Gemini Photos: Gallery Cleaner

Name: Gemini Photos: Gallery Cleaner
Rating: 4.617 (18601 reviews)

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Gemini Photos: Gallery Cleaner

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User Reviews for Gemini Photos: Gallery Cleaner

Great product. Bad subscription.

Once or twice a year, I try to clear out my unnecessary photos from the photos app. Every time, I make it no more 10 minutes before I quit out of frustration and accept the fact that I’ll have junk photos, videos, and screenshots stored with the rest of my photos for life. Gemini solves this issue.I think I spent probably a solid 30-45 minutes yesterday decluttering my photo collection. I know that sounds rough, but I cleared thousands of unnecessary files - something that would have previously taken numerous hours. Not only that, they almost make this process fun with swiping your photos to the keep pile or the trash pile. The way the app organized groups of photos was phenomenal - sometimes I’ll take 20 photos to get that 1 good one. With this app, I’m able to delete the other 19 in one tap.What I absolutely loathe about this app is the subscription model. I’m beating a dead horse here, but this is a product that we should be able to pay for once. With how great it is, I’d easily pay $20 for this app and keep it for life. Unfortunately, that’s not an option. Thankfully, because of the its efficiency, I was able to cancel the subscription before my trial expired all while successfully decluttering my phone.

5coot, Aug 19, 2022

Save your $!! Horrible customer support

I subscribed to this app (monthly charge) and have been (trying) to use it for several months and have had some issues with it. Lots of small glitches but still workable, if there was an issue I could usually find a workaround . I then ran into an issue that I couldn’t work around and needed help from support. I emailed and was told I would get a response within 48 hours. Didn’t happen. I emailed 2 more times over the course of the next two weeks asking for some kind of response so I know my issue has been seen and they are working on it. Nothing. After 2+ weeks I get an email with an apology and asking if I’m still having the same issue. Yes, yes I am. (If you had bothered to check my account before replying you would have known that). So they toss the ball back in my court and say I have 48 hours to respond before they “close the ticket”. Then, they close the ticket 24 hours later. I don’t check my email for a day (in remote area, no cell service) and I have an email response that they could have figured out themselves if they did 10 seconds of research, and an email closing the ticket that I inquired about multiple times for 2+ weeks. Such great customer service for an app I pay to use.

Amiyam12345, Oct 14, 2019

SLOW with Live Photos. Annoying.

I downloaded this app (with a free 3 day trial) and a different app called Remove Master (free but has some ads) because Lucie Fink mentioned them both in a recent video about decluttering our digital spaces. I like the concept of this app, but I really REALLY strongly dislike how long it was taking to load my pictures. Every attempt to use it makes me wanna pull out my hair in frustration at the slowness. I noticed it mentioned the photos were “live” and I waited for one to load and checked and yup, they’re loading live which really slows this process down. Unlike Remove Master where I cleared out two months worth of unwanted pictures in literally just a couple of minutes (because they don’t load live there). I double checked to see if I could find a setting to make the photo not load live but I don’t see anything for that, and if it’s there it’s not intuitive. My recommendation is the app make the picture load on default NOT live and allow the option to view live. But pay for this slowness? No way. Canceling immediately.

Auror3740, Sep 04, 2020

Almost cool

I was really excited to find this app! I have several of MacPaw’s apps, and I was needing something like this. But there is one glaring problem (kind of two). It doesn’t allow for you to either adjust how close you want it to match similar items, or doesn’t have an “exact” and “similar” difference. Sure it would be nice to remove similar photos, but what about just duplicates. I have no way to adjust that. I found one app eventually that I use now. It has a section for exact duplicate photos, then one for similar, and you can set how similar you want them to be before they show up on the list. I also felt like the “best photo” algorithm didn’t work too well. I saw too many poor photos being picked as the one to keep. It would try to get rid of the HDR photos, ones where people are actually looking at the camera (and try to keep the one where they aren’t) and even tried to say the same background, but different people were similar photos, and try to delete one of them. It turned out to be too risky to even try it, so I went with the other app.

