The photo dump app that picks your best shots for you

Yes. DUMP's Smart Dump looks at up to 180 photos on your iPhone, drops blurry shots, keeps only the sharpest of each burst or near-duplicate run, mixes people, places and close-up details, and puts everything in the order you took it. You swap anything you don't love. The picking runs on the device with Apple's Vision framework, so nothing is uploaded.

Pick a short window first: last weekend, last month or one trip. Drop the blurry shots and repeats, lead with your strongest photo, then alternate people, places and small details, with one short video for every three or four photos. Keep it in the order things happened. Smart Dump applies most of these rules for you, and you make the final call. More in the photo-picking guide.

Instagram allows up to 20 photos and videos in one carousel, but 8 to 12 is usually the sweet spot: enough to tell the story, short enough that people swipe to the end. On the free plan, Random Dump, Smart Dump and the Sunday draft build up to 10 items; with Premium, up to 20.

Yes. Turn on reminders and every Sunday, within the hours you allow, DUMP sends a notification that opens “Your week”: a draft of your best shots from the last 7 days, with your best shot as the cover and the rest in the order you took them. Check it, swap anything, save. The notification is scheduled on your iPhone; there is no server.

No. There is no account and no server. DUMP's App Store privacy label is “Data Not Collected”, the app contains no third-party SDKs, and you can make and save a whole dump in airplane mode. DUMP itself only talks to Apple's purchase system (StoreKit), when it checks or processes Premium. If you use iCloud Photos with Optimize iPhone Storage, iOS may download your own full-size originals from iCloud when DUMP shows or saves them; that's between your device and your iCloud account.

Only on your iPhone, and only to pick shots for you. Both Smart Dump and the Sunday draft read photos by date and use Apple's on-device Vision framework: Smart Dump judges sharpness, spots near-duplicates and counts faces (it never identifies who anyone is); the Sunday draft rates how good each photo looks, skips receipts and documents, and gives extra weight to your Favorites. To suggest trips, DUMP reads the location already stored in your photos. None of this leaves your device, and DUMP never asks for your current location. Details are in the privacy policy.

Not in Swipe Carousel mode. DUMP adds your original photos and videos to a new album in your order: nothing is re-encoded, resized or duplicated. The one exception is a photo you add a date stamp to, which is re-rendered as a high-quality JPEG. Collage, grid and template pages are rendered at 2160 px on the long edge and saved as 98%-quality JPEG (pages with video are saved as MP4). Instagram still compresses on upload; this way it only happens once.

After you save, tap Share to Instagram. DUMP copies your caption, and your slides are already in a new album in posting order. In Instagram, start a new post, pick that album, turn on multi-select and tap the slides in order, then paste the caption. Instagram only lets approved scheduling tools publish carousels to professional accounts through its API; DUMP has no account or server, so the last tap is yours.

DUMP is free to download and use, with no ads and no watermark on your images. On the free plan, Random Dump, Smart Dump and the Sunday draft build up to 10 items (20 with Premium), and you can keep up to 3 saved projects. DUMP Premium is optional: an auto-renewing weekly or yearly subscription; see the current price on the App Store. Cancel any time in Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions.

Yes, DUMP is a universal app for iPhone and iPad and needs iOS or iPadOS 18.6 or later. The current version is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish, and you can switch the language inside the app. There is no Android or web version.

No. The Caption Generator (Premium) gives you hand-written caption lines in six moods: Soft, Funny, Travel, Monthly Recap, Influencer and Minimal. You pick the mood; it doesn't look at your photos. On the free plan, text you copy from DUMP ends with a small #DumpApp tag, which Premium can turn off.