Duplicate Cleaner vs Sameish
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Duplicate Cleaner
This app helps you reclaim storage space on your iPhone by identifying and removing duplicate and similar photos and videos. It intelligently keeps the best original copy and ensures nothing sensitive leaves your device during the process.
- Finds duplicate and similar photos
- Identifies duplicate and similar videos
- Keeps the best original copy
- Measures exact storage savings
- Categorizes assets for clarity
- Compares content using perceptual fingerprint
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Your iPhone storage isn't full of apps. It's full of duplicate photos and videos: the same shot, saved four times. The burst you fired at the school play. The 4K clip you sent over WhatsApp that came back compressed and got saved again next to the original. The screenshot you took twice because you weren't sure the first one worked. Duplicate Cleaner finds them, tells you exactly how many gigabytes they're costing you, and removes only the redundant copies. SEE THE NUMBER BEFORE YOU DECIDE Run the scan and see your real total first. The scan is not locked. You are not asked to pay to find out whether there is anything worth cleaning. IT KEEPS THE ORIGINAL This is the part most cleaners get wrong. When Duplicate Cleaner finds two copies of the same shot, it keeps the best one - ranked by resolution, then file size, then duration, then capture date. The 4K original stays. The messaging-app copy goes. Favorites are never proposed for deletion, ever. IT FINDS WHAT EXACT MATCHING MISSES Fifteen near-identical frames from one moment. A video re-encoded at a lower bitrate. A photo re-saved through a messaging app at a different size. Duplicate Cleaner compares image and video content using a perceptual fingerprint - for video, three frames sampled across the clip, all of which must match - not filenames and not file sizes. PHOTOS AND VIDEOS, IN SEPARATE ROWS Duplicate Photos. Similar Shots. Duplicate Videos. Similar Videos. Screenshots. Large Videos. Every asset appears in exactly one row, so the headline total is what you would actually free - never the same file counted twice. EVERY NUMBER IS MEASURED Sizes are read directly from each asset on your device. Nothing is estimated, extrapolated or padded. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR PHONE All comparison happens on device. No account. No sign-in. No upload. Nothing is deleted without the system's own confirmation prompt, and anything removed goes to Recently Deleted, where you have 30 days to change your mind. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO It doesn't merge your contacts. It doesn't block ads. It doesn't scan for viruses. It finds duplicate photos and videos and frees up the space they're wasting. Free up space now. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Sameish
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Sameish finds the photos, videos and files you have more than one of, shows you what they're costing you, and helps you clear them — without anything leaving your iPhone. Scan once, and it sorts your clutter into three kinds: IDENTICAL COPIES The same photo, video or file saved more than once. Matched byte for byte, so a match is never a guess — keeping any one of them keeps exactly the same thing. LOOK-ALIKES Burst shots, the same pose taken four times, a screenshot you took twice, a video that was re-sent and re-compressed. These differ in their bytes, so Sameish compares them by how they look instead. Choose how strict matching should be: Strict, Balanced or Loose. BLURRY SHOTS Single photos that came out shaken or out of focus, sorted worst first — the ones you would never choose to keep. FILES TOO Add a folder — Downloads, Documents, anything in the Files app — and Sameish scans it for exact copies of any file type. It only ever sees the folders you choose. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No account. No uploads. No ads. No analytics. Every comparison happens on your iPhone. Photos stored only in iCloud are skipped and counted, never downloaded behind your back. YOU DECIDE WHAT GOES Nothing is deleted until you confirm it. Every group suggests the best copy to keep, and warns you if you've selected every copy. Photos and videos go to Recently Deleted, where iOS keeps them for 30 days. Files have no Recently Deleted, and Sameish tells you so before you delete them. WHAT'S FREE • Every scan finds all three kinds and tells you how much space each is worth • Delete identical copies, one group at a time • Open the two biggest look-alike groups of each kind, and clear them once • Look through your blurry shots and delete two of them WHAT PREMIUM ADDS • See and delete every look-alike photo and video group • See and delete every blurry shot, worst first • Select the extra copies in every group in one step • Optionally download photos and videos kept only in iCloud, so they can be compared too Premium is available as a yearly subscription or as a one-time purchase that never renews. The yearly subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://mashqur.github.io/sameish/privacy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sameish at every 3 days against Duplicate Cleaner's every 5 days. 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
Both are free to download. Duplicate Cleaner sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Sameish sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Duplicate Cleaner ships an update every 5 days, Sameish every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Duplicate Cleaner | Sameish |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cody Krecicki | Mashqur Habib Himel |
In-app purchases
Duplicate Cleaner
- Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Annual$39.991 Year
Sameish
- Sameish Pro$9.991 Year
- Sameish Lifetime$29.99
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