Cloud Battery vs DeDuplicate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cloud Battery
This app centralizes battery levels from all your Apple devices into one view. Monitor battery status across iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches, with notifications and widgets for easy access. Seamlessly integrates with iCloud for a hassle-free experience.
- Centralized battery monitoring
- Real-time battery tracking
- Today, Home Screen, and Lock Screen Widgets
- Watch Complications
- Low battery and unplug notifications
- Siri Shortcuts integration
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Cloud Battery keeps your device, accessory, and shared device battery levels in one place. Use Cloud Battery on supported devices: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro, Apple TV. Cloud Battery is available on supported Apple platforms. Use iCloud to sync supported battery levels across your devices, view synced batteries on Apple TV, and share individual battery status for devices you own with people you choose. Cloud Battery includes: - At-a-glance battery levels - iCloud battery sync - iCloud sharing for battery status from devices you own - Synced battery viewing on Apple TV and Apple Vision Pro - Battery levels for Mac AirPods and compatible Bluetooth accessories - Home Screen, Lock Screen, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro widgets - Apple Watch battery rings - Low-battery and ready-to-unplug alerts for devices you own on supported platforms - App Shortcuts and Siri actions for battery level lookup and sync Cloud Battery works best with iCloud enabled on each device.
DeDuplicate
This app scans your cloud storage for identical files and allows you to remove duplicates, freeing up valuable space. It efficiently identifies exact duplicates using file hash values without downloading your files, ensuring privacy and speed.
- Scans cloud storage for duplicate files
- Removes extra copies to free up space
- Efficient and fast scanning
- Accurate detection using file hash values
- Privacy-first, local processing
- Supports multiple cloud services
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Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, and other cloud services don’t offer built-in tools to find and remove duplicates. If you store many files in the cloud, it’s easy to lose control and waste space. Automatic mobile backups make this problem even worse. DeDuplicate scans your cloud storage, finds identical files, and lets you remove the extra copies to free up space. How it works: 1) Log into your account. 2) Choose one or more folders (or the entire drive) and start the scan. Scan time depends on the NUMBER of files, not their size. 3) Review the detected duplicates and optionally ignore some of them. 4) Confirm the operation. What makes DeDuplicate different: • Efficient and fast: files are NOT downloaded. DeDuplicate uses metadata provided by cloud services, so it saves bandwidth, requires no extra storage, and scans are very quick (e.g. ~100,000 files in under 10 minutes, depending on network speed). • Accurate detection: only EXACT duplicates are detected using file hash values. File names are ignored; contents must be identical. • Privacy-first: everything runs locally on your device. The app connects directly to cloud providers, with no intermediary servers and no file data collection. • Cross-platform support. DeDuplicate currently supports the following cloud services: (PERSONAL ACCOUNTS - see notes below!) • OneDrive • Dropbox • Google Drive (∗) • MEGA • Box • pCloud • Yandex.Disk IMPORTANT: DeDuplicate is designed and tested primarily with PERSONAL/CONSUMER ACCOUNTS. Business, school, or enterprise accounts may behave differently and are not fully supported yet. Improving support for those account types is planned for a future update! NOTES ABOUT GOOGLE DRIVE: - Due to recent changes in Google’s requirements for third-party apps, DeDuplicate currently does not have a “verified” status. You can still use Google Drive normally, but signing in requires a small workaround, which is explained step by step inside the app! - Google proprietary file types (such as Google Docs, Google Sheets, etc.) are treated specially by Google Drive and are NOT included in DeDuplicate’s scan. WHY DO YOU NEED THIS APP? Until now, the only practical way to remove duplicates from cloud storage was a very time-consuming workaround: downloading everything to your computer, using one of the many “offline” duplicate-file utilities, and then syncing the changes back to the cloud. In the worst-case scenario, this even means re-uploading everything from scratch. That’s hardly a viable option when you have over 500 GB of unorganized cat pictures :) DeDuplicate is actively developed. If you encounter any issues, please take the time to contact us!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Cloud Battery at Free against DeDuplicate's $7.99. Cloud Battery also leads on ratings volume (1.5K vs 129). DeDuplicate's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.5 vs 4.0). On in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Cloud Battery is free to download; DeDuplicate costs $7.99 up front. Cloud Battery sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and DeDuplicate sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DeDuplicate holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cloud Battery has 1.5K ratings behind it against 129, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of Cloud Battery's written reviews are positive against 48% of DeDuplicate's.
Cloud Battery ships an update every 2 months, DeDuplicate every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cloud Battery | DeDuplicate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (1.5K ratings) | 4.5 (129 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.8% of reviews | 48.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 129 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alan Yan | Paolo Pugliese |
Customer experience
Cloud Battery
DeDuplicate
Bugs and requests
Cloud Battery
Reported bugs
5 issues- Devices disappearing from the app
- Widget not updating correctly
- Crashes when trying to share device status
- Incorrect battery percentages displayed
- Inability to add certain devices like older MacBooks
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for AirPods and other Bluetooth devices
- Improve Apple Watch integration and complication options
- Allow customization of device order in the app and widget
- Provide more detailed battery health information
- Implement a background refresh mode to keep data up-to-date
DeDuplicate
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cloud Battery
- Remove Ads & Customization$4.99
DeDuplicate
- Buy me a coffee$0.99
- No Ads - Lifetime$7.99
Questions
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