A 10x improvement on photo storage apps

To be very honest, the photos apps on both iphone and android really suck. They have hardly changed in years and were not meant for a world in which people have thousands of click thousands of photos. We need a 10x improvement – the kind that Notion did to notetaking, that the browser company is doing to the browser.

Specifically, here are some things I would like to see.

• Image search! Help me find the photos for my friend’s birthday without making me scroll through all my photos for minutes. I should just type in a search query and it should figure the rest out. To do this, the app could generate an description for each photo and store that in the photo’s metadata.
• Good sorting photos. When I click photos of people as memories, store it in a folder called “memories”; when I click documents, store it in “documents”. When i download videos from online, store them in such a folder.
• Auto rotate, auto crop etc. 
• From a bunch of similar photos (clicked in a burst), find the best one and delete the rest.
• Make it super easy to share the photos with friends (apple has a shared album, but it is really underdeveloped).
• Make it easy to delete photos in bulk. One idea I saw somewhere online earlier was a mode wherein you can just swipe left to delete, right to keep. No multi-step process to delete each photo; no trying to see what the photo was from the small icons.
• Make it easy to cloud backup my photos wherever I wanna store everything else (Google Drive, icloud, onedrive, box…). I shouldn’t need to buy storage everywhere unnecessarily.
• A more powerful video editing tool in the app itself.

If one really thinks about it, one can probably come up with a dozen other ways in which the photos apps could be improved.

How might the business model work? I’m not entirely sure yet, but this could work as a one-time paid app, or with a premium version. An interesting way might be to use some proprietory tech to identify images from the user’s album that they might be comfortable submitting to stock image websites; then with user’s permission the app could submit that (in one click). Given that each user will have at least 50 such photos, that would be a huge number of stock photos (pretty valuable I suppose.

You could also eventually sell out to one of the OS providers (like Apple or Google) and they could incorporate your tech by default.