About

Swipeable composes multi-photo carousel posts on the phone, before they are uploaded anywhere.

Why it exists

A carousel is one idea across several slides, and the tools for making one mostly treat it as a pile of separate pictures. The awkward part is never the filter — it is deciding what goes with what, where each photo is cropped inside its frame, and whether the whole run still reads in order once a profile grid has taken a 3:4 bite out of it.

So this app is about composition and nothing else. It has no filters, no feed, no account, and no opinion about what you should post.

Who made it

Vincent C. Mader, in Ulm, Germany. The full details are in the imprint; the way to get in touch is on the contact page.

Everything stays on the phone

There is no account, no upload and no server. Composing, previewing and exporting all happen on the device, and nothing is collected, measured or sent anywhere. The privacy page says exactly what that means, and what the two photo-library permissions are for.

Built on

Open-source software, listed here with its licences. The same list is in the app, under About Swipeable at the foot of your posts.

React Native MIT

the app itself

Expo MIT

the native modules around it

React Native Skia MIT

every pixel the canvas draws

Reanimated MIT

gestures that run off the JS thread

Gesture Handler MIT

drag, pinch and double-tap

Zustand MIT

the stores under the screens

Instrument Sans SIL OFL 1.1

the typeface, on screen and in exports