If you're paying for iCloud storage because your photo library has ballooned over the years, This Day might be worth a look. It's a new indie app featured in 9to5Mac's spotlight series that takes a different approach to photo cleanup.
Instead of facing down thousands of photos at once, This Day breaks the task into manageable chunks. You review and delete photos one day at a time, turning what feels like an impossible project into something you can actually finish.
The interface is designed around building a habit rather than forcing you through a marathon deletion session. For anyone who's ever opened their Photos app, felt overwhelmed, and immediately closed it again, this is a more realistic way to reclaim that storage space.
This matters if you're running AI tools locally or syncing large datasets. Storage constraints are real, and photo libraries are often the biggest culprit. A systematic cleanup approach means more room for the files that actually matter to your work.
The app comes from the indie developer community, which continues to find clever solutions to everyday problems that bigger companies overlook. Sometimes the best tool isn't the one with the most features, it's the one that actually gets you to do the thing you've been avoiding.
