PicChan

PicChan is a photo library assistant that lives inside a conversation. No settings maze, no buttons buried five levels deep — open the app and talk to your photo library the way you'd text a friend who happens to be great at organizing. WHAT IT CAN DO FOR YOU • Find any photo by describing it. "My dog catching a frisbee at the park" — PicChan searches by what's actually in the picture, and shows every match, not just the first. • Clean up bursts. Shot the same scene ten times? PicChan groups near-identical photos and suggests which one to keep. Anything removed goes to your iPhone's Recently Deleted, never straight to the trash. • Build albums you'll actually recognize. Family, trips, food, pets — sorted while you do nothing. No photo is ever moved without asking. • Relive a whole trip in one ask. "Every photo from that trip" works even when your photos carry no place labels, and groups them by day. • Ask about a single photo. Don't remember when or where a shot was taken? Ask it — date, place, and camera, answered on the spot. Swipe through the set and ask each one. • Search what's inside the picture. Receipts, notes, signs, screenshots — text in your photos is searchable too. HONEST BY DEFAULT If something didn't sort right, PicChan tells you instead of sweeping it under the rug — it flags its own misses and offers to fix them. You always make the final call on anything that changes your library. PRIVACY, STRAIGHT ANSWERS A lot of the organizing happens right on your iPhone, with no network needed: content tagging, reading text in photos, spotting near-duplicates. When a step genuinely needs the cloud, PicChan says so first — what gets sent (a small preview, never your full-resolution photo) and what it may cost — before it runs. Nothing leaves your phone unless it tells you first. BRING YOUR OWN AI PicChan doesn't sell you an AI subscription. It works with the AI service you already use — connect your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Ollama account or server in a couple of taps. You pay your provider directly, at their prices, and PicChan spells out which steps use it. GOOD TO KNOW • No account, no sign-up — PicChan has no servers of its own. • Deletions always go through your iPhone's Recently Deleted. • Edits create new photos; your originals are never overwritten. • Works in English, Simplified Chinese, and French.