Every Swipe to Delete Photos App on the App Store (September 2026)

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A swipe to delete photos app shows your iPhone camera roll one photo at a time: swipe one way to keep it, the other way to delete it. Our App Store census on 2026-09-29 found 1,056 apps built around that gesture. Of the 32 we checked in detail, only four sell nothing that unlocks a feature: Pixtide, Reclean, Photo Swipe: Cleanup Photos and Quack. The rest cap swipes, show ads or bill weekly.

This page is written by the Pixtide team (we make Pixtide). We name where the other apps win. Shorter lists: Tinder for photos apps and the best free photo cleanup apps.

Quick picks by need

• Free with nothing to buy: Pixtide, Reclean or Quack. Pixtide adds Decide Later and whole-session Undo; Reclean adds duplicate tools; Quack is the simplest, last updated 2026-05-23.
• Best for duplicates: Clever Cleaner. AI duplicate detection beside an unlimited, ad-free Swipe mode; since 2026-08-17 new users get daily limits on the other tools unless they pay $6.99 a week.
• Biggest: Swipewipe, with about 80% of new US ratings in the swipe-only category in late September 2026.
• Unlimited free swiping, with ads: Photo Cleaner ® by Lumi Software.
• Filing into albums: Slidebox.
• A daily habit: Daily Delete, one day's deck at a time.
• Most languages among small swipers: Unroller, with 23.

Every app in one table

Sorted by US ratings (count, average, check date). "Reviews" means users report it; "all-in-one" marks storage cleaners with a swipe mode.

The 12 biggest swipe-first apps

Swipewipe

Swipewipe, owned by the French studio MWM since June 2024, is the giant: 4.69 from 94,247 US ratings, checked on the App Store on 2026-09-25. It sorts month by month with a Decide Later bookmark and a final review. The free tier changed: reviewers describe 8-hour cooldowns and, since late August 2026, unskippable video ads, one before a deletion finishes. "i don't want to watch a full 45 second ad with no skip button every 3 swipes" (1 star, 2026-09-20). Swipewipe on the App Store.

Slidebox

Slidebox, from Slidebox LLC in Seattle, dates from 2015 and still files better than it cleans: swipe up to trash, pull down to favourite, or tap an album to move the photo into a real iOS album. It holds 4.81 from 16,547 US ratings (2026-09-25). The free version shows ads, and reviews since about September 2025 say only the latest year is free. Its label lists Photos or Videos as collected, and its policy says pictures "may be uploaded".

Slider

Slider, by June Ninth LLC, earned 4.84 from 11,147 US ratings (2026-09-25) as the free, no-ads option: "OMG finally found one that doesn't charge you ANYTHING" (5 stars, 2026-08-22). Version 66 in July 2026 added a $19.99 yearly Premium and Google AdMob ads. Photos and videos share one stack, with a review screen and undo. Its listing does not mention month sections or a decide-later pile.

Picnic

Photo Organizer: Picnic swipes left to archive and right to keep. It shows 4.81 from 9,685 US ratings (2026-09-25), but MWM bought it on 2026-04-09 and the free tier has shrunk: the listing promises 100 swipes a day, reviewers report 20 since August 2026 and ads since July, while the listing still says "Ad-Free". "went from having 100 swipes a day... to TWENTY!?" (1 star, UK, 2026-08-26). Written reviews over the last three months averaged 2.62 stars.

Photo Cleaner ® by Lumi Software

Photo Cleaner ®, from the one-person Dutch studio Lumi Software, is the best-rated app that lets free users swipe without a cap: 4.79 from 4,974 US ratings (2026-09-25). A final confirmation comes before anything is removed. The trade is ads, an interstitial after each finished month per reviewers, and a Premium from $3.99 a week to $29.99 a year for duplicates and ad-free use.

Swipick

Photo cleaner - Swipick, from Bastien Penalba's Krobe.net, is the largest swipe sorter the roundups never mention: 4.47 from 3,426 US ratings (2026-09-29). It works month by month, with a review grid where a tap undoes a choice. Its 110 written US reviews average 2.96 stars; users report 25 to 30 free swipes before a wait, rewarded ads and slow loading. It was last updated on 2025-07-07.

Daily Delete

Photo Cleaner: Daily Delete, from In Ordinem LLC, deals a short daily deck of photos taken on today's date in earlier years. It has 4.71 from 1,862 US ratings (2026-09-25). Free users sort one day at a time; Pro is $6.99 a week or up to $39.99 a year. AI recommends what to trash. Its listing says "No ads" while its App Store page shows Contains Advertising.

Flic

Flic, by Lifehack Labs, is the 2014 original that the tech press called Tinder for photos that year. After no update between March 2019 and September 2026, version 3.0 relaunched it on 2026-09-07 with on-device AI that queues likely junk. Its 4.52 from 1,110 US ratings (2026-09-25) mostly belong to the old app. Free users get 50 swipes a day; Premium runs from $6.99 a month to $49.99 lifetime, and the listing says no ads.

