How it works
Most photo apps hand you a grid and a search bar and wish you luck. Photo Flashlight hands you tools with some heft to them — a sweep, a stack, a tag — so sorting feels less like data entry and more like handling prints at the kitchen table. Machine learning lends a foothold when you want one; the structure stays yours.
01 · Sweep the grid
Drag a finger across the grid and every photo you touch lifts off and gathers into one stack, a little tick landing under your fingertip each time. No checkboxes, nothing left behind — the grid clears as you go, and the next decision gets easier.
02 · Split the stack
A stack is everything you just gathered; piles are what you sort it into. Open the stack and the same sweep deals it out — this party, that trip, a maybe pile. One tap tags a whole pile, and yesterday's tags come back as suggestions, so the more you sort the faster it goes.
03 · Empty the inbox
Everything you haven't decided on waits in one place, and the counter ticks down as you go. Set yourself a small daily number if you want the nudge, or don't. Ten minutes at a sitting keeps it moving, and the count only ever goes down.
Grouped tag search
Search Emma's birthdays and Photo Flashlight returns every matching photo — still grouped by the other tags those photos carry.
The whole trail comes back in one pass, and the first birthday, the seventh, the fourteenth each keep their own pile. Easy to scan, nothing buried.
It's also why photos are happy wearing several tags. The birthday at the old apartment belongs to “Emma's birthdays” and “Our first apartment” both — search either trail, and the photo is there, keeping its place in each story.
