Crashes at 27,000 photos
I’m a photographer and graphic design student so I was super excited when I heard about this app but my excitement quickly turned to frustration and disappointment.
I’ve tried to use this app about 15 times now. I have about 29K photos and let this app scan them all. It stops scanning at about 27K and doesn’t let you know. It also says it’ll run in the background but each time I minimized the app it only scanned about 10 photos a minute instead of about 60 photos a minute. To use the app I had to constantly have it open and was not able to go on any other app, which is fine if that’s what they advertised I would have planned accordingly. They also never notified me when the scan failed. Huge waste of time since it took about 6 hours for it to scan all the way up to 27K and then just quite on me.
I’ve tried to use this app about 15 times now. I have about 29K photos and let this app scan them all. It stops scanning at about 27K and doesn’t let you know. It also says it’ll run in the background but each time I minimized the app it only scanned about 10 photos a minute instead of about 60 photos a minute. To use the app I had to constantly have it open and was not able to go on any other app, which is fine if that’s what they advertised I would have planned accordingly. They also never notified me when the scan failed. Huge waste of time since it took about 6 hours for it to scan all the way up to 27K and then just quite on me.
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Response from developer
We’re sorry for the inconvenience. Crashing or lagging problems are closely related to devices. Please contact our support team at https://bit.ly/359ApdU and share a detailed description of the issue, screenshots, device info and OS version so that we can help you fix it.
Fail
I downloaded this app thinking it will help find duplicates. I have over 5k worth of pictures and videos, some if are duplicates. Ran app after downloading, app scanned for almost 8 hrs and it notified i can minimize app and will be alerted after being done. Pure disappointment, no alerts whatsoever. Opening screen went on start with scan button. I fon’t know how this has 1.2k downloads.
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Great Tool!
This tool is fantastic and the best thing I’ve found to help clean up my massive library better than any other ‘find dupes’ program I’ve tried. A couple of points thought.
First and most important, it does take time to scan your files. You’re supposed to be able to minimize, but that didn’t work on my iPad. I started mine before going to bed and left it on and running. It finished overnight. I had about 6k photos.
Second, this point is for the dev team. I’d like to get some file details when going in to look closer at an individual picture in the compare screen after scanning. Being able to see a date is nice, but not always the only thing I need. As some background, I have a design business and often have an original jpeg graphic and a secondary png graphic that I’ve removed the background on so that it is transparent and can be put on shirts and the like. It would be helpful to see the file type. I figured out that the oldest files were on the left, but that would make it easier.
First and most important, it does take time to scan your files. You’re supposed to be able to minimize, but that didn’t work on my iPad. I started mine before going to bed and left it on and running. It finished overnight. I had about 6k photos.
Second, this point is for the dev team. I’d like to get some file details when going in to look closer at an individual picture in the compare screen after scanning. Being able to see a date is nice, but not always the only thing I need. As some background, I have a design business and often have an original jpeg graphic and a secondary png graphic that I’ve removed the background on so that it is transparent and can be put on shirts and the like. It would be helpful to see the file type. I figured out that the oldest files were on the left, but that would make it easier.
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App Does NOT work at All
This was supposed to be the best photo dupe cleaner app, and that's pretty much a joke. I tried it on both my iPhone and iPad. My husband did the same, as did some of our friends and my mom. It scans fast like the wind, but always stops roughly 200 photos in number below what you have, and then just sits there, never changing. Free? Yes. Waste of time? Also yes. So, in the end, not free at all. None of these apps work, but this is the first time I was irritated enough to leave a review. We're just going to have to be deleting out own dupes by eyeballing it until iOS 16 drops in the fall. And I sure hope that works.
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Great Duplicate Remover
I can’t believe this app is free, thank you developer. I just downloaded and ran this app, it only took about two or three minutes, I have 5,200 photos. All duplicates gone, space gained, what’s not to like?
Highly recommend.
Highly recommend.
Does what it says on the tin
Great little app, simple and straightforward, no fuss no bother.
Failed to find duplicates
I was trying to duplicate iPhone 7 Live Photos as still photos so I could delete the live version and reclaim space. Even though I selected Duplicate as Still Photo the iphone created duplicates of the Live Photos instead.
I downloaded this app to remove the duplicate Live Photos so I could get back to where I started from. Out of at least 700 duplicate Live Photos the app only found 8 duplicates. Which means I have to select about 692 duplicates manually. The photos are shown together in the Live Album so you can’t even select by sliding your finger across lines of photos automatically selecting everything. You have to pick every other photo to delete.
In fairness, after creating the duplicate Live photo images, the amount of storage space used on the iPhone didn’t change. This could mean they only created a pointer to the original Live photo, and displayed it twice. In that case, REMO would not find a duplicate because the iPhone may have only simulated a second copy.
I downloaded this app to remove the duplicate Live Photos so I could get back to where I started from. Out of at least 700 duplicate Live Photos the app only found 8 duplicates. Which means I have to select about 692 duplicates manually. The photos are shown together in the Live Album so you can’t even select by sliding your finger across lines of photos automatically selecting everything. You have to pick every other photo to delete.
In fairness, after creating the duplicate Live photo images, the amount of storage space used on the iPhone didn’t change. This could mean they only created a pointer to the original Live photo, and displayed it twice. In that case, REMO would not find a duplicate because the iPhone may have only simulated a second copy.
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Response from developer
We apologize for this experience. We would like to inform you that the app can only find duplicates. Some photos might look very similar to our eyes but they could be different photos shot immediately one after the other. You could perform Similar scan after the Exact scan. Please contact us at https://bit.ly/359ApdU so we can help you.
Awesome
I love this app and its so much easier to use than going through your whole camera roll just to delete duplicates. I have deleted 11 photos out of my 300+ photos. It scans your photos fairly quickly too. I would definitely recommend for any age kids of 3.
Great tool to identify duplicate identical pictures
The program scanned my iPhone and identified identical pictures displaying file size, date photo taken and a simple delete check button for deleting duplicates not needed. For reasons beyond me, apple does not allow file names to display, which is exactly what I needed. For reasons irrelevant here, I ended with with many version of the same pictures but with different names and was hopping to easily determine the original photo and delete the copies.
Thank you for great product
Thank you for great product
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Better than the alternatives even with the infrequent updates.
Competitors charge too much and try to justify the cost with useless features instead of optimising for removing duplicates only, so they end up being worse at everything they try to do.
This app focuses on duplicates, and although it takes ages to scan a 66k library, it does show crucial info like file size, which you can use to distinguish between high and low quality duplicates. It also uses the built in photo deletion so you can recover from accidents using the Recently Deleted album in Photos.
This app focuses on duplicates, and although it takes ages to scan a 66k library, it does show crucial info like file size, which you can use to distinguish between high and low quality duplicates. It also uses the built in photo deletion so you can recover from accidents using the Recently Deleted album in Photos.
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