Keep one frame. Drop the other ninety-nine.
One accidental long-press creates a hundred near-identical photos. HEVCut finds every burst, ranks the frames, and lets you keep the best one (or several) and delete the rest in a single tap.
Bursts are the single largest storage hog most people never look at.
Hold the shutter, capture ten frames a second. On a 48MP iPhone, a 50-frame burst can pass 200 MB. Years of accidental holds add up to gigabytes.
On-device scoring evaluates sharpness, facial expressions (eyes open, smiles), composition and overall quality. You can accept the suggestion or pick your own.
Some bursts have two or three you want. Mark every keeper you like; HEVCut only removes the ones you did not select.
Scan, pick, clean.
- 01
Find every burst
HEVCut scans your library and lists every burst sequence with its total size. Most people are surprised by how many forgotten bursts they have.
- 02
AI ranks the frames
Each frame gets a quality score. The recommended keeper is highlighted; you can swap it or add additional keepers before moving on.
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Delete the rest
One tap removes every non-keeper. The chosen frame stays in the library as a regular photo. Removed shots hit Recently Deleted for 30 days.
Common questions.
- Where do burst photos come from?
- Action shots (sports, pets, kids), accidental long-presses on the shutter, group photos to make sure no one is blinking, or the volume-up burst trigger on older iOS versions. They accumulate silently.
- Will cleaning bursts affect iCloud Photos?
- Yes, and that is the point. Removed frames sync out of iCloud across every device. The keeper you picked stays on all of them.
- How much storage can I recover?
- 1-5 GB is typical. Long-time iPhone owners with years of accumulated bursts often reclaim 10 GB or more, since you are keeping one frame instead of 50-100.
- Can I keep more than one shot from a burst?
- Yes. Mark every frame you want before confirming. HEVCut only deletes the unselected ones.
- Can I prevent accidental bursts in the future?
- Open Settings, Camera, and disable "Use Volume Up for Burst". Holding the volume button now records video instead. You can still trigger burst mode by sliding the shutter to the left.
Free up space. Keep your memories.
HEVCut runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Everything stays on-device, offline. Try a few compressions before committing to Pro.
Try it on the App Store