I’ve been working on a **“pro-level” reimagining of the iOS Photos app** built entirely in React Native and integrating AI features like **editing, tagging, and photo management**. Think native Photos, but with the kind of workflow features photographers and power-users would want.

→ If you're interested in the app, please sign up for for the waitlist:  [**https://coreviz.io/waitlist**](https://coreviz.io/waitlist)

One of the trickiest parts was recreating the smooth **pinch-to-zoom grid transition** purely in React Native / JavaScript. It turned into a surprisingly deep rabbit hole of gesture handling, virtualization, and layout math.

Since I figured others might want this too, I open-sourced it as a standalone package:

👉 `react-native-zoom-grid` on [**npm**](https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-zoom-grid) / [**github**](https://github.com/wassgha/react-native-zoom-grid)

A plug-and-play zoomable photo grid that mimics the iOS Photos behavior. If you're building anything with media galleries, please try it out, break it, send issues, PRs, etc.

If you’re curious about the full app I'm building on top of it:

🔗 **Waitlist (200 spots)**: [https://coreviz.io/waitlist](https://coreviz.io/waitlist)  
🔗 **Web App**: [https://coreviz.io/](https://coreviz.io/)

Hope this is useful, happy to share more details about the implementation if anyone is interested!

I rebuilt the iOS Photos app from scratch in React Native / Expo!