Comparison

Clean Storage vs Space Cleaner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Clean Storage

This app helps you reclaim storage space by identifying and deleting duplicate photos and videos. It also offers tools to clean up contacts, optimize your calendar, compress files, and manually sort data with intuitive gestures. Step-by-step guides are provided for manual cache cleaning of popular apps.

Highlights
  • Duplicate photo and video removal
  • Contact cleanup
  • Calendar optimization
  • File compression
  • Manual sorting with swipe gestures
  • Step-by-step app cache cleaning guides
Features
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Master Cleaner is a comprehensive application designed to efficiently cleaning up your storage. With its intuitive interface and powerful features, Master Cleaner helps you reclaim valuable space and organize your photos. Key Features: * Smart Cleaner: Master Cleaner intelligently scans your device for duplicate photos and videos, allowing you to effortlessly remove them with a single tap. This feature helps you eliminate unnecessary clutter and free up valuable storage space. * Contacts Cleanup: Manage your contacts effortlessly with Master Cleaner. Easily identify and remove duplicate or outdated contacts, ensuring your address book remains organized and up to date. * Calendar Optimization: Master Cleaner helps you optimize your calendar by identifying and eliminating past events, ensuring your schedule is streamlined and clutter-free. * File Compression: With Master Cleaner, you can compress large files to save storage space without compromising their quality. This feature is particularly useful for videos and photos, allowing you to reclaim significant storage capacity. * Manual Sorting with Swipe Gestures: Take control of your files with the intuitive swipe gestures in Master Cleaner Swipe left to delete unwanted files and swipe right to keep important ones, enabling you to effortlessly organize your data. * Step-by-Step Instructions: Master Cleaner provides easy-to-follow instructions in the form of stories, guiding you through manual cache cleaning for popular apps such as Telegram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Safari, and more. Learn how to delete unnecessary apps and free up space by offloading rarely used applications. Master Cleaner is your all-in-one solution for device optimization. By removing duplicate photos, optimizing contacts and calendars, compressing files, and providing manual sorting options, it ensures that your device stays clean, organized, and runs at its best. Reclaim valuable storage space and optimize your device's performance with Master Cleaner today. NOTE: The app cannot clean the memory of your iPhone or iPad. To get all features available you can take a free trial. The fee will be debited from your Apple ID when you confirm your purchase. The subscription will resume automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. The renewal fee will be debited from your account within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions and cancel them after your purchase in the App Store account settings. By using Clean Manager, you agree to: - Privacy Policy: https://kmmobile.dev/privacy.html - Terms & Conditions: https://kmmobile.dev/terms.html

About

Space Cleaner

This app helps you organize and manage all your files, including documents, photos, and videos. It offers features like duplicate photo cleanup, file conversion, compression, and a powerful search function to free up storage space and boost productivity.

Highlights
  • File organization and management
  • Duplicate photo and video cleanup
  • File preview and search
  • Document and media format conversion
  • File compression and decompression
  • Storage space cleanup
Features
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"Space Cleaner: File Manager" is a powerful file management app. "Space Cleaner: File Manager" can Classify, Sort, Search, Preview Files. Whether managing office documents, photos, videos, or downloads.it can also Cleanup Duplicate Photos and Videos, Clean Phone Storage. File Manager makes file management effortless, enhancing your productivity. "Space Cleaner: File Manager" provides you with a lot of file manager features: 1. File Organization and Management: File Categorization:Automatically categorize documents, images, videos, downloads, and more. File Sorting:Sort files by modification date, name, type, or size with both icon and list views. 2. File Operations: Batch Operations: Support batch deletion, moving, copying, and compressing files for efficient management. File Upload and Creation:Upload scanned documents, take photos, select from the gallery, and create text files and folders. 3. File Preview and Search: File Search:Quickly search by file name to precisely locate the files you need. File Preview:Preview PDF, Word, txt, PPT documents, play video and audio files, and view images. 4. Format Conversion: Document Format Conversion: Convert between PDF, Word, txt, PPT, and other document formats. Image Format Conversion: Convert images between png, jpg, svg, jpeg, and other formats. Audio Format Conversion: Support conversion of audio files such as mp3, wav, wma, m4a, and more. Video Format Conversion: Convert videos between mp4, mov, avi, wmv, and other formats. 5. File Compression and Decompression: File Compression/Decompression: Support zip, rar, and other archive formats for compressing and decompressing files, saving storage space. 6. Phone Cleaner: Photo Cleaning: Automatically categorize and delete duplicate photo and remove duplicate video, clean large video, free up blurry photo, and burst shots/screenshots. Cleanup Storage Space: Identify and cleanup unnecessary files to freeup storage space. Choose one of the subscription options below to get unlimited access to all file manager features: • Weekly Subscription • Yearly Subscription FREE TRIAL FOR 3 DAYS - OFFERING UNLIMITED FILE MANAGER FOR A LIMITED TIME You may cancel your subscription at any time Free trial allows you unlimited access to all file manager features for the duration of 3 days. Your account will be automatically charged for renewal, based on the annual subscription plan, within 24 hours before the end of the 3 days free trial period. You can cancel auto-renewal at any time, given that the cancellation is at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when making a purchase of an auto-renewing subscription. Manage your subscription directly from your iPhone, Subscriptions can be managed by the user and auto-renewal can be turned off by going to the Account Settings: - Open the Settings app. - Tap your name. - Tap Subscriptions. - Tap the subscription that you want to manage. Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/privacy-policyfile Terms of Use: https://sites.google.com/view/terms-of-use-file

