CleanCat vs PixelSnack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CleanCat
Organize your photo and video library with playful interactions. Easily delete unwanted media, archive cherished memories, and secure private moments in a hidden space. Smart grouping and on-device AI help categorize content, making rediscovery effortless.
- Swipe to organize photos and videos
- Duplicate photo detection
- Archiving for saved memories
- Private hidden space with PIN/biometric lock
- Smart and custom photo grouping
- Screenshot organization
- Cross-device sync via iCloud
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CleanCat. Less clutter. More rediscovery. Your photo library holds weekend getaways, everyday moments, a dozen attempts at the same group shot, and screenshots you forgot you saved. Sorting through it should feel less like a chore and more like revisiting a life well lived. CleanCat makes organizing photos and videos playful and personal. Swipe through your memories, delete what you no longer need, give your favorites a place in the archive, and keep private moments tucked away. SWIPE THROUGH YOUR MEMORIES Swipe up or down to send photos and videos into animated portals: delete them, archive them, or move them into your hidden space. Fluid interactions turn a repetitive task into a relaxed browse through your own memories. FEWER NEAR-DUPLICATES. MORE FAVORITES. CleanCat brings repeated shots together so you can compare them without jumping around your library. Choose from highly similar, loosely similar, and identical groups, then fine-tune the similarity threshold to suit you. Smart selection keeps a recommended photo in each group and selects the rest for review, so you can remove near-duplicates in batches while staying in control. AN ARCHIVE FOR MEMORIES WORTH KEEPING Some photos and videos deserve to stay, even if you do not need them in your everyday library. Move them into CleanCat's archive for a tidier camera roll, ready to revisit whenever you like. A SEPARATE SPACE FOR PRIVATE MOMENTS Keep personal photos and videos separate from your regular archive. The hidden space supports PIN protection, with Face ID or Touch ID available for convenient access. PHOTO GROUPS THAT FIT YOUR LIFE Smart groups bring related photos together by content. You can also create custom groups around the subjects that matter to you. On supported devices with Apple Intelligence enabled, AI can analyze photo content and help sort it into your groups. MAKE YOUR SCREENSHOTS USEFUL AGAIN CleanCat uses on-device text recognition and classification to organize saved information, shopping ideas, personal items, design inspiration, and more. Create custom screenshot categories, and use Apple Intelligence enhanced classification on supported devices. YOUR VIDEOS. YOUR OWN PERSONAL FEED. Swipe from one video to the next, like scrolling a feed made entirely from your own life, with you behind the camera. Archive a favorite clip, tuck a private video into the hidden space, or delete what you no longer need. Video cleanup becomes a chance to watch your own stories again. PICK UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF Enable sync on two devices signed into the same iCloud account to keep your CleanCat review progress, archived content, analysis results, and settings in sync. Start on one device and continue on the other. YOUR MEMORIES STAY PERSONAL Photo analysis, text recognition, and supported Apple Intelligence features run on your device. CleanCat includes no third-party advertising or behavioral analytics SDKs. Less to scroll past. More worth coming back to. ------ Membership options (auto-renewable subscriptions): • CleanCat Weekly VIP — 1 week • CleanCat Annual VIP — 1 year • CleanCat Annual VIP Standard — 1 year CleanCat Lifetime VIP is a one-time, non-consumable purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before that period ends. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. Local prices and any free trial eligibility are shown on the Apple purchase confirmation screen. Privacy Policy: https://mooqii.me/cleancat/doc/en/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ CleanCat Terms of Use: https://mooqii.me/cleancat/doc/en/terms
PixelSnack
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Three swipes, and your library breathes again. Swipe right to keep, left to delete, tap the heart for the ones worth saving — two minutes a day clears out years of screenshots, bursts and throwaways. ■ One round, three steps Pick a pool and a time range, swipe to decide, then confirm in a grid review. One photo at a time, with a directional stamp following your thumb. ■ Deletes are always two-step A round only marks photos. Tap any photo in the review grid to rescue it; only after you confirm do they reach Recently Deleted, recoverable for 30 days. Three layers of undo. ■ Seven pools × four time ranges Random · Screenshots · Largest first · Videos · Duplicates & bursts · Live Photos · My Favorites, combined freely with All time / Last 30 days / This year / A specific month. The month grid is sorted by remaining size, so the month worth attacking is obvious. ■ Pick from a burst iOS only hands apps the cover of a burst, so deleting the cover deletes the set — we label it plainly and let you expand the set and keep as many as you want. ■ The heart is the system heart Tapping it writes straight to Favorites in Photos, synced both ways with no parallel bookkeeping. Favorites are a pool too, so you can tidy them later. ■ Fully offline No account, no server, no analytics SDK — the app doesn't even request network access. Every scan happens on device and not one photo leaves it. ■ Slim: free up space without deleting anything PNG screenshots, old JPEGs, high-bitrate videos and ProRAW are re-encoded to HEIC / HEVC — they look the same at half the size or less. Work in batches, try 3 first, and review every photo before the originals go to Recently Deleted (restorable for 30 days). New photos keep their original date and albums; the slim log lists every one. ■ Also Step-by-step undo and resume · full-screen viewer (pinch zoom, hold for Live, video player, swipe up for camera data and location) · stats and achievements · light & dark themes · nine languages · a built-in demo library you can try before granting access. The free plan sorts 50 photos a day, forever, and lets you try slimming on 3 photos. PixelSnack Pro unlocks unlimited sorting, every pool, picking from bursts, time-range filters and batch slimming. SUBSCRIPTIONS & TERMS PixelSnack Pro offers auto-renewable subscriptions (monthly / yearly) and a one-time Lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically 24 hours before the end of the current period unless turned off beforehand; manage or cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sweep.pdg.red/en/privacy Support: https://sweep.pdg.red/en/support
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Verdict
CleanCat and PixelSnack are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. CleanCat sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and PixelSnack sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CleanCat ships an update every 4 days, PixelSnack every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CleanCat | PixelSnack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wang Weicheng | Shenzhen Quanjing Digital Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. |
In-app purchases
CleanCat
- Weekly Membership$1.997 Days
- Annual Membership7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Annual Membership$19.991 Year
- Lifetime Membership$19.99
- Lifetime Membership$39.99
PixelSnack
- PixelSnack Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- PixelSnack Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Upgrade (Yearly)$6.99
- Lifetime Upgrade (Monthly)$9.99
- PixelSnack Pro Lifetime$14.99








