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The original was posted on /r/apple by /u/AppInitio on 2025-05-04 15:00:02+00:00.

Apple’s Photos app lets you sort by filename and date but not by file size. So if your iCloud storage is full, you can’t check which of your largest items to offload/delete to free up space.

PhotoSort solves this problem. It sorts photos and videos by file size and creates a SizeSort album in the Photos app - so you can manage storage from within Photos itself. You can also fine-tune sorting e.g. show largest files totaling 10 GB, show 500 largest files, etc.

PhotoSort does another cool thing that Photos doesn’t: Say your library has 80,000 items - a mix of great, so-so, and rubbish stuff - how do you separate them? PhotoSort sorts them by image quality in a QualitySort album, so you can find your best shots that you might Favorite, save in albums, or share. It also identifies low-quality items that you might want to delete.

SizeSort and QualitySort albums also sync via iCloud to your iOS devices, so you can view and manage space on those, too. If you use ‘Optimize Mac Storage’ i.e. full resolution photos are in iCloud and low resolution thumbnails on the Mac, PhotoSort sorts on the file size of full resolution items in iCloud.

The app’s free version reveals the 30 largest items (Top menu: View > Top 30). The paid version ($4.99 for lifetime use) sorts the entire library and creates the SS/QS albums. Available on the Mac App Store. Currently English only, but German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch language support coming in the next 1-2 weeks.

Thanks for reading. Hope you will check it out and find it useful.