DeDuplicate vs Shuffler
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Shuffler
Create and randomize lists of items. This ad-free utility helps users pick random items or shuffle entire lists for various purposes, such as classroom activities or task ordering.
- Create custom lists
- Shuffle list order randomly
- Select random item from list
- Ad-free experience
- Simple and intuitive interface
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This simple, ad-free, app allows users to make lists of things. They can then shuffle the list in order to get a random order for the list, or they can choose an item on the list at random. This is useful for classrooms where a teacher would like to pick a student at random, or produce an order for students to complete tasks in.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Shuffler at Free against DeDuplicate's $7.99. Shuffler also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (67% vs 48%). DeDuplicate's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 25 months). On ads and iOS requirement 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
Shuffler is free to download; DeDuplicate costs $7.99 up front. DeDuplicate sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Shuffler asks for nothing beyond the download.
DeDuplicate holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DeDuplicate has 129 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 48% of DeDuplicate's written reviews are positive against 67% of Shuffler's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
DeDuplicate ships an update every 2 weeks, Shuffler every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DeDuplicate | Shuffler |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (129 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 48.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 129 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 25 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #171 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paolo Pugliese | Al Katib Limited |
Customer experience
DeDuplicate
Shuffler
In-app purchases
DeDuplicate
- Buy me a coffee$0.99
- No Ads - Lifetime$7.99
Shuffler
No in-app purchases
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