sWipe

A fun app to organise and remove clutter from your gallery

Description

sWipe – Smart & Fun Media Cleanup

sWipe is an open-source media management app designed to help users declutter their photo and video library effortlessly. Instead of aimlessly scrolling through social media, sWipe lets you scroll with purpose—cleaning up your gallery with intuitive swipe gestures.

Features

  • Swipe-Based Sorting

  • Swipe Left → Trash: Moves media to a staging area for review before deletion.

  • Swipe Right → Keep: Retains media in the gallery.

  • Free & Open Source

  • No locked features, no subscriptions

  • Privacy Focussed

Future Improvements

  • Daily Cleanup Goals

  • Helps users declutter in small, manageable steps instead of overwhelming them.

  • Smart Insights & Stats

  • Tracks photo-taking habits and generates a heatmap of media activity.

  • Provides insights into how frequently users capture photos and videos.

  • Publish on fdroid

  • Add WebDAV support

  • We are eager to add WebDAV support so you can cleanup media in remote web directories like NextCloud

  • iOS Support


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🛠 Build from Source

Prerequisites

  • Android Studio (latest stable version), we used an emulator from this

  • JDK 17+

  • Android SDK & build tools

sWipe is written in React Native and Expo and built for Android

git clone https://github.com/madhavpcm/sWipe.git 
npm install
npx eas build --platform android --profile development # Should generate ApK
npx expo start # Starts Development server with expo

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