Screenshots

Clean Storage4 screens
Space Cleaner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Clean Storage at free with in-app purchases against Space Cleaner's subscription. Clean Storage also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (55% vs 44%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Clean Storage sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Space Cleaner sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Clean Storage against 4.5 for Space Cleaner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7.9K and 3.8K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of Clean Storage's written reviews are positive against 44% of Space Cleaner's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clean Storage ships an update every 11 days, Space Cleaner every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Clean Storage versus Space Cleaner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClean StorageSpace Cleaner
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (7.9K ratings)4.5 (3.8K ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.3% of reviews — better44.3% of reviews
Number of ratings7.9K — better3.8K
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size215 MB197 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKM MOBILE LTDAppCentury Apps

Customer experience

Clean Storage

All ratings7,865 ratings
Positive85.5%
Neutral8.0%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews103 reviews
Positive55.3%
Neutral7.8%
Negative36.9%

Space Cleaner

All ratings3,760 ratings
Positive87.7%
Neutral6.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive44.3%
Neutral3.3%
Negative52.5%

User reviews

Clean Storage

From 7.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Fast cleaning process
  • 💡 Useful cleaning feature
  • 🎉 Satisfied with results

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes or freezes app
  • 💰 Expensive subscription
  • 🤔 Unclear instructions
  • 🙄 Aggressive advertising

Space Cleaner

From 3.8K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Effective storage cleaning
  • 💡 Helpful for iPhone storage issues

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Forced subscription
  • 💰 Misleading 'free' claims
  • 🔒 No option to cancel subscription

Bugs and requests

Clean Storage

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App closes when trying to merge contacts
  • Duplicate photo detection not working as expected
  • Cleaning process doesn't always free up expected space

Requested features

4 requests
  • Provide more detailed cleaning information
  • Improve user interface and navigation
  • Offer a free version with limited functionality
  • Add an option to cancel subscription easily

Space Cleaner

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Subscription charges even without using the app
  • Unclear how to delete the app

Requested features

2 requests
  • Provide clear subscription details
  • Add option to easily cancel subscription

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Clean Storage

Subscriptions5
  • Premium3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Premium3 Days trial$6.997 Days
  • Month subscription$9.991 Month
Show 2 more
  • Premium$29.991 Year
  • Yearly subscription$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime subscription$39.99
12 purchases

Space Cleaner

Subscriptions12
  • File Manager Pro 1 Week3 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • File Manager Pro 1 Week7 Days trial2 variants$6.997 Days
  • File Manager Pro 1 Week7 Days trial$8.997 Days
Show 9 more
  • File Manager Pro 1 Week7 Days trial2 variants$9.997 Days
  • File Manager Pro 1 Week3 Days trial$9.997 Days
  • File Manager Pro 1 Month1 Month trial$9.991 Month
  • File Manager Pro 1 Week3 Days trial$12.997 Days
  • File Manager Pro 1 Week7 Days trial$12.997 Days
  • File Manager Pro 1 Year$29.991 Year
  • File Manager Pro 1 Year$34.991 Year
  • File Manager Pro 1 Year$39.991 Year
  • File Manager Pro 1 Year3 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Clean Storage free?
Clean Storage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Space Cleaner free?
Space Cleaner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Clean Storage or Space Cleaner?
Space Cleaner is rated higher. Clean Storage averages 4.4 out of 5 from 7.9K ratings, while Space Cleaner averages 4.5 from 3.8K ratings.
Do Clean Storage or Space Cleaner have ads?
Space Cleaner shows ads; Clean Storage does not.
Which is updated more often, Clean Storage or Space Cleaner?
Clean Storage ships an update every 11 days, and Space Cleaner every 2 weeks. Most recently, Clean Storage was updated on October 30, 2026 and Space Cleaner on October 30, 2026.

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