Snap
A fast, full camera: photo and up to 4K video, zoom lenses, flash and front camera. Use it instead of the Camera app for anything you won’t want next month.
A second camera for iPhone & iPad
Your Camera Roll is for memories.
This is for everything else.
Receipts, parking spots, Wi-Fi passwords, shelf labels, QR codes. Snap them with Trash Camera and they land in their own private gallery, never in Photos, never in your iCloud storage.
- Never touches Photos
- QR & text detection
- No account, no tracking
The problem
Most photos only matter for an hour.
Most photos only matter for an hour.
Then they stay forever.
We take dozens of photos a day that we need for a few minutes. They bury the holiday pictures and quietly fill up the iCloud storage you pay for. Watch what happens when they go somewhere else.
Camera Roll
iCloud storage48.6 of 50 GB
Storage almost full. Upgrade your plan?
Trash Gallery
Clutter you capture here never reaches Photos.
How it works
Snap it. Use it. Toss it.
Use it
QR codes pop up as you point. In the gallery, barcodes, links, emails and phone numbers are found for you. Open, copy or call in one tap.
Toss or keep
Clear the clutter in seconds. Took a shot you love? Save it to Photos with one tap, and only that one.
▦ QR Code
Aa Text
▤ Barcode
Trash Gallery
A gallery that sorts itself.
Everything you capture goes into a private gallery inside the app, sorted on your device into QR codes, barcodes, text and everything else. See how much space it takes and empty it with one button.
- Kept apart from your Photo Library, so it never syncs to iCloud Photos
- Select several items to share, save or delete at once
- Crop and rotate before you send
QR & barcodes
Point, scan, done. And it remembers.
Point the camera at a QR code and its link pops up right in the viewfinder. Every scan lands in a history, so that menu link is still there tomorrow.
- Open links or copy the content in one tap
- Barcodes in your photos are recognised too: EAN, UPC, Code 128, PDF417, Data Matrix, Aztec and more
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(555) 123-4567Call · Copy
Text detection
Text you can tap.
Photograph a flyer, a business card or a router sticker and Trash Camera reads it on your device. Phone numbers, emails and links become buttons; the full text is ready to copy.
- Call, email or open a link straight from the photo
- Copy the full text into Notes, Messages or a form
And the rest of a real camera
Small app. Nothing missing.
Photo & 4K video
Zoom lenses, flash, front and back camera, tap to focus. Videos are temporary too.
Keep the good one
Save a single shot to your Photo Library when it turns out to be a keeper.
Share extension
Got clutter from somewhere else? Send it to Trash Camera from the share sheet.
Crop & rotate
Trim the receipt to the total before you send it to accounting.
Clear All
See exactly how much space the gallery uses, then empty it in a second.
Private by design
Your clutter is nobody’s business.
Trash Camera has no account, no ads, no analytics and no servers. Photos, scans and detected text are processed on your device and stay there until you share them.
0photos uploaded
0accounts
0trackers
100% on device
Screenshots
See it on your device.
Questions
Do photos taken with Trash Camera appear in Photos?
No. They are stored inside the app only. A photo goes to your Photo Library only when you choose Save to Photos.
Do they count against my iCloud Photos storage?
No. Trash Camera’s gallery is not part of your Photo Library, so it is not synced to iCloud Photos.
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. There is no account and no server. QR, barcode and text detection run on your device with Apple’s Vision framework.
What happens if I delete the app?
Its gallery is deleted with it. Save anything you want to keep to Photos first.
Is there a subscription?
No. Trash Camera is a one-time purchase on the App Store, with no in-app purchases.
What do I need?
An iPhone or iPad with iOS / iPadOS 18.6 or later.
Keep your memories pure.
Don’t let utility photos turn your Camera Roll into a junk drawer.