Concept is good. I honestly I can’t believe that apple doesn’t have photo cleanup built into iOS, so this app provides a helpful service. However, a couple of problems need to be addressed to make it really useful.
Scanning your entire photo library (mine is around 20,000 photos) takes a VERY long time, and it doesn’t seem to run in the background. Therefore, you have to stay in the app and make sure the device doesn’t sleep. I spent about 20 minutes scanning and then switched apps, and when I came back I had to start the scan again.
Currently there are only 4 scan options: scan selfies, scan screenshots, scan all photos for all duplicates, scan all photos for specific image. Need way more options to make the app truly useful. See suggestions below>
Suggestions for developers - (definitely would improve my rating if any were implemented)
1)”Scan by album” - it would be great to be able to scan specific albums. For example, I have a separate album for each year. This would speed up the scanning process
2)”Scan by date range” - filter to set start and end dates to scan. Also would speed scanning process
3)”Refresh scan” - save results of scan, and add refresh button so that you don’t have to rescan every single time
Basically, use available metadata to allow user more options to limit the range of photos to be scanned, and the run the photo comparison algorithm only for that subset.