Privacy Policy
The short version: Swoto collects nothing. No account, no ads, no analytics. Your photos never leave your iPhone.
Access to your photos
Swoto asks for access to your photo library so it can show you your photos one at a time. With that access the app only does what you ask it to: mark a photo as a favourite (swipe up), make an album out of a trip and delete photos. Nothing is deleted until you confirm it in Swoto's own Trash, and iOS then asks you to confirm once more. Deleted photos stay in "Recently Deleted" in Photos for another thirty days.
If you give Swoto access to a selection of your photos, the app only ever sees those. You can change that access at any time in Settings, under Privacy & Security, then Photos.
What Swoto keeps on your iPhone
To do its job, Swoto remembers a few things, and only in the app's own storage on your iPhone: which photos you have already reviewed, which photos are in the app's Trash, your progress (reviewed, deleted, space freed), things it has measured about photos before (file size, sharpness, image characteristics) and which albums Swoto made for your trips. None of this is sent anywhere. You can clear the list of reviewed photos in Settings, and everything goes when you delete the app.
Image analysis
To find blurry and failed photos, receipts, look-alikes and photos saved more than once, Swoto looks at small copies of your photos using Apple's built-in image analysis (Vision). That happens entirely on your own iPhone. Nobody is recognised or identified, and nothing goes to a server.
Place names
When a photo carries a location, Swoto shows where it was taken, and a trip is named after the place. For that, the app sends only the coordinates to Apple's map service, the same one Photos and Maps use. The photo itself is never sent. Swoto remembers the place name on your iPhone, so the same spot is not looked up twice. See also Apple's privacy policy.
Notifications
Reminders are off until you switch them on in Settings, and iOS asks for your permission the first time. They are local notifications: your iPhone schedules them itself, counting from the last time you swiped. No server is involved and nothing about your photos is in them.
No tracking
Swoto has no ads, no analytics software and no third-party code. The app does not track you, inside the app or anywhere else.
Changes
If anything about this policy ever changes, because of a new feature for instance, this page is updated before that feature appears.
Last updated: 15 October 2026 · Help and contact