iPhone · Runs on‑device
Keep your best shots, clear the rest.
You shoot the same scene thirty times to get one good photo. Selects finds those photoshoots and pre‑picks the keepers. You just correct with a tap.
iPhone·iOS 26 or later·Free·No account
How it works
The tedious first pass, already done.
Selects does the boring sorting, then hands you the few decisions that actually need an eye. Three taps and a shoot is curated.
It pre-picks the keepers. You just correct.
Selects groups each photoshoot (the same scene shot ten or twenty times) and pre‑picks two keepers: the sharpest, and the one that's genuinely different so you don't lose the moment. Everything else it suggests for clearing. Tap a circle to flip any shot between keep and clear. That's the whole job.
Remove, safely.
When you're ready, Selects shows exactly what you'll clear and the space you'll get back, then hands off to iPhone's own delete to confirm. Nothing is ever removed without your tap, and cleared photos stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days.
Your best few, and the space back.
A 40‑photo shoot becomes its best handful. Selects tallies what you kept, what you cleared, and the gigabytes you reclaimed, then lets you roll straight into the next shoot.
Prefer to choose everything yourself?
Skip the grouping and browse your whole library, newest first. Tap the photos you don't want, and Selects queues them for the same safe removal. Two paths, one clean library.
Everything stays on your iPhone
Your photos never leave your iPhone.
Selects reads your library on‑device, using the same Vision framework already built into your phone. No account, no ads, no photo uploads.
On-device, always
Grouping and scoring run entirely on your iPhone. Your photos are never uploaded and never leave the device.
Nothing deleted without you
Selects only ever suggests. The removal is your tap, and it goes through iPhone's own delete into Recently Deleted for 30 days.
Free, no strings
No account, no subscription, no ads, no upsell. Selects is free, with nothing to unlock and nothing to buy.
Freeing up space on your Mac too?
Library Cleanup is the deep‑clean tier of the same family: it sweeps your whole Mac photo library for duplicate photoshoots and repeat videos. In my own 27,518-photo library, it found 33.4 GB to clear. Same on‑device promise, same safety.
Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. No account, no subscription, no ads, no upsell, and nothing to buy inside the app. I built it for my own camera roll and decided to share it.
Do my photos ever leave my iPhone?
Never. Selects reads your library on‑device using the Vision framework already on your iPhone, so your photos are never uploaded. No account, and no copy of your photos in the cloud.
Can it delete a photo I want to keep?
No. Selects only suggests. You confirm the removal, and it goes through iPhone's own delete, so cleared photos sit in Recently Deleted for 30 days and can be restored any time in that window.
What if I'd rather choose everything myself?
Tap Browse all photos to skip the grouping and go through your library by hand, newest first. Same safe removal at the end.
Which iPhones does it support?
Any iPhone running iOS 26 or later.
How is it different from Library Cleanup?
Same family, different job. Selects is the on‑the‑go photoshoot curator for iPhone. Library Cleanup is the deep‑clean tier for your whole Mac library, focused on reclaiming storage from duplicate photoshoots and repeat videos.
Turn a 40-photo shoot into its best few.
On‑device photoshoot curation for iPhone. Free, private, and quietly good at its one job.
iPhone·iOS 26 or later·Free