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Native iPhone and iPad photo/video albums, AirDrop packages, and resumable Photos imports.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 28 upvotes (top 45%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- airdrop
- file-transfer
- ios
- photos
- swift
- swiftui
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Partial While an iOS app handling Photos and files is standard, reliably handling large batch imports, background execution constraints, and custom archive formats without OS memory terminations requires deep platform knowledge.
What it would actually take: The app is written in Swift/SwiftUI using Apple's Photos framework (`PHPhotoLibrary`) and custom package decompression (ZIP/custom container). The primary technical barrier is navigating iOS's strict background execution limits, memory footprint ceilings during massive photo/video decodes, and maintaining state across app suspension, requiring careful concurrency and file stream management.
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Attention rank: #419 of 898 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 347 days after the earliest competitor.
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