Piqt (iOS) – on device photo and video curator
I've just released Piqt, an on-device photo/video curator. For years I've wanted to get my Apple Photos library under control, but there just aren't enough hours in the day. I started out in Jupyter notebooks to see how much I can use AI models to automate it and Piqt is the result. My goals with Piqt: - Fully on device: I use a number of ML models, Apple Vision API, clustering algorithms to rank and sort your photos. Everything runs on device. - Private and Safe: Piqt has no accounts, no cloud services, no personal identifiers. Images or personal information never leave the device.…
Piqt (iOS) – on device photo and video curator launched on August 30, 2026 with 5 votes, #1,809 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Piqt curates every photo on your iPhone on-device: ranks your best, finds your trips and turns each into an album, groups the near-identical shots, and files your screenshots. Explainable scores. Nothing uploaded. Nothing deleted without you.
Piqt scores every photo in your library on your iPhone then ranks it, finds your trips, groups the similar shots, and files the rest where you can find it. Easily find the pictures that matter to you. Nothing is uploaded. Nothing is deleted without you. Your phone dumps every selfie, milestone, portrait, experience, receipt, screenshot ... into one big bucket. It will not tell you which ones are good, and it will never make the other 9,999 worth opening. Your phone needs a curator. Curation is why people love museums: interpret a collection, organize it, and make it worth visiting. Photos gives you a vault and a search box. Piqt curates and gives you the collection. The plates on this page…from piqt.app
In the maker’s words, at launch
I've just released Piqt, an on-device photo/video curator. For years I've wanted to get my Apple Photos library under control, but there just aren't enough hours in the day. I started out in Jupyter notebooks to see how much I can use AI models to automate it and Piqt is the result. My goals with Piqt: - Fully…
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