Hand-crafted · Private · Built to last
Your library is your legacy — but most of it is hidden in plain sight. Tens of thousands of moments stacked by date, with no shape, no story, no way to find what matters — or pass it on. Photo Flashlight is a hand tool for finding the structure that's already there. Illuminate it. Tag it. Keep it.
How it works
Most photo apps offer a grid and a search bar and wish you luck. Photo Flashlight gives you hand tools — a sorter, a stack, a tag — built for the patient work of bringing order to a lifetime of pictures. We use machine learning to give you a foothold, not to do the work for you. The structure is yours.
01 · Sweep to Stack
Drag your finger across your library. The photos you touch leave the grid and land on a stack — out of sight, out of the way. Selection keeps photos as visual noise. Stacking clears the way to the next decision.
02 · Stack to Piles
Once you have a stack, the same sweep splits it into piles. Tag the whole stack at once, or work pile by pile. The motion you used to gather is the motion you use to sort. Nothing new to learn.
03 · Inbox Zero
Your inbox holds everything you haven't decided on yet. Tag a photo and it's gone — you only see what's still asking for your attention. Apply the discipline you already use for email to the 47,000 photos on your phone.
Tag intersection
Strict filters are too narrow. Loose filters are too noisy. Photo Flashlight groups photos by tag intersection — every picture that shares all of your selected tags, and nothing else.
Pick Beach and Mom and you see beach photos with Mom — not all your beach photos plus all your photos of Mom. The middle ground that AND and OR can't reach.
Privacy by design
Your photos never leave your phone. Photo Flashlight stores a perceptual fingerprint for each picture — a small hash that recognizes the image without containing it. That's how your tags follow you to a new device, and how the legacy you build stays yours to give.
Pricing
Three tiers. The one you pick depends on how much your library moves between devices — not on which features you get to use. The whole app is in the free tier.
Free
$0
Forever, on one device.
Export
$5.99 one-time
Move libraries anywhere. Pay once.
Sync
$3.99 / month
Live sync across your devices.
Free to download. Free to use forever. The whole app, in your hands — no algorithm deciding what's yours, no servers holding your photos hostage. The archive you build is yours, and it's ready to be passed on.