I found a free Android app that makes deleting photos as easy as swiping left
I found a free Android app that makes deleting photos as easy as swiping left
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Publish Date: 2026-06-10 12:13:00
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ZDNET’s key takeaways
- If you need to clear space on your phone, Sponge has you covered.
- This app makes deleting old photos so fast and easy.
- The app is free, unless you need to delete videos and/or collections.
I don’t know about you, but my phone — a Pixel 9 Pro — is chock-full of photos and videos I’ve taken over the years, and they take up a lot of space. Vast amounts of space. Star Trek Discovery-levels of space.
Every once in a while, I realize that it’s time to clear out the cruft, which means going through the tedious task of deleting photos using the Google Photos app.
Aaack! (IYKYK.)
I’ve done this countless times, and it never fails to take much longer than I have any patience for.
Until now.
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I recently discovered an app with one purpose: to make deleting photos and videos as efficient as possible. In fact, the Sponge app takes a rather Tinder-like approach to deleting photos: swipe left to delete, swipe right to keep.
But Sponge takes this one step further by letting you delete individual photos, photos by date, or photos by collection.
With a single swipe, you can clear away those photos and/or videos that you no longer want. It’s so easy that the first time I used it, I couldn’t help but laugh. I’d been so accustomed to the Google Photos way of removing pics that having something exponentially faster and easier was a breath of fresh air.
On top of that, you can configure Sponge to remind you to delete photos.
Sweet.
One thing to keep in mind is that Sponge only deletes photos from your local device, not those in your Google Cloud account. This is good because it means you’ll always have a backup of the photos you delete.
Another caveat is that the free version can only delete photos, and only by the month. If you need to add video deletion (and photo deletion by collection), you have to pay for the…