Blair West, Oct 18, 2018

Does Okay

Gemini II does help speed up the de-dupe process considerably. I would recommend it if you have hundred or thousands of duplicates or triplicates like I had. 10,000 photos is now down to 5,000. Unfortunately, there are a few things about the app that make me frown. It doesn’t yet work on videos. Portrait mode only which is odd on the iPad. Asks for a review every time the app is used. Every time. Shows instructions on how to add Siri Shortcuts every time the app is used. Every time. Some photos are flagged as dupes when they’re wildly different - probably due to a similar file name or metadata.Overall Gemini II does a good job for what it’s meant to do . . . with a few annoying head-scratching choices from the developer. I already bought the app, stop with the pop-ups. Like many other apps, please just let me use it without “helpful” advice that gets in the way of me enjoying it.

ericdalen, Jan 12, 2021

Very useful tool

This is great!! I was in despair over my photos. Over 12,000, just out of control. Multiple duplicates, dumb videos, including random mistakes like my feet as I’m walking, not realizing my video was on. Lots of what the call “similars,” where I shoot. Scene or person multiple times to get the best shot.....in short, this app temporarily sorts your photos when you hit a category like “similar.” Then it show you the 4 shots of your Mom that you took at your sister’s wedding and dubs one of them the best. Then I glance at the others, to see if I agree. Usually I agree and hit the button that discards the others. (You can also recover them if you went too fast.) or select a different one. The app is ALWAYS correct on the technical aspects, but you may like one take better because Aunt Judy was in the shot and that’s the only shot you have of them together. Or you can keep several of the “simillars” and dump a few. You’re always in control. You can work on those photos for 10 min while you’re waiting for something. I have dumped almost half my photos in just a couple of weeks using it between other activities. Whoever developed this is my kind of a genius.

GingerCH, Mar 30, 2021

Not perfect, but pretty close

I’ve tried several photo library clean up tools, and this is far and away the best and easiest I’ve tried between its easy interface, intuitive categories, and detection of similar pictures. On this last point, the similar detection is good but with lots of room for improvement. It often flags pictures of different people in the same setting as similar, which is not really what most people mean by potential duplicate photos. The automatic selection of a best option in a group is handy and works well with 2-3 truly similar pictures. But you really do have to review any larger sets manually. Fortunately, the app makes this easy and fast to do. I am a little baffled why some of the cleanup categories don’t allow you to explicitly keep pictures, but keeps photos you want to hang onto in those buckets seemingly forever. It would be nice to see that little inconsistency addressed in an update.

jrothstein, Jan 05, 2023

Nothing within the app is free

I downloaded this app for 3 specific reasons: 1. For the editing tools, like the option to blur the backgrounds of my photos. 2. For the “clean up albums & clear up space” feature. This automatic grouping feature is capable of automatically sorting through your albums and selecting things like blurry, low quality images that you can delete to clear up space. 3. Because it was SUPPOSED to be free. That’s why it gets 1 star — it was listed as a free app yet there wasn’t any of the features available unless you sign up for a monthly MINIMUM fee of $4.99. This means you download this app thinking some of these cool tools are supposed to be free yet none are. It only starts you on a “free trial” that will charge you for the app “renewal” automatically unless you catch it & cancel it. So basically useless as a “free app.” The fact that this app was intentionally misleading is what makes me lose respect & made me totally u willing to pay for the services within the app. I don’t like feeling scammed. I’m going 2 download a truly “free” app with similar features now. I also found snap seed, which I already found more useful (although it’s not got these exact features) but I’ll be hunting a non-misleading app to assist in clearing up photo space… or I’ll just manually go through & delete the duplicates, and accidental snaps that clutter my phone. That might be more time consuming but at least it’s free!

Kendralovespearljam, Jul 27, 2021

A resonant assistant for your photos!

