CleanSwipe: Clean Up Storage

Find and delete duplicate photos in batches, instead of one at a time. Your camera roll is mostly the same picture, over and over. Fourteen shots of one sunset. Nine of a menu you photographed to remember later. Screen recordings you watched once and never opened again. CleanSwipe finds them and groups them, so one tap keeps the good one and bins the rest. The copies it is certain about — byte-for-byte duplicates, the spare frames of a burst — it pre-selects for you, with the reason written beside each one, and you review the whole batch before anything moves. Everything else you decide a card at a time: swipe one way to keep, the other way to bin. Nothing is deleted until you open the bin, see how many items are in it and about how much space they take, and confirm. GROUPS, NOT ONE AT A TIME The app compares what your pictures look like, not when they were taken, so a hundred sunsets shot over five years land in one place. Pick the good one, bin the rest, move on. Every frame in a group is on screen and you can pick any of them, however many there are. You can look at every item before it goes. Photos with people in them are grouped differently, much more tightly by date, so your kids at four and at nine do not collapse into one pile. The app only asks whether a face is present. It never identifies anyone, and it stores nothing about who is in a picture. FILES TOO Duplicate files, byte for byte identical, with the original kept. Large downloads you forgot about. Point it at a folder and it will tell you what is in there. NO DATA IS COLLECTED No account. No server. No analytics. No advertising. No third-party SDK. Nothing about your photos, videos or files ever leaves the phone. The scan never touches the network; the exceptions are by your own tap — buying or restoring the unlock, opening an Apple help page, and fetching a full-size photo or video from iCloud when you ask to see one that is not on your phone. Put the phone in airplane mode and the scanning, sorting and deleting still work. Every bit of the analysis runs on your device, using Apple's own frameworks. DELETING IS REVERSIBLE Photos and videos go to Recently Deleted in Apple's Photos app, where iOS keeps them for about 30 days. A mistake is recoverable for a month. Which also means the space is not back yet. Recently Deleted keeps taking up room for those 30 days, so an app that reports gigabytes cleaned the moment you tap delete is telling you something that is not true yet. CleanSwipe shows you both numbers — the space back now, and the space still waiting — and walks you through emptying Recently Deleted if you want it back today. WHAT IT COSTS Everything on the files side is free, with no limit and no trial that runs out. Swiping and sorting is free, with no limit. You also get 50 photo or video deletions free, a lifetime total, disclosed before you start rather than sprung on you halfway through. If you want more, there is a one-time unlock. No subscription, ever. It removes the photo cap, makes rescans take seconds instead of minutes, and does the slow part of scanning overnight while the phone is charging, so the next scan is quick. It is shared with your Family Sharing group and it restores on any device signed in to your Apple Account. Anything past the free 50 stays in the bin. It is not deleted, and it is not lost. Made by a small studio in Alabama.