Swipe & Delete

Swipe & Delete Photo Declutter, by Eruka Tech and still indexed as "Swipe Delete: Photo Declutter", has no swipe cap we could find and earns at the delete step: ads appear when you confirm, "only when deleting more than a few photos" in the developer's 2024 words. It has 4.50 from 1,007 US ratings (2026-09-25), month sorting, undo and a review screen. Eight ad-removal purchases run from $1.99 to $39.99. More in Pixtide vs Swipe Delete.

Gallery Cleaner : Swipe Delete

Gallery Cleaner : Swipe Delete, by Alunt Apps, was released on 2015-12-18 and updated on 2026-09-10. It has 4.71 from 692 US ratings (2026-09-29), though 84 of its 100 US written reviews date from 2019. A review sheet lists everything before Apple's delete dialog. The free version shows ads and has a limit; a one-time $4.99 upgrade unlocks months, no limit and no ads. "I just wish there was a button to undo your last swipe" (4 stars, 2025-07-29).

Swipe Guru

Swipe Guru, by AI APPS S.R.L., shows the library as month tiles and gives each card Undo, Delete, Keep and Favourite buttons. It has 4.62 from 668 US ratings (2026-09-29), yet the 15 written reviews we could read average 1.8 stars. Reviewers say a few months are free and more unlock by watching an ad or paying; purchases are $5.99 and a $19.99 lifetime unlock.

Swipp

Photo cleaner: Swipp, sold by Pacifiq, puts an album bar under the card so you can file while sorting, with undo and a review before finalising. It has 4.61 from 599 US ratings (2026-09-29), and reviewers say swiping is unlimited. Sources disagree on ads: the App Store listing says Contains Advertising, while the maker's page at pacifiq.io/swipp says there are none.

Smaller apps worth knowing

• Reclean (Labi, LLC): free with no purchases, swipe plus duplicate, screenshot and video tools, 4.91 from 544 US ratings (2026-09-29), and a privacy label that declares less than Pixtide's. "the only one that didn't have a pay wall after 3 days" (5 stars, 2026-09-01). Reclean on the App Store; see also Reclean vs Pixtide.
• PixSwipe: launched free on 2026-01-03, then its developer replied on 2026-06-29 that "we've moved to a paid model". It has not been free since June 2026, though its listing still opens with a free promise.
• Photo Swipe: Cleanup Photos: free, no ads, no purchases, no cap, but its label declares Usage Data used to track you, its privacy policy link did not load on 2026-09-29, and 16 of 44 written reviews report black photos.
• Photo Cleaner - Swipe (Mohamed Fakiri): month decks, unlimited undo, no AI; no ads per its listing and a July 2026 developer reply; five subscriptions.
• Unroller: 23 languages, no ads, purchases up to $79.99 lifetime, and two 2026 reviews report paying to delete. See the Unroller alternative.
• Swipy (Happii Apps): a cooldown free tier the developer confirmed on 2026-04-06. See the Swipy alternative.
• Quack: free, no ads, tips only; no video in its listing.
• Sifty and Siftly are different apps: Sifty gives 40 free photos a day; Siftly starts at $11.99 a week.

Where Pixtide fits

Pixtide is a free iPhone swipe cleaner with no in-app purchases, no ads and no swipe limit: right keeps, left deletes, down sends a photo to a Decide Later pile. Swiping only marks a photo: a review screen lists everything marked before you confirm, and the Undo button reaches back through the whole session. Reclean shares the free model and does more: duplicates, compression and a lighter privacy label. Pixtide's limits: no duplicate detection, only the representative photo of a burst, iPhone only on iOS 18.0 or later, an English interface, and 5.0 from 4 US ratings on 2026-09-26.

All-in-one cleaners with a swipe mode

• Clever Cleaner (CleverFiles): an unlimited, ad-free Swipe mode by month with an in-app trash, and our duplicates pick. Since 3.0 on 2026-08-17, new users face daily limits on other tools and a $6.99 weekly plan.
• Hyper Cleaner (Gismart): a Memories deck by months and days with an end-of-session review; reviewers say deleting is paid.
• Cleaner Kit (BPMobile, 350,825 US ratings on 2026-09-25): "Right to keep, left to delete" sorting that archives, with weekly or annual plans and Contains Advertising.
• Tidy Up (Moonmoor), Swipe Cleaner (Evaspire) and True Cleaner (Alpha Zeta) look built from one template: the same eight languages, iOS 15 minimum, one-app developer accounts, Google Sites company pages and identical privacy labels, and Tidy Up and True Cleaner both shipped version 1.8.2 on 2026-08-31. That is an observation, not a claim of common ownership. Tidy Up and Swipe Cleaner charge $9.99 a week, carry Contains Advertising, and their policies say photos "may be uploaded".

The 2026 newcomers

The census counted more than 60 swipe cleaners released in 2026 that still had fewer than 10 US ratings on 2026-09-29. By name: TidyPic, Sift - Photo Cleaner, SlideRoll, Swipsy, Sortie, Nixo and Vicky from 2026, plus MagicSwipe, Swipe2Clean and GetPicSwipe from late 2025. None had measurable Google search demand in our 2026-09-29 keyword run.

