DeDuplicate vs Sagaseru
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!
Sagaseru
Record audio and instantly search your spoken words. Find specific moments within recordings by typing keywords, and tap any transcribed sentence to jump directly to that point in playback. Edit transcripts to improve searchability.
- Search recordings by spoken words
- Tap transcript to play specific moments
- Edit transcripts for improved search
- Fully on-device processing
- Real-time recording indicator
- Effortless organizing and batch processing
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A voice recorder you can search by what you said. Find the exact moment without scrubbing through audio. One-time purchase. No subscriptions, no ads, no account. ■ Search across every recording Type "budget" and only the recordings where you said it appear. The matching sentence is pulled out and shown in the list, so you can tell which recording is the right one before opening it. No more inventing clever file names just to find things later. ■ Tap a line, hear that moment The transcript is laid out one sentence per line, each stamped with its time. Tap it and playback jumps there. The line currently playing is highlighted and scrolls into view. Find the 30 seconds that matter in a one-hour meeting. ■ Fix the transcript yourself Speech recognition is never perfect, so this app is built around correcting it. Fix a name or a technical term once and you can search for it from then on. Your edits become searchable too. ■ Export with timestamps (new) Select several recordings and export their transcripts and audio in one go. Every line of the transcript file starts with its time, like [12:34], so you can still find where something was said after moving it to your notes or your Mac. Send it to Files, Mail, AirDrop or anywhere in the iOS share sheet. ■ Recordings and transcripts stay on your device By default, transcription runs entirely on your iPhone; your audio and transcripts never leave it. Works in airplane mode. No sign-up, no ads. To improve the app, only anonymous usage data (such as which screens are opened) is counted with Google Analytics (you can turn this off in Settings). (Settings has an "also use online recognition" option for devices without an on-device model. It is off by default; only when you turn it on is audio sent to Apple.) ■ You can always tell it is recording A pulsing red indicator, large elapsed time, and a live input meter stay on screen, so you never discover afterwards that nothing was captured. ■ Effortless organizing - Rename anything, any time (one swipe) - Group into folders and filter by them - Multi-select to delete or export in bulk, with select-all - Batch-transcribe everything not yet processed ■ Playback - 1.0x, 1.5x and 2.0x speed - Skip forward and back 10 seconds - Copy the transcript Made for people who record meetings, interviews, lectures and spoken ideas, and want to actually use them afterwards. Note: Transcription uses the iOS speech recognition engine. Some devices or languages may download a recognition model on first use. Transcription languages: English (US), Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese (Taiwan) This app has no cloud sync by design - recordings cannot be lost in a sync failure if there is no sync.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sagaseru at 100% against DeDuplicate's 48%. Sagaseru also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and price ($0.99 vs $7.99). DeDuplicate's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On ads 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
DeDuplicate costs $7.99 and Sagaseru $0.99 up front. DeDuplicate sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Sagaseru asks for nothing beyond the download.
DeDuplicate ships an update every 2 weeks, Sagaseru every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DeDuplicate | Sagaseru |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (129 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 48.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 129 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paolo Pugliese | Daisuke Yamaguchi |
Customer experience
DeDuplicate
Sagaseru
In-app purchases
DeDuplicate
- Buy me a coffee$0.99
- No Ads - Lifetime$7.99
Sagaseru
No in-app purchases









