Latent Photos Assistant

Minimalist: clean, tag & own

Free · In‑App Purchases

Free to try, then one $10 purchase unlocks everything for life. No subscription, no account, no tracking. Downloaded v1.0? You keep everything free, forever. Latent Photos is a fast, private companion to Apple Photos. It does the two things your photo library is missing: cleaning up near-duplicate shots, and giving you full control of your categories through tags that are truly yours. You stay the judge: compare any two shots with one slider and keep the better one, no swiping blind, no algorithm picking for you. Tagging takes a flick, and every tag becomes a real album in Apple Photos, yours even without the app. And in between, Latent Photos is simply a calm, fast, minimal place to browse. CLEAN UP SIMILAR SHOTS Open any photo and tap Similar. Near-duplicates line up in the filmstrip, sorted by closeness: burst leftovers, retakes, almost-twins. Compare any two with a single slider and delete the weaker one with confidence. Deleted photos go to Apple's Recently Deleted, so nothing is ever lost by accident. TAGS THAT ARE YOURS Tag photos in place. Your labels are explicit, editable and exportable, never a black-box search you can't correct. By default every tag becomes a real album in Apple Photos, synced through iCloud: your categories survive reinstalls, show up on all your devices, and remain yours even without the app. Prefer to keep tags private to the app? One switch. REVIEW AT YOUR OWN PACE Photos you've looked at get a subtle tick. Filter to Unreviewed to pick up exactly where you left off, and turn an overwhelming library into a five-minutes-a-day habit. SLICE YOUR LIBRARY ANY WAY Combine tag, review-state and media-type filters. Sort newest, oldest or random. Group by day, month or year. Videos and Live Photos play right in the viewer. LEARN IT IN TWO MINUTES An optional hands-on tour adds two demo photos to your grid and walks the real flow: find similar, compare, tag, clean up. Nothing to read; do it once and you've got it. Replay anytime from Settings. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything happens on your device, using Apple's on-device Vision framework. No accounts. No cloud uploads. No tracking. No network access at all. The App Privacy label says "Data Not Collected" because there is nothing to collect. Your photos and your effort stay yours. FREE TO TRY, YOURS FOR ONE PURCHASE Every feature is unlocked from day one. After a week and some real use, a single Lifetime Unlock purchase keeps it all forever, including future updates. No subscription. No ads. And if you downloaded before this version, our early-adopter promise stands: everything stays free for you, for good. Latent Photos doesn't replace Apple Photos. It makes it better. Editing, sharing and sync stay where they belong; we fill the gaps: fast cleanup, and categories you own. Fully localized in 24 languages.

  • 5.0
    out of 5
    5 Ratings

Two months of work since 1.1: a new first run, a quieter Settings, a new "Sort & Filter" page, and fixes for what people kept hitting. NEW • First launch now opens with three short silent clips of the real app clearing similar shots, tagging and reviewing, then asks for photo access. The old hands-on tour is gone, and the clips replay any time from Settings under "Welcome guide". • A new "Sort & Filter" page: sort by when a photo was captured or when it was added, group by day or not at all, and filter to a year or a month, tapping a second one to make a range. A live count shows how many photos match. • Settings is quieter. Each row is just its title and control, with the explanation behind a small (i), and "Album name = tag" and "Back up reviewed marks" now sit under "Sync tags to Photos albums". • The viewer shows the photo's capture date at the top, with the same weekday badge and color the grid uses. • A photo that still has not appeared after a few seconds now says "This photo isn't loading" and offers "Try Again", instead of spinning with nothing to tap. FIXED • Big deletes left photos behind: delete about 100 and roughly 20 stayed in the grid, and deleted shots popped back while Photos finished committing. The grid now checks that each deletion has landed, and remembers the batch across a relaunch. Deleted photos leave the app's index at once too, so they stop counting toward "Ready for similar photos" and stop turning up in Similar. • Delete could act on the photo you had just swiped away from. Delete, Similar, Compare, Review, favorite, tagging, copy and export now all resolve the photo on screen at the moment you tap. • The viewer could wedge: one failed load at full zoom turned every page you swiped to into blank white, and a photo could sit spinning all session. Blank pages now retry on their own, a photo that truly cannot be shown says so, and soft, gray or blank images are asked for again on the grid, the filmstrip, "Compare" panes and tag covers. • "Similar photos" holds its ground. Deleting the original keeps the rest of the group on screen, results refresh as indexing catches up, and leaving returns you to the photo you started from, not to wherever the match lived. • "Reset reviewed marks" now clears review status across your devices, not just the one you tapped, and the two housekeeping albums no longer show up as tags. • Pinching to zoom no longer flashes the grid behind the photo, a flick through your tags lands on the next one instead of skipping two, opening Settings keeps your place in the grid, and the thin dark line under photos is gone. • Cold launch showed the logo twice at different sizes over an English only line. One steady screen now, in your own language. • If the old tour left demo photos in your library, the app offers once to remove them and never asks again. FASTER • Preparing your library for "Similar" now works on several photos at once instead of strictly one after another, so "Ready for similar photos" climbs much faster. Opening a photo no longer throws away work already done, and preparation eases back to one photo at a time if the phone gets hot. • Indexing and reviewed marks moved off the thread that draws the screen, so scrolling keeps up while that work runs. NICER • With "Auto-mark reviewed" on, a photo is marked as soon as it is on screen, including the one you opened on. • Page turns give a small haptic tick, and Similar, Compare and Review tap back on every press. • Deletes now play out on the grid as one continuous motion instead of a sudden rearrange. • Long press menus read like the viewer's: Info, Copy, "Set as tag cover", and Delete on its own. Restore Purchases is a real button now, not small gray text. • The Photos access request speaks all 24 languages the app ships in, and the "Welcome guide" follows your text size and works with VoiceOver. • iPad gets a bigger launch mark, roomier guide clips, and grouped viewer buttons. Found something? hello@latentsnap.com

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  • Data Not Collected

    The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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    Seller
    • Latent Snap LLC
    Size
    • 13.7 MB
    Category
    • Photo & Video
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later.
    Languages
    English and 23 more
    • English, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
    Age Rating
    4+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Latent Snap LLC