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title: "Lookpix vs the Photos App"
description: "What Lookpix does that the iPhone's Photos and Files apps don't: one search for photos and files, size filters, look-alike photos, swipe cleanup and video compression."
url: https://lookpix.app/compare
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# Photos and Files, or Lookpix?

The built-in apps are great for opening an album or a folder. Here's what they leave to you.

| Job | Lookpix | Photos and Files |
| --- | --- | --- |
| One search for photos and files | Photos, screenshots, PDFs and documents together | Photos and Files, searched separately |
| Size, kind and date in plain words | “PDFs larger than 5 MB”, “videos from August” | No size filters |
| Biggest items first | Videos and files sorted by size, ready to clean | No sort by size in Photos |
| Duplicates | Exact copies and look-alikes, with the space you'll get back | Duplicates album for exact and near copies |
| Clean up a month at a time | Swipe left to delete, right to keep | Select photos one by one |
| Shrink a video | Compress and replace, keeping date and place | Not built in |
| IDs and documents | Aadhaar, PAN, passport and licence, behind Face ID | Mixed in with everything else |

Compared with the Photos and Files apps in iOS 26. Lookpix works alongside them and is not made by or affiliated with Apple.