PhotoDuel — May the best photo win!

The problem

Ten photos of the same sunset. You shared zero of them.

You took 47 shots of your kid's birthday. 12 nearly-identical food pics. Three bursts of the dog. Somewhere in there is an incredible photo — and nobody, including you, will ever see it.

14,200 Avg. photos
on an iPhone

< 4% Ever leave
the camera roll

10 That you'd actually
want to share

How it works

Three beats. That's the whole app.

We stole the idea from chess rankings and speed-dating. Turns out it works great for photos, too.

Two photos, one winner.

Swipe up on the one you like better. Or tap. Or use the buttons. Your thumb decides, not an algorithm.

A ranked leaderboard emerges.

Every duel sharpens the ranking. After a few minutes, your best photos are at the top — and you never had to compare all 2,847 of them.

Export the good ones.

Send your top 10 (or top 50, or your whole ranked list) to a fresh album in Photos. Print them, share them, actually enjoy them.

The details that matter

Your best photos. Easier to find.

Every feature exists for one reason — to help your best work rise to the surface, so the photos worth sharing actually get shared.

Projects, not piles.

Duel inside a scoped set — "Mexico 2025", "Kids in 2024", "Favorites I haven't sorted." Mix albums, dates, people, and places exactly like the Photos app lets you.

Filter anything the Photos API exposes

Fast or thorough — your call.

Fast mode halves your photos each pass. Thorough mode gives losers a second chance. Pick the pace. Stop whenever you want. Resume later.

Two pass modes · Any batch size

Share your ten best, not your five hundred.

Export your top 10, top 50, or the whole ranking to a real album in Photos. The one you send to your family group chat. The one you actually show your coworkers after the trip.

Native Photos album export

A "maybe delete" pile you review.

PhotoDuel never deletes anything itself. It can gather the photos you ranked lowest into a review album — you open the Photos app, flip through, and choose what actually goes. Full control, every time.

Your call · Always

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Your photos never leave your phone.

PhotoDuel is an on-device app. We don't upload your photos, we don't train on them, we don't look at them. Ever. The only thing that gets synced is the outcome of each duel — a few kilobytes of "A beat B", nothing more.

No cloud · No uploads · No account required

Your camera roll
is a mess.
Let's fix it.