Piqt
iPhone app that scores and organizes your photo library on-device, finding your best shots and duplicates locally.
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Description
A phone with years of photos on it is really a huge, unsorted pile — somewhere in there are your best shots, dozens of near-identical duplicates, and screenshots you meant to deal with months ago. Piqt goes through that pile for you, without sending a single photo anywhere.
Piqt is an iOS app that analyzes your photo library using on-device AI, scoring photos on aesthetics, technical quality, face detection, and location rarity to surface your best shots. It detects duplicate and near-duplicate photos for easy cleanup, and automatically recognizes and files screenshots into categories like recipes, receipts, and web pages. All processing happens locally on the device — nothing is uploaded to a server — and a 'Safety album' with Apple Photos confirmation prevents accidental deletions.
💬 Our review
The short version: if your camera roll has become an unmanageable scroll of duplicates and forgotten screenshots, Piqt's free tier alone (full scanning and browsing) is worth installing just to see what it finds.
Compared to Google Photos or Apple Photos' own memory and duplicate-detection features, Piqt is more specialized and more transparent about how it scores photos, and its on-device processing is a real privacy advantage over Google Photos' cloud-based analysis. Compared to Gemini Photos, a similar on-device cleanup app, the two compete closely on the same pitch; the deciding factor is usually which scoring signals and organization scheme matches how you actually think about your photos. The $3.99/month or $49.99 lifetime option is fair for the cleanup use case, though the free tier covers the core discovery job — pay only once you're ready to act on what it finds (favoriting, clearing duplicates).
💰 Pricing
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🤖 AI-enriched data
Gratuit pour scanner/parcourir ; Piqt Plus $3.99/mois, $29.99/an, $49.99 à vie, ou $99.99 édition fondateurs
Pros
traitement 100% sur l'appareil, aucune photo envoyée sur un serveur
détection de doublons et quasi-doublons
reconnaissance et classement automatique des captures d'écran
plan gratuit qui couvre déjà le scan et la navigation complète
Cons
iOS uniquement, pas de version Android
fonctionnalités d'action (favoris, suppression) réservées à Piqt Plus
concurrence directe de Gemini Photos sur le même positionnement