Hoc Drop vs Cleaner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hoc Drop
Instantly share selected photos with up to 8 friends in the same room without handing over your phone. Photos are only displayed temporarily and are not copied or saved on viewers' devices.
- Local photo sharing with up to 8 friends
- Share photos without handing over your phone
- Photos are not copied or saved
- Private network connection via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
- Select specific photos to share
- Ad-free paid version available
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Hoc Drop lets you screen share photos fast with up to 8 friends in the room. When you are hanging out with friends, start Hoc Drop and point the camera at the Hoc Drop logo on your friend's phone. This will connect the two phones fast. Select ONLY the photos you want to share from your camera roll to display on your friend's phone. Hoc Drop creates a private network with the iPhones in the room, and only sends the photos locally. - Never hand that phone off again. Nobody likes to hand their phone off to the crowd so they can show a few pictures from their last adventure. With Hoc Drop you don't have to give your phone away. Just create a Hoc Drop session, and then show the photos that you choose to show. - Photos are NOT copied, only displayed on your friend's phones. Photos you show with Hoc Drop are never copied to the viewer’s phone. They are just displayed, and when the session is over, none of the photos remain on your friend's phone. Once the session is over, Hoc Drop doesn't remember anything. It doesn't save any information about you or your photos. You don't need another way to send a copy of photos to friends, but you do need a way to show the photos instantly in a fast and secure way to your friends while you are at dinner, or just hanging out at the house. - You control the photos you choose. We all want to show our photos to other people when we get together, but most of us have thousands of photos on our iPhones, and we don't want to give access to all of them to everyone. With Hoc Drop, you select ONLY the photos you want to show to people in the session. - How to download Hoc Drop fast. Point your iPhone camera at the Hoc Drop logo on your friend's phone, and you will be taken to the app store to instantly download the app. - Hoc Drop is NOT an internet application There is no web server. There are no accounts to set up, no email addresses, or personal profiles to fill out. Hoc Drop uses Wifi and Bluetooth to connect two iPhones directly, without the internet, in a private network. This private network allows you to select photos to show on the other phones in the session. - Paid version of Hoc Drop eliminates Ads. The free version of Hoc Drop works great, but has banner ads that may overlap your photos. Get the paid version of Hoc Drop for 99 cents to remove Ads. - Multiple sessions in the same room. If you are at dinner running Hoc Drop, the people at the next table can run Hoc Drop in a different session, that doesn’t interfere or overlap with your session. Small groups of people in a larger group of people can all run Hoc Drop sessions simultaneously without interfering with other Hoc Drop sessions.
Cleaner
This app uses on-device AI to intelligently scan your photo library, identifying and helping you remove unwanted images like duplicates, blurry shots, and screenshots. Reclaim storage space with smart detection and batch cleanup features, all while prioritizing your privacy as analysis stays on your device.
- On-device AI photo analysis
- Duplicate and similar photo detection
- Blurry, screenshot, and oversized file identification
- Batch cleanup for multiple photos
- Storage insights and breakdowns
- Category browsing of detected issues
- Privacy-focused on-device processing
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Cleaner is a smart photo management app that uses on-device AI to help detect and remove unwanted photos from your library. Cleaner is free to download. Full-library scanning, AI-powered detection, storage insights, batch cleanup, category browsing, and photo deletion require an active Cleaner Premium subscription or lifetime purchase. Premium features, available with a subscription or lifetime purchase: • Smart Detection — AI-powered analysis identifies duplicates, similar photos, blurry shots, screenshots, oversized files, and underexposed images • Privacy First — Photo analysis runs on-device. Your photos never leave your phone • Storage Insights — See how much space you can recover with detailed storage breakdowns • Batch Cleanup — Select and delete multiple photos at once to reclaim storage • Category Browsing — Browse detected issues organized by category • Safe Deletion — Review photos before deleting, with clear previews and grouping Cleaner scans your photo library and shows you what's taking up space, so you can make informed decisions about what to keep and what to remove. Privacy Policy: https://cleaner-legal.pages.dev/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://cleaner-legal.pages.dev/terms/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cleaner at none against Hoc Drop's shown. Cleaner also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). Hoc Drop's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.5). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Hoc Drop sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Cleaner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Hoc Drop against 5.0 for Cleaner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hoc Drop has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hoc Drop ships an update every 7 months, Cleaner monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Hoc Drop | Cleaner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hoc Drop, LLC | Chintan Patel |
Customer experience
Hoc Drop
Cleaner
In-app purchases
Hoc Drop
- No Advertising$0.99
Cleaner
- Weekly Premium3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Lifetime Unlimited Plan$24.99









