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Charlie Irish

Gemini Photos - Clean up your Camera Roll

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Ever wondered where your iPhone storage goes? Most of it is probably useless photos, like those 20 pics you took to get one perfect shot. With Gemini Photos, you can keep just the good ones and remove similar shots, blurred pics, and other clutter in few taps

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Pavlo Pedenko
How cool is that. Waiting for Android version :)
Alex Kukharenko
@graver_ua Android app would be great!
Alexander Yemelianov
Maker
Hi, Product Hunters! Many thanks to @charlieirish for hunting Gemini Photos and to all of you for upvoting it. You may know one of our top apps is Gemini 2, a duplicate finder for Mac. It’s the users of that app who came up with the idea for this one. When talking to them, we discovered they mainly used Gemini 2 to sort out photos, and the improvement they wanted was the ability to do the same on iPhone. So we built Gemini Photos, an iPhone app for — you guessed it, photos that look alike. This is what Gemini Photos does: suggests you the best photo out of several similar shots lets you quickly delete the rest detects and helps remove blurred photos, screenshots, and photos of text lets you delete all iPhone photos if you want to P.S. We know it can be scary to let an app mess with your photos, because you might lose memorable shots, but don’t worry: Gemini Photos only suggests you what to delete, the final choice is always yours. Enjoy!
Rich Peterson
@ymlnv great use of P.S. to address primary concern
Shan Han
@charlieirish @ymlnv Awesome! I'm a big fan of Gemini 2 and also use it to sort pictures. Well done turning it into a product, super useful!
Martin Pannier
@charlieirish @ymlnv First thoughts after scanning 70k photos: - "Similar" is really unreliable. It said a photo of a friend and me, and a photo of the same friend and my girlfriend, on a scenic backdrop, were "similar" and one of the 2 should be deleted. - Since I can't trust the "Similar" section, would be great if the app could separate out true duplicates - same photo but maybe with different metadata - from "similar" photos. Cleaning up the 1st mess would also allow to clean the 2nd more easily. A sort by "how much I trust this app" if you will. Cheers
Eric M.
@charlieirish @ymlnv I have long been searching for a duplicate finder that is smart about albums. For example: I have two photos that are identical, A and B. Photo A is in three different albums, photo B is in one album. Can you delete photo A and then put photo B in all the albums where A appeared?
Andrii Tkachenko
Ok, its work for duplicate photos of 😸 But what about 🐕 ?
Alice Kotlyarenko
Maker
@tkachenko We tested the app, and it worked for photos of cats, dogs, bunnies, parrots, mini pigs, pet iguanas, and the absolute majority of wildlife, so you're pretty much covered 😸
Grzegorz Hadała
This is great! Worth the money :D Beautiful utility app. One thing: I had 510 photos selected and I pressed "Delete" by accident. Happily there was another dialog to access photos from iCloud and I revoked the access. Maybe an additional prompt ("Are you REALLY sure?") when you have more than 100, 200, 300 photos to delete? Nice work!
Alice Kotlyarenko
Maker
@greghadala Thank you for the suggestion! There's always an additional system confirmation when you're deleting photos, so don't worry :) Plus, they go to Recently Deleted, so even if you tap the confirmation by accident, you'll easily recover the photos.
Dmytro Bilkun
Maker
Before developing the app we did some market research, and over 50% of iPhone users said they had redundant photos. We decided to focus on major types of those: blurred photos, stuff like screenshots and photos of text (which you typically take to share with someone and then forget to delete), and of course, our specialty inherited from Gemini 2 — similar photos. The trickiest part was “teaching” the app to tell good shots from not-so-good ones. Gemini Photos uses computer vision to detect what’s in the image — specifically faces and smiles, which are important criteria. To identify photos of text and such, the app uses Apple’s Core ML.
Kseniia Rastvorova

It's an easy way to delete TONS of duplicates... I often experience problems when I have to choose one photo of a sunset, of my dog or of me! And Gemini Photos is a great solution, thank you guys!

Pros:

Helps to clean up my photo library!

