CleanCat vs Piczo
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
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.
- Interactive photo globe
- Natural language photo search
- Discover related photos
- Build custom albums
- Combine overlapping screenshots
- On-device photo analysis
- No account required
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Piczo at daily against CleanCat's every 4 days. Piczo also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. CleanCat sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Piczo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 CleanCat against 5.0 for Piczo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
CleanCat ships an update every 4 days, Piczo daily. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CleanCat | Piczo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 271 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wang Weicheng | 腾飞 师 |
Customer experience
CleanCat
Piczo
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
Piczo
- Piczo Lifetime Pro$9.90









