Tend PhotosBuilt for huge libraries
A reliable, progressive on-device scan that keeps its footing at 50,000+ photos. Results appear as it runs on Apple’s PhotoKit, so you can start reviewing right away instead of waiting for the whole library.
№ · Mac
Tending is caring.
The photo cleaner built for your biggest library.
Tend Photos runs natively on your Mac and stays reliable on libraries of tens of thousands of photos — finding duplicates, scoring the best shot, and freeing up iCloud storage. All on your device, and nothing is deleted until you approve it.
local · no account · no subscription
The advantages on Mac
What Tend does best on Mac.
See why each keeper wins
Every recommendation shows the sharpness, exposure, and resolution behind it, side by side. It’s fast to work through with keyboard and pointer — and you can always pick a different shot.
Entirely on your Mac
Works with Apple Photos with no account and no upload. Its App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected. Free, with no subscription and nothing to upgrade to remove.
The process
Three steps. Nothing irreversible.
1
Scan
Point Tend at your iCloud Photos library. A fast local scan finds duplicates, near-duplicates, and quality differences across the whole collection — no uploading, no waiting.
2
Review
Move through groups with keyboard and pointer, see the keeper for each, and decide what stays. The differences in a burst are easy to miss at a glance; Tend surfaces them.
3
Approve
Select photos, review the full list, and type DELETE to confirm. Every action is logged in a local history, and nothing changes without your explicit sign-off.
A real look
Real screenshots from Mac.
New on Mac
Now: turn photos into a story.
Pick a story type — Trip, Event, or Year in Review — and Tend gathers your best photos into an auto-curated story, already grouped into chapters, with a print-ready PDF export. Free during this release. See how Story Mode works →