# Cleansmith: Photo Cleaner — user reviews > 1,040 indexed App Store user reviews of Cleansmith by Monocraft, rated 4.70/5 from 4,077 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cleansmith-photo-cleaner/id926090192/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cleansmith-photo-cleaner/id926090192.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,465 · 4★ 275 · 3★ 120 · 2★ 61 · 1★ 156 ## What do users think of Cleansmith? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Simple and easy to use - 🚀 Quick and efficient - 💾 Frees up storage space - 🗂️ Helpful for organizing photos - 📹 Video cleaning feature is great for creators **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional issues with adding wrong photos to albums - 💸 Aggressive paywall and subscription model - 📱 Compatibility issues on iPad - 🔄 Slow loading and crashes during use **Commonly reported bugs** - Deleting photos sometimes removes them from albums - Compression fails to retain original photo/video attributes - Landscape mode not supported on iPad **Most requested features** - Add ability to select time range for cleaning - Bring back old version's features and UI - Add option to delete entire albums except favorites - Improve sorting and filtering options for compression ## Newest reviews (14 of 1,040) ### 2/5 — Basically unusable *2026-08-12* This was my go-to app for compressing my photos and getting rid of storage. At first I was able to shrink down almost 3gb worth of photos every day. Recently the past few weeks it crashes at just trying to compress 100mb worth of photos. I updated to see if it would fix it and the process just freezes every 5 photos and you have to cancel and then continue to keep going. And that’s if you’re lucky to get it to work like that. I don’t want to babysit the process. I confirmed it’s not because of my storage I have a lot of gb left and I always close every app. I hope they fix this eventually then I might change my rating. Because this is the only free app that doesn’t charge for mass photo compression. The only limit is your patience. It used to be good, now with this update it’s basically unusable for me. ### 3/5 — De *2026-04-15, version 6.3.5* Q ### 4/5 — 写真の全画面表示時の選択 *2026-01-21, version v6.3.3* とても良いアプリですがひとつ要望が。 写真を全画面表示表示してる状態でも写真を選択できて削除できるようにして欲しいです。大きな画面でチェックして削除したいので。 ### 4/5 — Update has made it worthless to me! (Now improved.) *2025-12-10* My primary use of this app was to compress recent photos and videos where I didn’t need the resolution that was captured. As redesigned, the compress screens don’t have any filtering or sorting options which makes finding recent videos and photos close to impossible. Nov 18, 2024Update: Thanks for adding the sorting by date to the Compress section, but I still need to select from individual folders as well just videos or just photos to compress. Please consider these and all possible sorting and filtering options. Dec 2025 Update: They backed out some of the UI changes they made a year ago, and this app is back to very good. Idea: I would like to see a filter of compressed/uncompressed (so I could compress anything that isn’t already compressed)...or a “select all uncompressed” option. **Developer response:** Hello, thank you for updating your review. We're glad to hear you are satisfied with the recent changes. Regarding your suggestion about filtering uncompressed items: This feature is already available. Please check the Manage Compressed menu in the app. There, you can easily view and manage items based on their compression status. If you have any trouble finding it, please let us know. Thanks for your support! ### 5/5 — Actually freed up my storage *2025-09-14, version 6.2.5* This app helped me find all the duplicate photos and even the similar looking ones. It took a while to go through everything, but I cleared up almost 10GB ### 5/5 — Clean, simple to use *2025-09-12, version 6.2.5* Everything is straightforward, no confusing menus ### 5/5 — Video cleaner is a GAME CHANGER 📹 *2025-09-09* As someone who posts a lot of video content, my phone is constantly full of draft clips and multiple takes. This app's video cleaner is incredible. It found all the similar videos and even large files I'd forgotten about. This is a must have tool for any creator. ### 5/5 — Actually works and is easy *2025-09-09* I've tried a couple of these cleaner apps and they were either super confusing or not functioning. This one was different. The layout is clean and it just... works. It grouped all my similar photos together so I could easily pick the best one and trash the rest. Took maybe 10 minutes to go through a year's worth of clutter. Highly recọmmend. 👍 ### 5/5 — Handy tool *2025-09-07, version 6.2.5* the whole process was pretty quick, maybe 7 minutes. ### 5/5 — Good *2025-09-06, version 6.2.5* Good app, does what it needs to. ### 5/5 — Clear 1 *2025-09-04, version 6.2.5* My phone feels new again thanks to this. my phone was constantly telling me 'storage almost full'. It made the whole cleaning process much less of a chore. ### 5/5 — This is the app I needed So satisfying! *2025-09-04, version 6.2.5* This is the app I needed. my iPhone 14 Pro was getting so slow. It found and deleted over 5037 duplicate videos in just a few minutes. It made the whole cleaning process much less of a chore. THANK YOU! 