Looking for a Swipewipe alternative?

Swipewipe deserves credit — it popularised swiping through your camera roll to clean it up, and millions of people love it. If it works for you, genuinely, keep using it.

But if you’re here, you’re probably looking for something a little different. Here’s the honest pitch for Swipe2delete.

The same core idea

Both apps work the way a photo cleaner should:

• Swipe left to delete, swipe right to keep — one decision per photo
• Clean month by month, so a 20,000-photo library becomes a series of five-minute jobs
• Review before anything is deleted, so a stray swipe never costs you a memory

If you already know the swipe-to-clean workflow from Swipewipe, Swipe2delete will feel familiar in the first ten seconds.

Where Swipe2delete differs

Pay once, if you like. Swipewipe is subscription-based. Swipe2delete is free to try, and Premium is available either as a subscription or a single one-time lifetime purchase. Cleaning your camera roll is an occasional job — we don’t think it should be a permanent line item on your credit card.

Made by an indie studio. Swipewipe was created by Afternoon Products and is now operated by MWM, a large app publisher. Swipe2delete is built by Foobar Creative, a small independent studio in Adelaide, Australia. When you email support, the person who built the app reads it.

Deliberately simple. No feature sprawl. Swipe, undo if you change your mind, review, done — with a progress wheel to keep you honest and On This Day to resurface (and deal with) photos from years past. Over 27 million photos have been deleted with Swipe2delete, and it holds a 4.6★ rating on the App Store.

Side by side

Try it on this month’s photos

The nice thing about a photo cleaner is that trying it costs nothing — point it at one month, swipe through, and see how it feels.

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