Get the Best Out of Your Apple’s Photo App & Storage With this Tool
What Apple should have included natively a long time ago
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“iCloud Storage is Full”.
Ever run into that pop-up? I have. Not just once.
Apple Photos is a great service. iCloud syncs photos nicely, they’re on every device, suggestions are cool, AI-integration gets better, and you have that piece of mind in terms of data privacy and security with Apple. Can’t say that about Google Photo.
But Photos is far from perfect. There are some glaring issues.
Problem #1: You Can’t Sort by File Size in Photos
You’d think in the year 2025, when AI can generate a music video of you, we’d be able to sort your photos by size.
But nope.
Apple gives you little visibility into which photos and videos are hogging space. Because, let’s be real, they want us to pay for more iCloud storage.
That’s solution number one. More money per month.
The other solution is PhotoSort.
PhotoSort can show your biggest files with a feature called SizeSort, ranked largest to smallest. You can immediately spot which bloated videos or super-high-res images are eating up space. Export them to your Mac or an external drive, delete what you don’t need, and you might be able to skip the iCloud upgrade this time.
Problem #2: Your Photo Library
Let’s be honest. Most of us don’t have a “photo collection.” We have a photo situation.
You’ve got:
40 blurry pics that look like they’re from the 19th century
336 images of… well, nothing really
15 versions of the same group shot where someone always has their eyes closed
Screenshots of God knows what
And that picture of your thumb
But you also have hundreds of amazing, memory-filled images of your friends and family. Good luck finding them in a library of 80,000 images.
PhotoSort has something called QualitySort. This smart little feature creates an album inside your Photos app which ranks your photos by aesthetic and technical quality.
Yes, it’s AI is a useful way!
It brings the best shots to the top. Sharp, well-lit, framed properly.
It buries screenshots, junk images, and your thumb. Suddenly, photo curation doesn’t feel so daunting anymore.
Next steps:
favorite the good stuff
edit the almost-great ones
delete the rest
✔ tons of space saved
PhotoSort Inside Apple Photos
PhotoSort doesn’t try to replace Apple Photos. It works with it. It’s a practical add-on, basically.
Once you run the app, the SizeSort and QualitySort albums just show up right inside Photos, like a feature that should’ve always been there natively long ago.
No need to export everything or learn a new interface. No subscription. No sign-in. No cloud syncing weirdness.
It’s fast, clean, and local.
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Let’s Talk Money
PhotoSort app is free to download. Great!
But it gets even better. Stay with me.
With the free version, you get a taste — you can view the 30 largest files in your library. That’s enough to offload some megabyte monsters right away.
If you want the full shebang like sorting the entire library and creating the two albums for SizeSort and Quality Sort, it’s only a one-time payment of $4.99.
That’s basically unheard of nowadays. You pay more per month for most tools than you pay here forever.
It’s Not Just You
Responses to PhotoSort are great, too.
It recently hit #54 in the Mac App Store’s Photos & Videos chart, without flashy marketing or TikTok influencers.
The app’s available in English, French, German, Spanish (both ES and MX versions), and Russian.
The Bottom Line
Digital photo are awesome. I love seeing the memories from my childhood, my kids growing up, and my life’s highlights.
But it’s also crazily easy to hit hundreds of thousands of images in your iCloud storage. And never get around to “organizing” them properly.
PhotoSort is quietly doing this dirty work, sorting, organizing, pre-selecting. You do the rest. Saves a lot of time.
It’s totally worth the $4.99 for life.
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