CleanRoll vs Lumière Instant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CleanRoll
Organize your photo library with a simple swipe-based interface. Quickly review and decide to keep, favorite, or delete photos, screenshots, and videos. Free up storage space while preserving your cherished memories.
- Swipe to keep, favorite, or delete
- Review photos, screenshots, and videos
- See potential storage savings
- Confirm deletions before removal
- Minimal and private interface
Read full descriptionHide full description
Find near-duplicate photos fast, choose what stays, and clean your camera roll with complete control over every deletion. CleanRoll turns photo cleanup into a simple decision: swipe left to mark a photo or video for deletion, right to keep it, or up to add it to Favorites. Nothing is removed until you review and confirm your choices. CLEAN SMARTER • Find near-duplicate and similar shots • Compare each stack and keep the sharpest • Surface blurry photos, old screenshots, and large videos • Browse your library by month, place, album, or media type DESIGNED TO FEEL AT HOME ON iOS • Rebuilt on the iOS design system, with familiar tabs and navigation • A photo-focused swipe view with simple controls • Dynamic Type and Increased Contrast supported throughout BUILD A SIMPLE HABIT • Start a curated Today mix • Track daily goals, streaks, reviewed items, and storage freed • Clean in manageable batches instead of one giant session • Undo decisions before confirming REVIEW BEFORE DELETE • See everything marked for deletion in one place • Change your choices before committing • Deleted items move to Recently Deleted in Photos, where they remain recoverable for a limited time PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account required. Duplicate detection, blur scoring, browsing, and swipe decisions happen on your iPhone. CleanRoll never uploads your photos for analysis. Optional usage analytics is off by default and never includes your photos, thumbnails, filenames, album names, or photo locations. FREE TO START Review up to 50 items free every 24 hours. Unlock unlimited cleanup with a one-time purchase—no subscription. Free your storage. Keep your memories.
Lumière Instant
Arrange your photos on a digital canvas, simulating the feel of instant film development. Add handwritten notes to the back of your prints and customize their appearance with various film and paper styles. Export your creations as postcards, calendars, or framed pictures.
- Digital photo canvas
- Instant film simulation
- Handwritten notes on photos
- Multiple export formats (postcard, calendar, framed)
- Customizable film and paper styles
- Home screen widget
Read full descriptionHide full description
Lumière is a canvas you arrange your photos on. Bring photos in from your library, or take one with the instant camera — the print slides out of the camera just like real instant film and develops in front of you. When it's done it lands on the canvas, where you can drag it into place, press and hold to pin it, double-tap for a closer look, or turn it over and type a note about that day, displayed in a handwriting font. Photos don't have to sit in a tidy list. Arrange them the way the days actually felt. When you want to take a moment out of the app, make it a postcard, a calendar or a framed picture — or keep a corner of the canvas on your home screen. · A canvas of your own Pan and zoom the canvas, drag the prints anywhere, press and hold to pin, double-tap to look closer. Spread a whole trip across it, or let everyday fragments gather slowly. Tidy it in one tap when it gets messy; drag a print to the bottom and let go, and it scatters into warm dust — undoable at any time. · Take one, and let it develop Press the shutter and the print slides out, developing in front of you. Tap the emerging print to place it on the canvas sooner. Sixteen film looks and eight paper styles give each moment its own texture. The paper you choose also sets the colour of the letter page on the back. · Turn it over, write that day down Put how it felt on the back of the photo. Three handwriting faces and six ink colours — dark brown, slate blue, pine green, crimson, wisteria, gilt — so the words become part of the photo too. · One photo, seven ways to mount it Classic, Letter, Verse, Daily, Framed, Calendar and Postcard. The new Postcard style holds both sides of a postcard in one image: the photo itself on the front; on the back a stamp, a postmark, your note on ruled lines and a signature. Paper and ink colours are drawn from the photo, and even the stamp is a thumbnail of this very photo. Save the finished image to your library, or share it as it is. · Every month has a canvas of its own Photos file themselves by month. Go back to last month and the prints, and everything you wrote, are still where you left them. · Home screen widget Drag and pinch the canvas until the corner you want sits inside the frame, then keep it on your home screen. · Date stamp Tap the corner of the viewfinder and the date is burned into the bottom of the print in small quartz-orange type. Free, always. Available in 简体中文, English, 日本語 and 한국어, switchable inside the app at any time. Every photo and every word stays on your device. Nothing is uploaded. No ads, no account. About Lumière Pro Taking photos, importing from your library, the canvas, notes, monthly archives, the date stamp, the home screen widget, and saving or sharing in the Classic and Calendar styles all work without Pro. The Calendar style is free for a limited time. Pro unlocks creative material: 13 film looks (3 more are free), 7 paper styles (1 more is free), 5 ink colours (1 more is free), 2 handwriting faces (1 more is free), and the Letter, Verse, Daily, Framed and Postcard mount styles. Monthly and yearly Pro are auto-renewable subscriptions. They renew automatically 24 hours before the current period ends and can be cancelled at any time in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions. A one-time lifetime purchase is also available and never renews. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Subscription terms: https://lumiere-site-alf.pages.dev/terms Privacy policy: https://lumiere-site-alf.pages.dev/privacy
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Lumière Instant at every 3 days against CleanRoll's every 3 weeks. Lumière Instant also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, rating, ratings volume and 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
Both are free to download. CleanRoll sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Lumière Instant sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CleanRoll against 5.0 for Lumière Instant. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
CleanRoll ships an update every 3 weeks, Lumière Instant every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CleanRoll | Lumière Instant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SLOCC LLC | 志健 袁 |
In-app purchases
CleanRoll
- CleanRoll Unlimited$7.99
Lumière Instant
- Lumiere Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Lumiere Pro Yearly$4.991 Year
- Lumiere Pro Lifetime$8.99