💯 ### 5/5 — Clean great! *2025-09-04, version 6.2.5* honestly, my photo gallery was a cọmplete mess. saved me hours of manual work. it found and deleted over 952 duplicate videos in just a few minutes. solid app. ### 5/5 — loveee *2025-09-03, version 6.2.5* great works amazing!! literally get it ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — App compression issue / unusuable after update *2026-08-20* As another person had stated, the app recently does not compress photos anymore. As was my primary usage of the app, I’ve paid over $130 in subscription fees for this app, and it isn’t useable at all. It will not compress a single photo, I am fortunate, if even one, compresses. It crashes, freezes, and will not work. I’ve periodically attempted it, waited, left the app open thinking it could be lagging, restarted my device, have no storage issues using only 20%. This app may have just flunked or disabled the feature to properly work, to save on funds. And I wish that they would just not change it, or reimpliment it. Allow us just to use the app, please… I have waited over two weeks for this to resolve, and decided to change my review after immense disappointment. There is no functionality, and these problems keep reoccurring. I cannot tell if it is a lack of integrity and greed to remove functions from this cleaner app. But I will move on and buy another app, and regret forever paying money for an unusable app, if this keeps occurring. It’s disappointing. **Developer response:** Hello, and thank you for your patience — we're sorry for the frustration. Version 6.5.0 contained a bug that made bulk compression freeze or fail after the first few items, which is exactly what you describe. We found the cause and fixed it in the next update: v6.5.1. If compression still doesn't work for you after the update, please contact us through our Facebook page (https://facebook.com/photocleaner) so we can investigate your case directly. Thank you for supporting the app all this time. ### 1/5 — Broken *2026-01-17, version v6.3.3* App broke and ads no longer increase the limit of items you can delete after playing ### 1/5 — Навязанная недельная подписка за 699р *2025-11-16* Вы можете случайно оформить подписку пробного периода на 3 дня, после списание 699р в неделю. Осторожнее друзья. ### 1/5 — 解約の仕方がわからない。 *2025-10-24, version 6.2.7* 無料トライアルではじめてみたが望んでいた機能がないので即解約しようとしたのですが、トライアル解約の仕方が、どこからするのかわからない。こういう部分を分かりにくくするのはフェアじゃない。悪質。本当に悪質。 ### 1/5 — Money theft *2025-10-10, version 6.2.6* 40 USD per month??? Are you crazy??? ### 1/5 — Adds wrong pictures *2025-09-20, version 6.2.5* I really wanted to like this app, but I have tried multiple times and it keeps adding the wrong picture to an album. I click on the album I want a picture added to, then when I go to my photos and check the album it added a previous photo that I skipped and didn’t add to any album. Any help would be greatly appreciated! ### 1/5 — No le doy -0/10 porque no se puede *2025-07-23, version 6.2.2* Lo odio ### 1/5 — Does not support landscape mode, ridiculous. *2025-05-30, version 6.2.0* Does not support landscape mode, ridiculous. ### 1/5 — Used to be a good app, taken over by scammers *2025-05-26, version 6.2.0* 3 day evaluation window then $7.99 a *week* Scam. ### 1/5 — 類似がゆるすぎる。 *2025-05-06, version 6.2.0* 類似に重複が入ってるし、全然違う写真でも同じ場所ってだけで類似に入ってる。逆に重複してても類似になってて結局手作業ばっかで使えない。金返して ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Top *2026-04-28, version 6.3.6* Спасибо. Чётко. Легко. ### 5/5 — Higher *2026-02-28, version 6.3.4* Hhhjj ### 5/5 — life saver 🧎‍♀️ *2026-02-08, version v6.3.3* chatgpt recommended me this, amazing app it cleaned like 20 gb from my phone cause i had like 10k photos and 1k videos on a 64 gb phone this app saved me and its also free huge W ### 5/5 — Excelente *2025-12-11, version 6.3.1* Excelente ### 5/5 — ㄒ *2025-11-10, version 6.2.7* ，呀呀呀 ### 5/5 — Live Part Remover *2025-10-28* Ich benutze gerade die App , an sich übersichtlich und suche die Funktion wo ich den Live Part also den Video Part von einem Foto entfernen kann? Ich kann mir alle Lives sortieren und anzeigen lassen. Jetzt geht’s noch drum wie ich das Foto behalte und den Video Teil löschen kann? Danke für euer Feedback. **Developer response:** Hallo, vielen Dank für dein Feedback. Diese Funktion wird im nächsten Update (Version 6.3.0) hinzugefügt. Konkret wird es dann möglich sein, den Videoteil oder den Fototeil von Live Photos zu entfernen. Vielen Dank! ### 5/5 — Сортировка по дням где было больше всего мб фото/видео *2025-10-08* Добавьте плиз! ### 5/5 — 20-09-2025 *2025-09-20, version 6.2.5* 20-09–2024 ### 5/5 — Lihuen *2025-09-17, version 6.2.5* A ### 5/5 — My camera roll is actually usable now *2025-09-16, version 6.2.5* Super simple to use. Did exactly what I needed it to do. 👍 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*