Love this app! I had almost 5,000 duplicates on my devices. The time it saved me in sorting through all my cherished moments in life is priceless because now I have time to spend with my family and take more photos of them while making memories with them instead of sitting in front of my Mac going through the 2T of images I have!! You can’t put a price on spending time with those you love when in retrospect I would have never been given that extra time without an app like Gemini!! Thanks a million to the brilliant developers that created an app for shutterbugs like myself! You’re A #1 in my book! So, If you pull out your phone for just about every moment in your life and/or if your sick of your phone storage constantly off loading apps because your photos app is plum full and if you’ve ever gone to take a photo and you can’t because your storage on your iPhone is fifty mega bites from being completely full then you need this ap as bad as I did! Download it, you will NOT regret it and you can thank me later! 😉😉.

Misses Hippy, Apr 18, 2020

A hard chore made simple and quick

I had over 8,000 photographs in my Photos library. I had been trying to manually clean out duplicates, but didn’t get very far. I now have closer to 6,000 after Gemini identified duplicates, blurred photos, and other potential “why’d I ever keep this” images.Not quite perfect, Gemini too often identified a time series of photos as duplicates, especially the sunsets and tropical animals I shot while on vacation. But by showing the shots and a suggested keep/delete it still sped up the process greatly. Gemini does mark keep if I decide to keep more than one of the duplicates. It does not, however, do the same for screenshots or blurred which, increasingly, includes iPhone photos using portrait mode. I still use Gemini after that initial cleaning. It is most useful following a photo session and before editing to identify which of the many photos are worth editing.

OldFogeyNY, Mar 08, 2021

Description

SUGGESTS YOU THE GOOD PHOTOS those you seem to prefer, like edited and favorited those with faces in them, with smiles and open eyes photos in good focus SELECTS THE NOT-SO-GOOD ONES all but the best in a set of similar photos those with closed eyes blurred ones HELPS CLEAN OUT THE CLUTTER screenshots, exact duplicates, photos of text, and other clutter AND SORTS YOUR ENTIRE LIBRARY Go through every media file you keep. Swipe up if you want it, and down if you don’t. Simple as that.

LEAVES THE FINAL SAY TO YOU flip through selected media to make sure you don’t want them select something else if you don’t like the app’s suggestions tap Move to Trash to remove selected files and tap Empty Trash to delete them for good BONUS FEATURE: PHOTO RADAR Keeps the “Storage Full” pop-up at bay. Gemini watches out for the new shots and videos and makes sure they don’t pile up again. The payment and subscription terms: Choose between the following subscription options: Monthly Subscription - $4.99 per month - gives you unlimited access to removing Similar Photos. Annual Subscription - $19.99 per year - gives you unlimited access to removing Similar Photos. One Time Purchase - $34.99 offers you unlimited access to removing Similar Photos. Free trial terms: Free trial for monthly subscription in Gemini Photos allows you unlimited access to removing Similar Photos for the duration of 3 days. Your account will be charged for renewal, in accordance with monthly subscription plan for $4.99 per month, within 24 hours prior to the end of the 3 day trial period. You can cancel your free trial at any time before 24 hours prior to converting your account to a auto-renewable subscription. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal, in accordance with your plan, within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or turn off auto-renew in your Apple ID account settings any time after purchase. *** Manage your subscription directly from your iPhone *** Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. 1. Tap the “Settings” icon on your mobile, then tap the “Store” icon. 2. Sign in with your iTunes ID. 3. Tap “View Apple ID” then “Manage App Subscriptions”. 4. You will be able to see when your next payment is due, or cancel your automatic renewal. *** You may cancel your subscription at any time *** Renewal of your monthly subscription is automatic. You can cancel this automatic renewal at any time, at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. Please note, any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when making a purchase of an auto-renewing subscription. Privacy policy: http://macpaw.com/policy Terms of use: http://macpaw.com/eula