Name clones

Popular names attract copies, so check the developer and id. Swipewipe has at least nine same-name apps outside MWM's, plus Swipe Photo Cleaner: SwipeWipe by FlashSoft (6462894933, 327 US ratings), first in the German App Store for "fotos löschen" in September 2026. Swipr has three more namesakes, Flic six Flick-style names, Photo Purge five copies, Swipy four, SwipeClean three. One app took the keyword without being a cleaner: Swipe Cleanup: Storage Manager (Mini Tree Technology, 1483023433) is an AI face-effects app, formerly Tempi Art, renamed in April 2026 after adding a small cleanup module, so it is not in our table.

How we built this list

We ran the census on 2026-09-29 with Apple's free iTunes Search and Lookup APIs: 178 searches across 15 storefronts matched 1,246 apps, and 1,056 passed a test for a swipe word next to a keep or delete word about photos. For 32 apps we wrote a file from the App Store page (purchases, privacy label, Contains Advertising line, version history) and the reviews: 16 on 2026-09-25, 15 on 2026-09-29, and Pixtide from its facts sheet of 2026-09-26. Two "not checked" rows come from the census alone. We did not test apps on a device.

What to check before you install

1. What free means: a daily cap (Sifty 40 photos, Flic 50 swipes, Favvy 100), a cooldown (Swipewipe, Swipy, Swipick), a paywall at the delete step (Minus Photos; reported for Hyper Cleaner), or ads.
2. How it bills: $9.99 a week is about $519 a year, more than any lifetime price in the table.
3. Written reviews, not just stars: Swipick shows 4.47 stars but 2.96 across 110 written reviews; Hyper Cleaner 4.63 against 2.24 across 50.
4. The privacy label: Quack and Sifty declare Data Not Collected; Reclean and Photo Cleaner - Swipe declare less than Pixtide; many others declare tracking.
5. Who wrote the list: many "best swipe app" roundups come from app makers (photobroom.com sells PhotoBroom, favvyapp.com sells Favvy), and so does this page.

Every app deletes through Apple's Photos library, so removed photos stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days (Apple Support; Apple's delete or hide guide). See also which photo cleaner apps are free and the photo cleaner with no swipe limit.

Pixtide is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the apps named on this page. All product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This comparison reflects publicly available information as of September 2026; pricing and features change, so please check each app's App Store listing for the latest details.

Frequently asked questions

What is the app where you swipe to delete photos?

There is no single one. Our App Store census on 2026-09-29 found 1,056 apps that pair a swipe with keeping or deleting photos. The most rated is Swipewipe, 4.69 from 94,247 US ratings checked on the App Store on 2026-09-25. Others include Slidebox, Slider, Picnic, Photo Cleaner ® by Lumi Software, Reclean and Pixtide. In most of them a right swipe keeps the photo and a left swipe deletes it.

Is there a free swipe to delete photos app with no limit?

Yes. Pixtide, Reclean and Photo Swipe: Cleanup Photos had no in-app purchases and no swipe cap when checked on the App Store between 2026-09-25 and 2026-09-29, and Quack takes only tips. Clever Cleaner's Swipe mode and Photo Cleaner ® by Lumi Software also let you swipe without a cap, but both sell subscriptions and Lumi shows ads.

Which swipe photo cleaner apps have no ads?

In late September 2026, Pixtide, Quack, Photo Swipe: Cleanup Photos, Clever Cleaner, Flic, Unroller and Sifty showed no ads per their listings and reviews. Reclean's listing carries a Contains Advertising flag, but reviewers and its developer say no ads appear. Swipewipe, Slidebox, Slider, Picnic, Photo Cleaner ® by Lumi Software and Swipe & Delete show ads to free users.

Is PixSwipe still free?

No. PixSwipe launched free on 2026-01-03, and its developer replied on 2026-06-29 that "we've moved to a paid model". On 2026-09-29 its App Store listing restricted photo cleaning to subscribers, showed Contains Advertising and listed purchases from $4.99 a week to $69.99 lifetime, although the first line of the description still promised a free cleanup.

How many new swipe photo cleaner apps came out in 2026?

Dozens. Our 2026-09-29 App Store census counted more than 60 swipe cleaners released in 2026 that still had fewer than 10 US ratings, including TidyPic, Sortie, Nixo, Vicky and Swipsy. The largest 2026 swipe sorter in our data is PixSwipe, with 287 US ratings nine months after release. None of the small newcomers had measurable Google search demand.

Is it safe to delete photos with a swipe app?

Deleting is reversible for a while: every iPhone swipe cleaner deletes through Apple's Photos library, so removed photos wait in Recently Deleted for 30 days. Pixtide, Slider, Reclean, Clever Cleaner and Gallery Cleaner also show a review screen first. Read the privacy label too: the policies of Slidebox, Tidy Up and Swipe Cleaner by Evaspire say photos may be uploaded.