Comparison

Cloudling vs Piczo

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

Head to head
About

Cloudling

Automatically identifies and helps you delete unwanted photos and videos from your camera roll. It intelligently groups similar shots, screenshots, and short clips, allowing for quick bulk deletion. The app also features a unique weather-based visualizer for storage status.

Highlights
  • AI-powered duplicate photo detection
  • Automatic grouping of similar shots
  • Identification of screenshots and short clips
  • Bulk deletion of unwanted media
  • Weather-based storage visualization
  • Manual month-by-month review
Read full description

Your storage is full. You open Photos meaning to delete something, scroll for about ten seconds, and close the app again. It's not that you're lazy. It's that a few thousand photos all look equally deletable, and none of them look like a place to start. So Cloudling starts for you. Screenshots, screen recordings, the clip you shot from inside your pocket, the seven near-identical frames of one moment - it pulls those out first. Glance, confirm, delete in bulk. CHECK THE WEATHER FIRST Open the app and you get a sky. Too much junk piled up and you're under thunderstorms. Clear it out and the weather lifts - rain, then sun, then a rainbow. No gigabytes, no percentages. Just look up. WHAT IT FINDS FOR YOU - Similar photos and videos - the burst you shot of one moment - Screenshots and screen recordings - Clips under 5 seconds - pocket recordings, accidental taps - Panoramas and 4K videos Each type gets its own group. Select the whole group, or go through it one by one. SEVEN SHOTS OF ONE MOMENT. KEEP ONE. This is the part that eats your evening, and the part Cloudling put the most work into. At thumbnail size those seven frames look identical. To pick one you open each, zoom in, check who blinked and which is sharp. Half an hour, gone. Cloudling groups them for you. It checks twice - a fast pass over the overall look of each frame, then a careful pass through Apple's Vision framework on the fine details. A photo joins a group only if both passes agree. It also only compares shots taken close together in time. Photos from one dinner, one trip, are minutes apart. Something from last year won't get lumped in with a similar frame from this year. Every group arrives with one shot recommended to keep and the rest already selected. Confirm and they're gone. It's a recommendation, not a verdict - the last word is always yours. WHEN THE CLEANING IS DONE There's a video feed in Cloudling that works the way a short-video app works. Everything in it is yours, and the order is completely random - the last clip might be dinner last week, the next an afternoon three years ago you'd forgotten you recorded. Swipe past what you don't want. Sit with the ones you forgot. Beats scrolling through someone else's life at midnight. SOME PHOTOS A MACHINE SHOULDN'T DECIDE Screenshots and stray clips - a machine handles those fine. Delete in bulk, move on. But that one photo you can't explain why you're keeping? No algorithm gets that. So there's a second way in: flip through your library month by month, one card at a time. Swipe left to drop it, right to keep it. Slower. But everything you delete is something you actually meant to delete. NOTHING IS GONE FOR GOOD Everything you delete goes to the iOS Recently Deleted album and sits there for 30 days. Pull it back from the system Photos app any time in that window. Cloudling never deletes anything outside the system. YOUR PHOTOS NEVER UPLOAD, BECAUSE THERE'S NOWHERE TO UPLOAD THEM Every bit of analysis runs on your iPhone. It isn't that we promise not to upload your photos - there is no server to upload them to. No third-party SDKs. No device identifiers. No usage tracking. No ads. MEMBERSHIP Free gets you a full scan, every category to browse, the most recent month in the organizer, and the first few clips in the feed. Membership unlocks bulk deletion, every month, and the full feed. - Weekly - $1.99 - Yearly - $29.99, with a 3-day free trial - Lifetime - $59.99, one time, never renews Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel any time in iPhone Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of Service: https://legal.cloudling.top/terms_en.html Privacy Policy: https://legal.cloudling.top/privacy_en.html

About

Piczo

Organize your photos into albums and combine overlapping screenshots into a single long image. Discover connections between your pictures and keep your photo library private with on-device processing.

Highlights
  • Interactive photo globe
  • Natural language photo search
  • Discover related photos
  • Build custom albums
  • Combine overlapping screenshots
  • On-device photo analysis
  • No account required
Features
Read full description

Make room for what matters in your photo library. Piczo helps you discover related photos, organize them into albums, and turn overlapping screenshots into a single long image. EXPLORE YOUR PHOTO LIBRARY Browse an interactive photo globe or your familiar grid. Search for photos using natural language, and discover connections between your pictures. DISCOVER RELATED PHOTOS Explore suggested groups of similar photos and screenshots. Review the suggestions and choose what to keep together. BUILD ALBUMS YOUR WAY Start with one photo. As you select more, Piczo updates its suggestions based on all the photos you have chosen. Review new members before adding them to an album. CREATE LONG SCREENSHOTS Combine overlapping screenshots into a long image, then save or share the result. KEEP YOUR PHOTOS PRIVATE Photo analysis, text recognition, search, and grouping happen on your device. No Piczo account is required, and your photo library is not uploaded to our servers. Photos stored in iCloud may be downloaded through Apple Photos when needed. FREE TO START. PRO FOR LIFE. Keep up to 3 albums for free. Lifetime Pro unlocks unlimited albums and lets you turn off the Piczo watermark on exported long screenshots. One purchase. Lifetime access. No subscription. Restore purchases from the Pro screen. Available in English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese with regional wording for Hong Kong and Taiwan, Japanese, and Korean.

Screenshots

Cloudling4 screens
Piczo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cloudling at none against Piczo's 1. Piczo's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (daily vs every 11 days). On price, ads, monetization model 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. Piczo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cloudling asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cloudling ships an update every 11 days, Piczo daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cloudling versus Piczo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCloudlingPiczo
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB271 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer炳光 鲍腾飞 师

Customer experience

Cloudling

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

Piczo

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cloudling

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Piczo

One-time1
  • Piczo Lifetime Pro$9.90

Questions

Is Cloudling free?
Cloudling is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Piczo free?
Piczo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cloudling or Piczo have ads?
Neither Cloudling nor Piczo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cloudling or Piczo?
Cloudling ships an update every 11 days, and Piczo daily. Most recently, Cloudling was updated on October 31, 2026 and Piczo on November 6, 2026.

Other comparisons