Hard Work reads the years of job-site photos already on your phone, figures out which ones are work, and organizes them into jobs — kitchen remodels, service upgrades, pool builds — automatically. The AI runs entirely on your phone. Your photos never leave it.
Coming to the App Store · iPhone & iPad
The problem every contractor has
You already document your work. Before shots, rough-in, the finished job — they're all on your phone, mixed in with receipts, screenshots, the kids' birthday, and four hundred photos of the dog.
So when a customer asks "have you done a walk-in shower before?", you're standing in their kitchen scrolling with your thumb for two minutes, past your lunch, hoping the right photo shows up before they change the subject.
Every contractor we talked to has the same photo library: thousands of pictures, priceless proof of skill, completely unusable. Organizing it by hand would take a week of evenings. Nobody has ever done it. Nobody ever will.
How it works
There is exactly one big button in Hard Work: "Scan all my photos." Tap it, plug your phone in overnight, and the app does the week of evenings for you.
The scan starts with what your photos already know about themselves: when and where each one was taken. Photos cluster into job-site visits. Selfies, screenshots, receipts, and family shots are set aside before the AI ever looks at them — and the app always shows you what it set aside and why, so a wrongly-skipped photo is one tap from rescue.
A vision model that lives on your device looks at each work photo the way another tradesperson would: that's an open panel — an electrical service upgrade. That's waterproofing board in a wet area — a shower rebuild. It tags what it sees from a built-in vocabulary of 33 trades and 250+ specific tasks.
Photos taken at the same place over the same stretch of days become one job — and the app names it by what it sees: "Bathroom remodel," "Deck & pergola," "Panel replacement." You never file anything, never name a folder, never build an album.
Every tag is a suggestion until you approve it. Anything uncertain lands in one "needs a look" tray you can clear in bulk — check five photos, tap once to tag them all "Plumbing." The AI does the sorting; you do the deciding.
The payoff
The home screen is your body of work: every job you've photographed, newest first, each with its dates, its address, its photos, and the trades involved. Filter by project type with one tap — every kitchen you've done, every deck, every service call.
Need one photo in the field? Search like you talk: "backsplash", "water heater", "paver job on Maple." The app knows the trade words and the places, and it searches within the radius you actually work in.
Private by design
Most "AI photo" apps upload your library to a server and ask you to trust them. Hard Work is built the other way around: the AI comes to your phone — a one-time download — and everything happens there.
Photos are analyzed on your device. We never see them, and neither does anyone else. There are no accounts and no analytics.
Family shots and selfies are set aside before the AI ever looks at them, and the app keeps no copies of anything personal.
All tags and job records live in a database on your phone — excluded from cloud backups — and vanish if you remove the app. Your original photos are never touched.
The full details are in our plain-English Privacy Policy — it's short, because there's not much to disclose when nothing is collected.
From camera roll to closing tool
Tap the star on any photo and it joins your showcase — your hand-picked best work, grouped into the same jobs, ready to send. Email a whole bathroom remodel to a prospect from the driveway. Text the before-and-after to the customer who referred you.
And because photos of people or house numbers shouldn't go out by accident, Hard Work flags them and asks before anything leaves your phone. Sharing is always your call, made deliberately.
Full-screen viewing with pinch-to-zoom pulls the original, full-resolution photo — so the tile work looks as crisp on their screen as it did on the wall.
Built for the job site, not the studio
Plug in overnight and the tagging keeps working in the background. You get a notification when your library's done.
Set the radius you work in and the scan leaves vacation photos alone — while never excluding photos that simply lack location data.
"Rough-in", "backsplash", "water heater" — the app knows the synonyms, your nicknames for tasks, and your custom tags.
Every photo the scan set aside shows the reason — "a screenshot", "a photo of a person" — and one tap overrules it.
A true dark theme and a Largest-text mode, because job photos get reviewed at 9pm and not everyone's eyes are 25.
On a tablet, jobs spread into a gallery and the photo review gets a side-by-side layout. Same app, more room.
See it in action
Who it's for
General contractors. Electricians. Plumbers. Tile setters. Landscapers. Remodelers. If your work is visual and your phone is where the evidence lives, Hard Work was built for you.
It doesn't ask you to change how you work. Keep taking photos exactly the way you already do — messy, fast, in the moment. The organizing is no longer your job.
Fair questions
No. The AI model is downloaded to your phone once (about 3.3 GB), and every photo is analyzed locally. The app's only network use is that one-time download and turning job coordinates into street names using your phone's built-in geocoder — coordinates only, never images. See the Privacy Policy.
The initial sweep of your library takes seconds — it reads photo dates and locations, not pixels. The AI tagging pass depends on how many work photos you have; a big library is an overnight-on-the-charger job. You can pause and resume anytime, and the app can keep going in the background while charging.
Tags are suggestions, not verdicts. Anything uncertain goes to a "needs a look" tray where you can fix things in bulk — and every correction you make teaches the app which trades to trust.
The scan works hard to keep personal photos away from the AI entirely: selfies, screenshots, documents, and photos taken at your home or outside your service area are set aside using photo metadata and on-device face detection — before the tagging model runs. And you can always see the set-aside list and the reason for each photo.
Pricing will be announced at launch. There's no subscription required for the core promise — your photos, organized on your phone. Get in touch for early access.
iPhone and iPad first. Android is on the roadmap — the app's foundations are already cross-platform.