Find your best photos on iPhone.
Somewhere in your camera roll are the photos you'd actually frame. They're buried under everything else you shot that day. SpectraSort gives you three ways to get them out: describe them, point at one, or let a learned taste profile pull them up on its own.
Type what you remember. Get it back best-first.
"Roses" works. "Dogs at the beach" works. "Cozy" works. Find a Subject takes anything you can put into words, whether it's concrete, compound or abstract. No Apple Intelligence required.
What's different from built-in search is the order. Every match is scored, so the best shot of the thing you remembered sits at the top instead of somewhere in row nine.
One good photo finds the rest.
Sometimes the query is a photo, not a phrase. You have one good shot of the lake house and you know there are more. Like This Photo takes that one example and ranks the whole library against it. The screenshot shows a real sort, with 1,708 photos ranked against a single reference.
It's the fastest answer to “I know this photo exists but I can't find it”, including for photos three years deep.
Or just ask for the best.
Best Shots surfaces the sharpest, best-exposed, best-composed frames from any slice of the library, and you can lean it technical or artistic.
Your Taste goes a step further. It's a profile learned from your own keeps and rejects, so what rises to the top is what you would have picked rather than what a generic model likes. No other app does this.
All of it on your phone
The index, the search and the scores are all computed on the iPhone's Neural Engine, so your photos are never uploaded and there's no account to make. The first index runs at up to 100 photos a second on recent iPhones. After that, a search across thousands of photos takes a moment.
- It can only find the best of what you shot. It can't rescue a moment you didn't capture.
- iPhone only, iOS 18.5 or later. No iPad, Android or desktop version.
- The first index of a big library takes a while. It only happens once.
- Deleted photos spend 30 days in iOS's Recently Deleted album, so the storage comes back later, not right away. SpectraSort doesn't show a “GB freed” number because it would be a guess.
Free to try. $19.99 once to keep.
Five sorts a week are free, forever, with no account and no credit card. Premium is a single $19.99 purchase that removes the cap and unlocks Studio. No subscription, ever. Built by an indie dev who uses it daily.
Download on the App Store