Creative media generation and editing
Photo library organizers and sharing
Apps that organize, clean up, curate, back up, and share personal photo libraries, including swipe-to-delete cleaners, local private galleries, and shared event/disposable-camera albums, for people with large or cluttered photo collections.
Built for: Smartphone users and hobby photographers
Projects since May 04
354
Different builders
326
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▲ +41%
AI is the core
9.6%
Projects per week
Mostly mobile app (57%), web app (26%), desktop app (8.2%) · from r/SideProject, r/ShowYourApp, r/IMadeThis, r/SaaS
Latest
- N3-Gallery — Views iPhone HEIF screenshots on Android with zoom, other image formats, and metadata display, without sending data to the cloud.“I've built an app called N3-Gallery- Open-IPhone-Screenshot-HEIF on Android.”
- Faded — Shares photos that gradually decay and disappear after a set time or number of views.“Its not a SaaS: Its Faded. a social app where photos gradually decay with time or views, until they eventually disappear forever.”
- Chalant — Organizes scheduled progress photos into a journey and turns them into a timelapse.“I wanted to actually see my progress, so I made an app for it”
- Backward — Resurfaces photos, released music, and personal notes from the same day in past years.“Photos and music from this day over the years”
- Oyaoya — Runs a weekly pet photo contest where users upload one photo per theme and others vote A/B without an account.“Shipped my pet photo app in 4 languages this week - the UI translated fine, the content didn't”
- Off-Time - Gallery Companion — Lets users scroll through their own photos and videos in a feed-style interface.“Made an app that lets you doomscroll your own photos and videos”
- snapgains — Stores private progress photos in a dedicated app separate from the camera roll for tracking physique changes.“Yesterday I launched my app. Today, I got my first customer. Best feeling in the world. Better than Christmas morning!”
- Captures photos in a panoramic XPAN-style aspect ratio on Android phones.“XPAN-style photography on Android”
- Contact Sheets Maker — Arranges multiple uploaded images into a single contact sheet that can be downloaded.“I built a free contact sheet maker for turning multiple images into one sheet”
- ORA — Overlays a semi-transparent reference photo or video on the live iPhone camera view so framing can be matched exactly.“9 months after launching my overlay camera app: what I shipped, what broke, and how one App Store review changed my roadmap”
- Swallery — Helps users clean up and organize their photo library.“Ho creato un'app per pulire la tua libreria fotografica — ecco Swallery 📸”
- PicPop — Groups similar photos from the camera roll so the user can swipe through and review them for cleanup.“PicPop 1.0.6 now tells you why two photos were grouped”
- Bitsy Cam — Applies swappable 3D lens effects to the live iPhone camera view, with adjustable pixel density and lens positioning.“I made an iPhone camera where you swap 3D lenses instead of filters”
- Trove — Organizes local photo and video libraries by trips, people, places, duplicates, and content search without uploading files to the cloud.“I built a photo app that does it all sorting, search, duplicates, a 3D globe (free & no cloud needed)”
- Unload — Copies all photos and videos from an iPhone to a Mac, verifies each copy with SHA-256, and deletes only verified copies from the phone.“Unload - A Mac app that empties your iPhone safely: copies every photo, checks each copy, then deletes”
- Backward - Daily Time Capsule — Resurfaces photos, music, and journal entries from the same day in past years.“Backward - Daily Time Capsule is now LIVE on the App Store!”
- ThePHOTO.one — Shows one manually selected photograph at a time on a website, keeping each photo up for at least four hours and crediting its photographer.“I’ve changed the concept of my photography project after getting some feedback.”
- Stillus — Builds four-photo booth strips on iPhone from camera or album photos, with frame colours, captions, and shareable project files so two friends can fill one strip.“I made a free iPhone photo booth app where friends can finish each other’s photo strips”
- approvavisa — Creates passport-compliant photos from user-uploaded pictures.“I made my first $7.99 😭 and immediately became a detective.”
- Snapgate — Intercepts newly taken photos with a notification to choose whether to upload them to Google Photos or keep them only on the phone.“I got tired of temporary photos filling Google Photos, so I built an Android app”
Most discussed
- pico cam — Takes photos through a Dynamic Island camera interface that reveals them slowly like Polaroid prints.“Made an app that turns your Dynamic Island into a polaroid camera (sound on 🔊)”
- Fotocaja — Lets users create projects in a photo-focused app, with most visitors only browsing the app without creating anything.“I quit my job to focus on my startup”
- Sidecam — Captures photos and 4K video inside a separate app, keeping them out of the system camera roll and optionally mirroring them to the user's iCloud Drive as plain files.“I'm a surgeon, not a developer. I spent a year building the camera app I needed and shipped it last week”
- Last One Photo — Lets anyone replace a single shared photo on a website, erasing the previous one.“I made a website where the entire world shares one photo.”
- Takes consistent progress photos for hair growth tracking using an overlay camera guide.“I just made my first sale!!! What is this feeling?!”
- PixCarry — Backs up phone photos and videos in the background to user-owned storage like S3, a NAS, or a desktop app, then deletes the originals from the device.“I made an iPhone/Android app that backs up every photo to your own S3/Server/NAS instead of iCloud then frees up the phone”
- Roll Call — Lets event guests take a fixed number of photos through a browser disposable camera and releases them later as one shared gallery.“I built a free app that turns every guest's phone into a disposable camera for your event. Looking for people to try it”
- Pro2Camera — Captures photos with manual controls for ISO, shutter, white balance, focus and exposure, applies live filters before capture, and provides an on-device album and editor.“Pro2Camera — I built the manual camera I wanted: real dials, ProRAW, and an editor that never sends a photo anywhere”
- Pholu — Lets people create private shared spaces for storing photos, videos, audio and memories, with AI features to help find and revisit old memories.“I built an app, but getting the first users feels much harder”
- Photo Curator — Culls, deduplicates, and ranks trip photos locally by sharpness, burst similarity, and composition scores to surface the best shots.“I built a free photo-culling tool with Cowork - it takes 8,000 trip photos down to my best 50 (Cull → Dedup → Rank)”