Nytcrew: an on-device app that quietly sorts your photo gallery overnight
A developer built Nytcrew to tidy a Pixel phone holding 8,743 photos, running cleanup while the device charges overnight. A local model on the phone judges which images are useful and asks the user to review uncertain ones, so photos stay on the device. Only text with personal details like emails, links, handles, and long digit strings is masked before a small amount of remaining text goes to a cloud function. Each keep or delete decision trains the model to better predict the user's preferences, and the app has shifted from a cloud-based design to a local one. Scanning takes about 65 seconds per photo on a Pixel 8a, so the app pauses for 10 minutes whenever the phone overheats.
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