Your camera roll,
one swipe at a time.
Cernita is Italian for sorting out the keepers. It deals your photos like a deck of cards: keep the ones you love, toss the ones you don't, and watch the free space add up.
Three moves. That's the whole app.
No albums, no grids, no decision fatigue. One photo at a time, starting wherever you point it - the 2014 backlog, or the shots from this morning.
Swipe left to toss
Blurry shots, duplicates, screenshots of Wi-Fi passwords - flick them left and they line up in your delete tray. Nothing is deleted yet.
Swipe right to keep
Keepers fly off to the right and never come back around. Change your mind mid-swipe? One tap undoes it.
Confirm the batch
After twenty tosses, Cernita shows you the pile - with the space you'll get back - and asks once. Say the word and they're gone.
Small swipes, big payoffs.
Four things that happen without ever leaving the deck: the space comes back, your favorites sync, the good ones get sent, and the deck deals in the order you asked for.
Space you can see coming back
Every toss lands in the delete tray and the freed number climbs with it. Confirm the batch and the storage bar moves for real.
Favorite without losing rhythm
Tap the star or swipe up. It becomes the real favorite in Apple Photos, synced both ways, and the deck keeps dealing.
Share straight from the card
Message, AirDrop, or copy at full quality. No album detour, no lost place - you are back on the next photo in a second.
Start at 2014, or at this morning
Oldest first by default, so the backlog goes first. Flip to newest and today's burst comes up next - and either way, the photos you already reviewed never come back around.
Everything you need mid-swipe.
Sorting fast only works if you never have to leave the deck - so you don't.
Videos and GIFs too
Videos play right on the card, muted and looping, with their length on the label. GIFs animate. Big files are the biggest wins - their sizes count in every batch.
Favorite on the fly
Tap the star or swipe up - it's the real favorite in Apple Photos, synced both ways, without breaking your rhythm.
Start anywhere
Open your whole roll by month, filter to favorites, screenshots, videos, or any album, and tap any photo to start swiping right there.
One album at a time
Pick any Photos album and the deck holds only that. Group a person's photos into an album in Photos first, and you can clear them out in one sitting.
Trim, don't toss
Three minutes of video for eight good seconds? Drag two handles, tap Trim, and the short clip keeps the original's date while the rest goes to Recently Deleted. The space comes back.
Turn it right side up
Sideways photo or video? Tap rotate until it looks right, then keep it. The fix saves to Apple Photos, where you can still revert it. Swipe to delete and nothing is saved.
The facts, on tap
Tap the date and the card shows megapixels, resolution, file size, format, frame rate, and tags like Screenshot, Live, or Burst of 7. It stays up card after card until you tap again.
Share mid-sort
Found one worth sending? Message, AirDrop, or copy it straight from the card - full quality, no detour.
Zoom in to judge
The full photo always fits the card - never cropped - and a pinch takes you to 5x with sharp pixels, so blurry fakes don't survive.
Badges & high fives
Tiers for photos sorted and space freed - from First Sweep at 50 MB to Storage Slayer at 25 GB. Cross one and the confetti flies.
Fast enough to be fun. Careful enough to relax.
Nothing deletes itself
Swipes only mark photos. Deletion happens in one confirmed batch - you see every photo and the megabytes you're freeing before anything goes.
30 days to change your mind
Deleted photos go to your iPhone's Recently Deleted album for 30 days. A wrong swipe is never a lost memory.
Watch the space come back
A running total of photos sorted and gigabytes freed keeps the momentum going. Clearing space feels like a game, not a chore.
Undo, always
Flicked the wrong way? The undo button rewinds your last swipes, and the card glides right back onto the deck.
Right where you left off
Close the app any time. Your place in the roll, your filter, and your delete tray are all there when you come back.
Progress on every device
Lifetime stats and badges sync through iCloud, so a new phone - or a reinstall - never wipes your bragging rights.
The tour never expires
The guided demo that opens the app stays one tap away - How to use Cernita, in About. Replay every gesture whenever you forget one, no reinstall needed.
Buy it once. Share it with the family.
Your first 20 swipes are free, so you can feel the deck before you decide. After that it is one small payment - no subscription, no renewal, no upsell. And because Cernita supports Apple Family Sharing, the people in your family group get it too, on their own phones, with their own photos.
Family Sharing is Apple's own feature: the purchase is shared, nothing else is. Everyone keeps their own photos, their own swipes, and their own stats.
Your photos never leave your phone.*
Cernita is entirely on-device. It has no server, no account, and no upload path - there is nowhere for your photos to go.
* Except the ones you toss. Those leave on purpose, and only the way you told them to: into Recently Deleted, after you confirm the batch, with 30 days to change your mind.
That storage warning isn't going to fix itself.
Cernita is coming to iPhone. A few minutes of swiping a day clears the backlog for good.
Coming to iPhone20 free swipes, then one small payment for the whole family. See pricing.