Zenalbum
Swipe your photos into albums
What to expect
No more messy camera roll. Once a week, Zenalbum shows you only the photos you haven’t sorted yet, grouped by moment. One swipe and a whole batch goes into the right album. Everything happens on your phone.
- Once a week, only your new photos. A reminder lets you know (Sunday at 6 pm, or whenever you like).
- In batches: photos from the same moment come together, and a single swipe files them all.
- Four gestures: up, into the album shown; right, into another album; down, to the bin; left, keep it without sorting.
- Double-tap a photo to make it a favourite, and ↩️ undoes your last gesture.
- Big clean-up: sort the photos from past years too, at your own pace.
- Everything happens on your phone: your photos are not sent anywhere.
On iPhone, a photo filed in an album also stays in your Library: that’s how Apple’s Photos app works.
Help and questions
How do credits work?
The free version gives you 25 credits a week, reset to 25 every Monday: 1 credit = 1 photo sorted (filed, binned or kept). A batch of 10 photos costs 10 credits. Favourites are free and “Undo” gives the credit back. An ad you choose to watch gives you 10 extra credits, which carry over from week to week.
How do I remove the ads?
With the “No ads & unlimited” purchase: one single payment, no subscription, for no more ads and unlimited sorting. You get it back with the “Restore purchases” button in Settings.
Where do the photos I file go?
On iPhone, into real albums in the Photos app (you can also create folders); the photo also stays in your Library. On Android, an album is a folder on your phone (Pictures/album name) and the photo is moved into it.
Deleted a photo by mistake?
Nothing is deleted while you sort: at the end of the session you review the bin (tap a photo to keep it), then your phone asks for confirmation. After that, the photo stays for up to 30 more days in “Recently Deleted” (iPhone) or in the bin (Android).
Are my photos sent anywhere?
No. Everything happens on your phone. See the privacy policy.
What about my Google Photos albums?
Albums stored in the Google Photos cloud can’t be accessed by other apps: on Android, Zenalbum files the photos on your phone into folders on your phone.
Privacy
The app asks for no account, no name and no email address, and the studio collects nothing. Your photos are read on the phone, only to show them and file them in the albums you choose: the app never sends them anywhere. The free version shows Google AdMob ads, which process certain data from your device according to the choices you make in the consent form.
Terms
Licence. The app is provided under Apple’s standard licence agreement for apps (EULA).
In-app purchases. The app is free to download; purchases are optional: “No ads & unlimited”. The price is shown on the App Store before each purchase. You pay with your Apple Account: Apple collects the payment and handles the sale, under its Media Services terms and conditions.
- “No ads & unlimited”: paid once, no subscription, it can be restored with the same Apple Account, including on another device: Settings › Restore purchases.
- Refunds: requests are made to Apple (how to request a refund).