for every duplicate**Clean up storage, reclaim your memory

The grid showing groups of similar shots, each group under its day. — **Similar shots, by day**Bursts and near-duplicates, gathered

Everything above, on iPad

The same grid on iPad, with more columns.

Compare on iPad: the gold line between two shots.

Private by design

Everything happens on your device, using Apple's on-device Vision framework. No accounts, no tracking, no servers of ours: nothing is ever sent to us. Your review progress is kept in your own iCloud. The App Privacy label says Data Not Collected. Lock the app with Face ID if you like.

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$20, once.

Every feature is unlocked from day one.

After a week and some real use, a single Lifetime Unlock keeps it all, including future updates. No subscription, no ads.

Downloaded version 1.0? Everything stays free for you, as promised.

Download Latent Photos

Latent Photos for iPhone and iPad. Requires iOS 26 or later.

Questions? See support.

Latent Frames

Wherever your photos live: folders, drives, NAS and cloud. See Latent Frames