Cons:

takes a while to scan my 24 000 photos library

Alexandra Tonkonog
Cool promo video:)
Lisa Dziuba
@alexandra_tonkonog they have awesome promo videos and awesome cats 🐱 🐱 🐱
Sergey Pirogov
Great idea! Finally, I can clean my iPhone 🤗
Dmytro Bilkun
Maker
@perpetuous Awesome, thanks. Will be looking forward to hearing your feedback.
Chad Reiser
The very first screen is “subscribe now for $1.99 / month.” So I swiftly deleted it. Give me a taste of what it can do before forcing me into a reoccurring subscription. PersInally, I would have used thIs app only once and then deleted It. I cant justIfy a monthly subscriptIon for my personal use.
Dmytro Bilkun
Maker
@chad_reiser Hi! Thanks for feedback. Our idea was to offer you a free trial from the start so you could experience the app with full access. Our intention was not to force you to subscribe but rather suggest. We will work on improving this flow and make it more clear and frictionless. Thanks again.
Louis de Vaumas
@chad_reiser @dmytro_bilkun Same here. I just wasn't ready for a subscription. I would happily pay 5€ for an app like this, but not a monthly subscription.
Valia Havryliuk
one of the most helpful features for girls, I think :) You shouldn't choose one of the best photos by yourself anymore, Gemini Photos will do it instead of you! Love it!
Dmytro Bilkun
Maker
@valiahavruliyk Thank you 😎 Really hope it will work out great for you.
Dmytro Bilkun
Maker
@valiahavruliyk @lisadziuba Looking good 😎 With Gemini Photos It's all about having 'space' on your iPhone after all [bad alien joke, sorry]
Ariel
This is awesome. Exactly what I needed. Maybe finally I will go back to my photos in Camera Roll. I hate this mess.
Dmytro Bilkun
Maker
@ariel_jedrzejczak Cool. Thanks. Do let us know how it goes 😉
Eugeny Plokhoj
Launching soon!
Awesome idea!
Dmytro Bilkun
Maker
@plokhoj Thanks! 🙃😀
Dre Durr💡
Sometimes I will have the same photo saved in multiple social media folders. Will it delete those photos as well? dope 🚬
Alice Kotlyarenko
Maker
@dredurr Yes, the app will find and group all these photos, so you can review them and decide which copy (or copies) you want to keep.
Ahmed Sulaiman
Wow! Congratulations on the launch! 🤟 What an amazing and smart approach to such frequent problem with Camera Roll.
Dmytro Bilkun
Maker
@geek_1001 Thanks:) Yeah, hoping to save quite a lot of people's time here 😎
Alexander Yemelianov
Maker
@geek_1001 Thank you!
Oksana M
Great! I have so many similar photos that it's almost impossible to find those I want to post or send to my friends. Now I can easily get rid of 500 photos.
Dmytro Bilkun
Maker
@oksana_medvedieva Glad you liked it! 😄
Chad Fullerton
Would download this in a heartbeat if it was for Android.
Dmytro Bilkun
Maker
@chad_fullerton Given all the feedback about Android here on product hunt today - we are seriously considering it now. Thanks  🙃
Fraser Smith

This is great for de-cluttering and removing screenshots and blurred photos etc. But I found that for 'similar' photos, it chose the best one for deletion too often. As it found over 2000 similar photos, I would have lost a lot of time checking every one of its choices.

In the end, I cancelled my trial and deleted it.

YMMV

Pros:

Simple, easy to use. Potentially a great spacesaver.

Cons:

I can't trust it so very time consuming

Alexander Yemelianov
Maker
We have a magic button which can delete all your similar shots with 1 tap. Did you find it in Similar section?
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Lisa Dziuba
That's super useful! Pity, that you don't have it for Android ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dmytro Bilkun
Maker
@lisadziuba Not yet. But who knows where this is going to take us 😉
Lisa Dziuba
@dmytro_bilkun will see on your next Product Hunt release :)
Daria Staverska
Congrats on the wonderful app!
Dmytro Bilkun
Maker
@daria_staverska1 Thank you so much! Glad you liked it 😃
Dana Parsons

I love everything by the MacPaw team. Have used their products for years.

Pros:

Get more space, stat.

Cons:

No Cons, maybe accidental deletion of shite photos