No account
No account. Ever.
Nothing to sign up for. Each device makes its own keys, and they never leave it. There is no profile of you anywhere for us to lose.
- Never asked
- Phone number
- Never asked
- Password
- Never asked
Photo library sync · iPhone · Android · Mac
One library.
Every device.
No cloud photo storage.
sync.photos keeps your photos, videos and albums in step across your own iPhone, Android phone and Mac. Device to device, end-to-end encrypted. On the same Wi-Fi, no internet needed.
Light table — 16 frames, 1 library
Same library, any screen.
Albums stay albums. Synced albums sit in Photos like any other album, and Live Photos keep their motion.Albums become folders. Gallery apps show albums as folders. Every album stays complete inside sync.photos.The Mac joins in. sync.photos works with the Photos app on your Mac and can wait in the menu bar for your phones.
Same frames, same dates. Only the screen around them changes.
00 — One line
One line, every device.
Your devices talk to each other directly. There is no cloud library in the middle, just one encrypted line from device to device.
End-to-end encrypted
No cloud copy
iPhone
Android
Mac
Device to device
Photos travel between your own iPhone, Android phone and Mac, never into a cloud library. We never keep a copy.
End-to-end encrypted
Only your paired devices can read what’s sent, album names included.
Same Wi-Fi, no internet
On the same Wi-Fi, sync runs without an internet connection at all.
01–04 — Four frames
Pair once. Then just sync.
Four steps, about a minute the first time. After that, open the app and tap Sync.
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Pair with a QR code
Open sync.photos on both devices. One shows a QR code, the other scans it. No account, no email, no password.
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Check the numbers
Both screens show the same six digits. If they match, tap Codes match. If not, cancel: someone may be trying to join.
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Review
See what’s coming and going first. Time left in plain words, like about 4 min 7 secs. Free space checked on both devices, and a reminder to stay on the same Wi-Fi while internet sync is off.
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Sync
Files go straight across and are checked on arrival. If the connection drops, it picks up where it stopped.
05 — What comes along
Your albums come along.
Not just copies of files. The same library, organised the same way, on every device you own.
Info — IMG_4821.HEICComes along
- Original quality
- Every photo and video arrives in its original quality and is checked before it joins your library.
- Dates and places
- Capture dates and places come along, so photos land in the right year and month, not on the day you synced them.
- Albums and folders
- Albums stay albums on iPhone and Mac. On Android they appear as gallery folders, and every album stays complete inside sync.photos.
- Live Photos
- The motion is kept, so it moves again on your iPhones. Android shows the still.
Stays on each device
- People
- Memories
- Smart albums
- Shared albums
- Hidden, by default
People and Memories are made by each device’s own gallery, so they can’t be copied. The Hidden album stays put unless you choose otherwise.
06 — Nothing is deleted
Nothing is deleted.
Sync only adds. Delete a photo on one device and the others keep theirs. Stop syncing an album and every copy stays where it is.
- Deleted on this iPhone
iPhone — removed here only
- 2026-06-11 · Lisbon
Android — still here
- 2026-06-11 · Lisbon
Mac — still here
Review before anything moves
See what’s coming, what’s going and what stays private before you tap Start sync.
Pick and choose
Keep the Work album off one phone. Mark single photos Never Sync so they never leave the phone.
Honest about limits
A removed or lost phone keeps the photos it already has. No app can erase another phone remotely.
07 — Private by design
Private by design.
End-to-end encrypted
Only your paired devices can read what’s sent: photos, dates, places and album names.
Exclusions come first
Excluded photos are filtered out before anything leaves the device. The other device never learns they exist.
Storage
Never on our servers.
Photos go from device to device, never into storage of ours. We don’t keep them, ever.
Connection service
A tiny helper, nothing more.
A small connection service helps your devices find each other. It sees no photos and no album names.
Handles briefly
- Temporary session IDs
- IP addresses
Never sees
- Photos and videos
- File names, dates and places
- Album names
08 — Nearby or anywhere
Nearby by default. Anywhere when you want.
On by default
Nearby sync
- Both devices on the same Wi-Fi
- No internet connection needed
- Fastest way to do the first big sync
Off by default
Internet sync
- Turn it on in Settings
- Your devices can be anywhere
- Works while sync.photos is open on both devices
With Internet sync off, both devices need to stay on the same network until a sync finishes. Review tells you how long that will be before you start.
09 — Mac
Your Mac can stay on watch.
Leave the Mac running with sync.photos in the menu bar. Your phones sync with it whenever they’re on the same Wi-Fi with the app open.
Works with the Photos app on your Mac
sync.photosReady
iPhone 16 ProNearby · syncing
Pixel 9On this Wi-Fi
iPhone 13 miniAway
Waiting for phones on this Wi-Fi
10 — Quick answers
Questions people ask first.
Q01Does sync.photos use iCloud or Google Photos?
No. Photos go directly from one of your devices to another. If you also have iCloud Photos or Google Photos backup turned on, those keep working as before, and they will back up what arrives on that device.
Q02Does it ever delete my photos?
No. Sync only adds. Deleting a photo on one device does not delete it on the others, and turning sync off for an album never removes copies that are already there.
Q06Why is internet sync off by default?
Nearby sync on the same Wi-Fi needs no internet and nothing passes through anyone else. Internet sync is there when your devices are far apart; turn it on in Settings. Until then, both devices need to stay on the same network until a sync finishes, and Review tells you how long that will be.
Q08Does it work with Photos on my Mac?
Yes. The Mac app syncs with the Photos library on your Mac and can stay in the menu bar, so your phones can sync with it whenever they are on the same Wi-Fi and sync.photos is open on the phone.
11 — Get the app
Bring your library together.
Install sync.photos on every device you want in step, pair them once, and the library follows.
- iPhone
- iOS 26+
- Android
- 11+
- Mac
- macOS 26+
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