12,000 photos.
Two good ones.

Every photo and video plays edge to edge, vertically, the way you already look at everything else. Videos scrub smoothly under your thumb instead of stuttering.

Right to keep, left to bin, tap to share. Deletions batch up and go to Photos' own Recently Deleted, so nothing is ever really gone until you say so.

Filter by media type or date range before you start, so you can attack last summer's 800 videos without wading through everything since.

PixReel reads your library through Apple's Photos permission and does all its work on the device. There is no PixReel account and no server holding your pictures.

PixReel analyses the track you choose — finding the onsets, the tempo and the downbeat — and places every cut on the grid. Clips drifting against the music is the clearest tell that a reel was made by a machine, so it doesn't happen here.

Whip pans, zoom blur, glitch, light leaks, page flips, luma melts, kaleidoscope, film burn, star and diamond wipes — plus the plain cut, for when the plain cut is right.

Vision looks at what's actually in the frames — waterfall, beach, snow, night — and Apple's on-device language model turns that, plus where and when you were, into a line of copy. Nothing is uploaded to write it.

Browse whole looks with a poster and a preview to watch before you commit, or let PixReel match a style to the footage it's working with.

Transition packs and templates arrive over the air. No App Store update, no waiting for review — the picker just has more in it next time you open it.

Leave a reel half-built and come back to it. Your edit survives closing the app.