Move your photos, free your phone.

Photopho copies the photos and videos on your phone to your laptop over a data cable or the same Wi-Fi. Then, if you want, it deletes from the phone only what is proven safe on the laptop.

Download Photopho See how it works

Free. No account. No internet needed. Windows, Mac, Android and iPhone.

Four steps. Nothing leaves your home.

Your photos go from the phone straight to the laptop and nowhere else. There is no cloud in between.

01

Connect

Open Photopho on both. Your laptop finds the phone on the same Wi-Fi, or over a data cable. Pair once with a short code.

02

Pick photos

Choose everything, or only what you want. The oldest photos go first, and you can keep recent months on the phone.

03

Move

Files stream across in small chunks, so even a phone with 4 GB of RAM never struggles with big videos.

04

Free your phone

Turn it on, and the photos that are safe on the laptop are removed from the phone. The space is yours again.

Safe before delete

A photo counts as safe only after the laptop wrote it to disk and its SHA-256 matched the phone's. A partial file deletes nothing.

Wi-Fi or hotspot

Same Wi-Fi, a phone hotspot, or a typed address. If your phone does not show up, add it by address.

Cable ready

Plug in a data cable for the fastest route. Android over USB tethering, iPhone over its own cable.

Trash, not gone

Deleting happens through the system's own Trash or Recently Deleted, with its own confirmation. Off until you turn it on.

Private by design

No account, no tracking, no upload. The phone serves, the laptop fetches, on your own network.

Light on memory

Photos and videos are streamed in chunks of at most 1 MiB. The gallery loads in pages with small thumbnails.

Delete only what is proven.

Photopho says "sent" while a file is travelling and "safe" only when it has been checked. Deleting from the phone is a separate, deliberate choice.

  1. The laptop writes the fileand flushes it to disk.
  2. The hashes matchThe laptop's SHA-256 equals the phone's. If not, nothing is deleted.
  3. You turned deleting onIt is off by default, on every phone.
  4. The system asks youAndroid Trash or iPhone Recently Deleted, with the system's own confirmation.

One file per device.

Install Photopho on your phone and on your laptop. They talk to each other.

Your device

Windows

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit.
For an iPhone on a cable, also install Apple Devices from the Microsoft Store.

Photopho-Windows-Setup.exe · 6.7 MB

Download .exe
Your device

Mac

macOS 12 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel in one universal app.

Photopho-macOS.zip · 8.6 MB

Download .zip
Your device

Android

Android 8.0 or later. Deleting from the phone needs Android 11 or later.

Photopho-Android.apk · 12.1 MB

Download .apk
Your device

iPhone

iOS 16 or later. The file is unsigned, so it is installed with Sideloadly or AltStore, or built from Xcode.

Photopho-iOS-unsigned.ipa · 0.6 MB

Download .ipa

Not signed by a paid developer account yet. Each system asks once before it opens Photopho. The steps below show how to get past that. Last updated 7 October 2026.

Install on Windows
  1. Run Photopho-Windows-Setup.exe.
  2. If Windows SmartScreen says it protected your PC, choose More info → Run anyway.
  3. The installer adds Photopho to the Start menu, and installs Microsoft's WebView2 runtime first if your PC does not have it.
Install on Mac
  1. Unzip Photopho-macOS.zip and drag Photopho.app into Applications.
  2. When macOS says it cannot verify the developer, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to Photopho and choose Open Anyway.
  3. If macOS says the app is damaged, run this in Terminal and open it again: 
    xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Photopho.app
Install on Android
  1. Download the .apk in your phone's browser, or copy it over USB, then open it.
  2. When Android asks, allow your browser or file manager to install unknown apps.
  3. This is a debug build. If Android says it conflicts with an installed copy, uninstall the older Photopho first; your laptop will pair with it again.
Install on iPhone

iOS does not install an unsigned .ipa as it is. Either:

  • Sideload the file with Sideloadly or AltStore, which sign it with your Apple ID.
  • Or build it with your Mac and Xcode, picking your Apple ID team under Signing & Capabilities. With a free Apple ID the app runs for 7 days, then you run it again to renew.

The first time, turn on Developer Mode (Settings → Privacy & Security) and trust your developer profile (Settings → General → VPN & Device Management).

Check that a download is intact (SHA-256)

Windows: certutil -hashfile <file> SHA256 · Mac: shasum -a 256 <file>

Photopho-Windows-Setup.exec34d1b686335ef44e7f8a4201fc6defea742b1e4749a6df4be3e71f186b2ada1
Photopho-macOS.zip3bd719d410fde2c8c671482dd05aa47810a05161bdf61f592bfae92bc7831c2b
Photopho-Android.apk1275049f41859088d64a4c7a61b675341d37312ad1fc659fcd1be9385b4b7c49
Photopho-iOS-unsigned.ipab651991ba560539ac5b070fb4e0b7a24280eb2817a262934dacf2e52ad3c7264