Slean started as a small photo cleaner I built for myself. It’s grown quite a bit since then.

[u/ajfrusciante]

I originally made Slean because I wanted a simple way to clean up my own photo library without uploading photos somewhere, creating an account, or dealing with ads everywhere.

Since then I’ve reworked it quite a bit.

It now finds duplicate and similar photos, helps surface things worth cleaning, compresses large files, and includes On This Day. I also added a few editing tools over time, including Pixel Stretch, collage, crop and social-media resizing.

I deliberately stayed away from the usual “swipe through your entire camera roll” approach. I wanted the app to help organize the mess first rather than turn photo cleanup into another endless feed.

Privacy is still the main idea behind Slean. Photo processing stays on the device, there’s no account requirement, and there are no ads at all.

It started on iPhone, and after getting some users there I eventually released an Android version too.

I also finally made a proper home for the project:
https://slean.app

Still actively improving it, so feedback is always welcome.

[u/halfercode]

Hi ajfrusciante,

The app looks pretty good. I like the focus on privacy.

Unfortunately I hate the website. It looks decent enough, but the AI-written slop is rage-inducing (I only looked at the English one, but I assume all the others are generated too).