Comparison

Photo Declutter, Bulk Compress vs privid

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

Head to head
About

Photo Declutter, Bulk Compress

Reclaim phone storage by identifying and removing hidden duplicate photos, Live Photo clips, and large file formats. Optimize your library with guided cleanup, bulk compression, and duplicate detection. Take control of your media without losing memories.

Highlights
  • Find hidden storage hoarders
  • Convert Live Photos to stills
  • Reclaim space from edit backups
  • Optimize format overhead
  • Guided cleanup with one tap
  • Bulk compress photos
  • Find and manage duplicates
Features
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Take back control of your photo library — starting with the storage you didn't know you were losing. If your phone storage is full and you can't figure out why, you're not alone. Most photo cleaners go after the obvious: old screenshots, blurry shots, the occasional duplicate. MediaDeclutter Pro goes deeper. It finds the storage that quietly eats 2–4x more space than you think — and shows you exactly where it's hiding before anything changes. FIND HIDDEN HOARDERS Your library is full of files that look like ordinary photos but aren't. Each Live Photo bundles a short video alongside the picture. Each edited photo keeps the original in the background so you can revert later. Each crop or retouch stores another hidden copy. Over thousands of photos, this quiet accumulation becomes gigabytes. MediaDeclutter Pro is built to see what you usually wont see: • Live Photos with their motion clips — convert to stills, keep the memory, free real storage • Edit backups hidden behind every retouched image — reclaim the originals' space • Format overhead from inefficient files — older JPG, oversized captures, uncompressed HEIC • Deep metadata and thumbnails that add up across large libraries This is the storage other cleaners miss. Often the single biggest win in your library. GUIDED CLEANUP — START WITH ONE TAP Knowing where to begin is the hardest part. SmartClean scans your library, ranks actions by impact, and puts the biggest wins first. Instead of digging through thousands of photos manually, you see clear recommendations: convert these HEIC files, reduce these oversized images, remove these duplicates. Every suggestion is reviewed by you before anything happens. Nothing is deleted automatically. Nothing is sent off your device. Three modes adapt to how you work: • Guided — simple recommendations, one decision at a time • Presets — one-tap cleanup with saved settings • Customize — full manual control for technical users BULK COMPRESS — OPTIMIZE AT SCALE A modern 48-megapixel photo uses 8–12x more space than it needs for viewing on your phone. Multiply that across thousands of shots — a full trip, a kids' birthday, a year of daily life can easily hit 10, 20, 40 gigabytes. MediaDeclutter Pro includes a batch compression engine that processes all selected pictures in on pass. Convert older formats to modern HEIF, convert HEIC to JPG for sharing, or reduce oversized images with full control over quality, resolution, and output. Photos stay beautiful while taking a fraction of the space. FIND AND MANAGE DUPLICATES Duplicates accumulate silently through editing, messaging apps, cloud sync, and backups. The duplicate finder scans for exact and near-duplicate images, groups them visually, and suggests which version to keep based on quality and metadata. You stay in control — nothing removed without your confirmation. FOR EVERY PHOTO LIBRARY • Phone storage full • Usually shooting RAW but don't need all of them in RAW • Years of kids' photos you'll never delete but want in a size you actually need • Hundreds of edits, each quietly kept a full backup • Duplicates from WhatsApp, backups, and edits doubled your library MediaDeclutter Pro handles it all with a simple workflow. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Everything happens on-device. Your photos never leave your phone, never touch a server, never get analyzed by anyone but you. No account. No sign-in. WHY MEDIADECLUTTER PRO Most photo cleanup apps are aggressive: they push you toward deletion and treat your library like junk to clear fast. MediaDeclutter Pro is the opposite. It shows you what's actually taking space, explains why, ranks the biggest wins, and waits for your decision. Nothing automatic. Nothing risky. You end the session with gigabytes freed and every photo you cared about still there. Download now and find the hidden storage in your library — safely, on-device, in your control.

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privid

Features
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privid records videos that stay private — encrypted on your device. No Photos library, no sharing. Ever. • PIN lock: nothing is visible until you enter your PIN. The app re-locks the moment you leave it. • Encrypted on device: every recording is encrypted as it is captured — no unencrypted copy ever touches the disk, and recordings never appear in the Files app or your photo library. • Backup & device transfer: your encrypted library can be included in your iCloud or computer backup (on by default, can be turned off). A recovery code shown at setup brings everything back on a new iPhone — backups only ever contain encrypted data. • Record with pause and resume, in portrait or landscape. • Organize into folders with drag & drop and give recordings custom titles. • Built-in trimmer: cut out sections and keep edited versions as a version history alongside the original. • Screen-recording protection: the video is hidden while the screen is being captured. • Auto-wipe: after repeated wrong PIN entries, all videos are deleted. privid collects nothing and sends nothing. Your videos never leave your device unencrypted. Try everything free for 7 days. After that, unlock privid with a single one-time purchase — no subscription. Your existing videos stay playable either way: you can always watch, rename and delete them.

Screenshots

Photo Declutter, Bulk Compress4 screens
privid4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Photo Declutter, Bulk Compress at every 9 days against privid's every 3 weeks. privid's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Photo Declutter, Bulk Compress sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and privid sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Photo Declutter, Bulk Compress ships an update every 9 days, privid every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Photo Declutter, Bulk Compress versus privid: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhoto Declutter, Bulk Compressprivid
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHawkwise Labs OUMatthias Hennemeyer

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Photo Declutter, Bulk Compress

Subscriptions5
  • Premium (Monthly)14 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Premium Family (Monthly)14 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Premium (Yearly)14 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Premium Family (Yearly)14 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Professional (Yearly)14 Days trial$79.991 Year
One-time2
  • Premium - Lifetime Access$99.99
  • Premium - Lifetime (Family)$129.99
1 purchases

privid

One-time1
  • Unlock privid$4.99

Questions

Is Photo Declutter, Bulk Compress free?
Photo Declutter, Bulk Compress is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is privid free?
privid is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Photo Declutter, Bulk Compress or privid have ads?
Neither Photo Declutter, Bulk Compress nor privid shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Photo Declutter, Bulk Compress or privid?
Photo Declutter, Bulk Compress ships an update every 9 days, and privid every 3 weeks. Most recently, Photo Declutter, Bulk Compress was updated on October 7, 2026 and privid on October 11, 2026.

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