Questions, answered.

Piqt is an on-device photo curator for iPhone. It scores every photo in your camera roll on things like sharpness, exposure, composition and face quality, then sorts your whole library into three buckets: Worth a tag, Clear out, and Everything else — so you can find your best shots and clear out the clutter without scrolling for hours.

No. Everything happens on your iPhone. Piqt uses Apple's on-device vision models and local quality models. There's no cloud processing, no account, and no upload step. Your photos, and everything they reveal about your life, never leave your device.

Never on its own. When you clear a photo, Piqt adds it to a "Piqt: To Delete" album in Photos. You make the final delete yourself in Apple's Photos app, with Apple's own confirmation dialog as the last safety net.

Until you do that, nothing is removed from your library. You can review and recover anything from the "Piqt: To Delete" album at any time, right inside Piqt.

It's a single quality rating from 0 to 1, built from five signals: Apple's on-device aesthetic score, technical quality (sharpness and exposure), a NIMA aesthetic model trained on 255,000 human-rated images, the faces in frame, and how rarely you shoot in that location. Scores are reduced on anything badly blurred or blown out.

Tap any score in the app to open the sheet. See every signal, every penalty applied, and a plain-language note on why that photo landed where it did.

Yes. All five signal weights are sliders in Settings → Advanced, along with the thresholds that decide which bucket a photo falls into. Move one and your whole library re-ranks immediately without a rescan needed, because Piqt keeps each signal separately and recomputes the total.

Piqt suggests, you decide. It flags likely keepers and likely clutter based on the Piqt Score, and groups shots that are merely similar, like burst frames, four takes of the same face, not just byte-identical duplicates. Every suggestion is still a suggestion: swap the keeper in a group, save a photo Piqt flagged, or favorite one it didn't.

Piqt has been tested smoothly on libraries up to around 100,000 photos. The initial scan runs in batches and is resumable, so you can close the app and pick up where you left off. After the first pass, Piqt only re-scores new or edited photos.

Piqt's first release is iPhone-only, running on iOS 26 or later. Mac and iPad versions are planned for after the iPhone launch.

No account, no sign-in, no email. Because everything runs locally, there's nothing to log into. Piqt asks for permission to access your photo library and that's it.

Yes. You can undo your most recent action with a shake. And since cleared photos only ever move to the "Piqt: To Delete" album, you can recover anything from there before you do the final delete in Photos.

Piqt is available now on the App Store. You'll need an iPhone on iOS 26 or later.

Scanning your whole library, scoring every photo, and browsing all three buckets is completely free. Piqt Plus is required to act on what Piqt finds: favoriting a pick, clearing a photo, or finishing a video trim. Recovering anything from the "Piqt: To Delete" album is never gated, whether or not you're subscribed. Piqt Plus is $3.99/month or $29.99/year, each with a 7-day free trial, a $49.99 one-time lifetime purchase, or a limited $99.99 Founders edition.