Photo Fling¶

Your photo library, one surprise at a time¶

Early days · in active development

Photo Fling deals you one photo at a time from your own library — fully random, or from this day in a past week, month, or year — and lets you flick through: keep it, favourite it, or delete it and move on. Part rediscovery, part spring cleaning. Think of it as a fling through your photos, with permission to fling a few of them out.

Why it exists¶

Most photo libraries are a graveyard of images nobody looks at twice: thousands of good memories buried under near-duplicates, screenshots, and blurry mistakes. "On this day" features resurface a curated few; Photo Fling hands you the whole library one card at a time, so the good ones get seen again and the junk finally gets dealt with.

Swipe, decide, next¶

Every photo gets a fast verdict — navigate, favourite, or delete — by swipe or by keyboard shortcut on the Mac. Videos play right in place, including ones streamed from iCloud. Lifetime stats keep score: photos rediscovered, favourites made, photos deleted, and how much disk space the cleanup has saved you.

Built to see nothing else¶

Photo Fling browses your library through Apple's Photos framework and keeps its stats in a local database on your device. Nothing is uploaded anywhere, there are no accounts, no analytics, and no tracking. Deletes go through the system's own confirm-and-Recently-Deleted flow, so nothing vanishes by accident. See the privacy policy — it's short.

Requirements¶

macOS 14 or later. An iPhone and iPad version is in the works. (On the App Store it will appear as "Photo Fling: Rediscover".)

Get it¶

Photo Fling is still early — it's in active development and hasn't shipped anywhere yet. TestFlight access is coming soon. Email photo-fling [at] mattmanuel [dot] com and I'll add you to the TestFlight the moment it opens — or just let you know when it ships.