You're not lazy. You're outnumbered.
Hundreds of near-identical shots. A handful make the cut. The math is the problem — not you.
Three steps. One of them is yours.
Sync
Auto-synced to your camera roll on iPhone — or upload a batch from the web. Either way, nothing to sort.
We choose
It culls, crops, and builds a finished carousel — and shows you why.
You post
Approve, and curator hands the set to Instagram or Facebook.
A finished set, not a folder
You don't have a photo problem. You have a choosing problem.
curator clusters the trip, culls the dupes, crops each shot for Instagram, and sequences them into a set that's ready to post.
Under the hood
Why these picks?
No black box. curator groups your shots by moment, drops the dupes and misses, scores what's left, then crops, relights, and orders the keepers — and shows you why each one made the cut.
Group by moment
Clusters the roll by scene, time & place.
Drop the misses
Cuts dupes, blur & blinks.
Score what's left
Ranks sharpness, light & faces.
Polish & sequence
Crops for Instagram, relights, orders to flow.
The wedge
Apple & Google Memories: 0 posts. curator: a ready carousel.
Apple Photos and Google Photos both spin up a pretty montage that dies in your camera roll. curator hands you a carousel and posts it to Instagram and Facebook.
Inside the app
From your roll to your feed.
See the picks and swap anything you don't love — curator re-suggests until it feels right, and learns your taste for next time.
Time back
Five minutes, not fifty.
A polished carousel by hand means scrolling, culling, cropping, captioning. curator does that part — you just approve and post.
≈ 45 minutes back per post. Post a few times a week and that's hours every month.
One-time or continuous
Two ways to clear the pile.
Use it once for a backlog, or keep it running so your feed never falls behind.
Dump one album
Sitting on a trip or an event? Drop a single album and get a finished, ready-to-post set back — no subscription, no commitment.
Always on, automatic
Stay synced and curator keeps clearing your pile as new days fill up — straight to camera-roll inbox zero.
On the roadmap
Where curator's headed.
Tap the ones you'd want — it tells us what to build next.
Questions, answered honestly.
Is curator an AI photo picker?+
Yes. curator is an AI photo picker for iPhone: it goes through your camera roll, picks the shots worth posting and builds them into a ready Instagram carousel or photo dump, cropped for Instagram, with an order and a caption draft. How it compares with other apps: Best AI photo picker apps for iPhone.
Is there an app that picks the best photos from my camera roll for Instagram?+
Yes, curator. It goes through your camera roll, drops the duplicates and weak shots, and hands you a ready post: the keepers, cropped for Instagram, in order, with a caption draft. You swap what you don't love and post it yourself. More in Which app picks the best photos for Instagram?.
What's the easiest way to make a photo dump from my vacation photos?+
Let curator sort the trip by day and place and build the dump for you. It picks a mix of wide views, details and faces, so the set doesn't feel like ten versions of the same view. Then you change anything you like and share it. Doing it by hand? Here are five steps.
How do I choose which photos to post after a trip?+
Go day by day, keep one shot per moment, and mix big views with small details. That's the method in How to choose photos to post after a trip. curator does the same thing for you and shows why it picked each photo.
Is there an app that turns my photos into an Instagram carousel?+
Yes. curator builds the carousel from your camera roll: it chooses the photos, crops them to Instagram's portrait format and puts them in an order that tells the day. It also suggests story picks. You post it through Instagram's normal share flow.
I have thousands of photos and never post. What can help?+
Start with one trip, not the whole roll. curator splits your roll into chapters by day and place and builds a post for each one, so the pile turns into posts one chapter at a time. With live curation, new days get sorted as you shoot. More in How to clear a camera roll backlog.
Can an app choose the best shot out of lots of similar photos?+
Yes. curator groups near-identical shots and bursts and keeps the strongest one, the frame with a clear subject, good light and a face that's actually looking. Every pick comes with a short "why", and you can always swap in a different one.
Does curator write the caption too?+
It writes a short caption draft for each post, based on what's in the photos and where they were taken. You can keep it, edit it or delete it before you post.
Is curator on Android?+
No, for now it's iPhone only. On a computer you can upload photos and review your picks in the web app at app.curator.so.
Is it only for trips?+
No. Trips are where the pile gets biggest, but curator works on any stretch of your roll: a weekend, a night out, a month of everyday life. Live curation keeps up as new days fill your roll.
How is it different from Apple Memories or Google Photos?+
Memories and Google Photos make videos to relive a moment. curator picks photos to post: a carousel or story set in Instagram's portrait format, with a caption draft, that you share yourself. Side-by-side comparison.
How does curator actually work?+
It reads your camera roll, sorts it by day and scene, culls the dupes and weak shots, crops the keepers for Instagram, lightly cleans them up, and arranges them into a finished carousel — then shows you why it picked each one. You approve, tweak, or swap before anything posts.
How many photos does it pick?+
However many the set actually needs — it adapts to the album, not a fixed count. A quiet day might be four; a big trip, ten or more. You can always add or drop one.
Is it AI, or a real person?+
All AI. No person looks through your camera roll; your photos are analyzed by our AI partners, Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude, under API terms that exclude model training.
Does it learn what I like?+
Yes. Every swap teaches it your taste, so each round of suggestions needs less tweaking than the last.
Does it post to my feed automatically?+
No — you approve every post. curator builds the set and hands it to Instagram or Facebook to publish. Nothing is posted without your tap.
One-time, or continuous?+
Both. Dump a single album for a one-off set, or keep it synced and curator keeps clearing your pile in the background, whenever a new day or trip fills up — Instagram & Facebook either way.
What happens to my photos?+
They stay yours. They're uploaded to your private account on our server in Switzerland, where curator sorts, groups and crops them; only downscaled copies go to our AI partners, Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude, for the scoring and composing steps. Nothing is posted without your tap, and you can delete your media or your account anytime. Details in the Privacy Policy.
What does it cost?+
No purchase needed to start: you get 5 credits for your first albums, and Live mode starts with a free trial. After that, plans start at $3.99 a month, or you buy credits one album at a time — all through the App Store, cancel anytime.
Are you affiliated with Instagram or Meta?+
No. curator is an independent app — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Instagram, Facebook, or Meta.
Stop scrolling your camera roll. Start posting from it.
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