Best Photo Cleaner Apps Compared

Every photo cleaner lets you swipe through photos and get rid of duplicates. This page compares Picmori (our app) with CleanMy®Phone by MacPaw, Swipewipe by MWM, Slidebox and the built-in iOS Photos app. The first rows show what they all share. The rest show what, among these five, only Picmori has: cleaning turned into a game, with a map, levels and a companion.

Side-by-side comparison

Picmori: a photo cleaner that plays like a game

In Picmori your gallery becomes a world map. Each chapter on the road is a short session of 25 photos taken from your own library: one year, one colour, the heaviest files and so on. You swipe right to keep and left to delete. Nothing is deleted until you confirm at the end of the session. Exact copies and burst shots arrive as one group, and Mori suggests which shot to keep, by resolution, file size and your favourites.

Along the way you earn XP, open chests, dress up Mori and find out which gallery hero you are. Outside the map there are 8 review modes. Your own, Discover and Recent are free. Duplicates, Screenshots, Quick Cleanup, One Day in the Past and Then and Now come with Premium, and each is handed out at its own Premium point on the map.

• Price: free, with no ads and no account. There is no daily limit on sessions or deleted photos, only a short pause after each chapter on the map. Premium removes the pauses and unlocks the Premium modes. It comes as a subscription (weekly, or yearly with a free trial) or a one-time Lifetime purchase.
• Privacy: photos are analysed on your phone and never uploaded.
• Platforms: iPhone and iPad with iOS 16 or later, Android 7.0 or later.

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CleanMy®Phone: a polished toolkit for iPhone

MacPaw's cleaner sorts your library into categories: duplicates, similar and blurry photos, screenshots and large videos. It also has a swipe mode and compresses videos. It runs on iOS 17 or later and has no Android version. After a 3-day trial it needs a subscription (as listed in the US App Store in September 2026: $7.99 a month or $36.99 a year).

Swipewipe: swipe through your library month by month

Swipewipe walks you through your library one month at a time. It also finds similar and blurry photos and old screenshots, and has an "On This Day" widget. It needs iOS 18 or later and is also on Android. The free version shows ads, and a subscription removes them.

Slidebox: cleaning plus sorting into albums

Slidebox is as much an organiser as a cleaner: swipe to delete, tap to file photos into albums as you go, and compare similar photos side by side. It is on iPhone and Android. The free version shows ads; the full version comes as a subscription or a one-time purchase.

iOS Photos: the free starting point

Before installing anything, try what is already on your iPhone. The Duplicates album under Utilities merges exact copies, and Screenshots under Media Types lets you delete screenshots in bulk. It is free and built in, but there is no swipe review, and burst shots and retakes stay where they are. Step by step: how to delete duplicate photos on iPhone and how to delete screenshots on iPhone.

Files by Google: the free starting point on Android

Before installing anything, try Files by Google, preinstalled on many Android phones and free on Google Play. Its Menu → Clean tab finds duplicate files and suggests old screenshots and large files. It is free, but it only finds exact copies, so burst shots and retakes stay where they are. Step by step, with My Files on Samsung: how to delete duplicate photos on Android.

Which one should you pick?

• You want cleaning to feel like a game, on iPhone or Android, with no ads: Picmori.
• You want a full paid toolkit on iPhone: CleanMy®Phone.
• You want to go through your library month by month: Swipewipe.
• You want to sort photos into albums while cleaning: Slidebox.
• You only need exact duplicates gone, right now: iOS Photos on iPhone or Files by Google on Android, both free.

Want cleaning to be a game? See how Picmori compares with other photo cleaner games. Whichever you choose, remember that on iPhone deleted photos stay in Recently Deleted for about 30 days, while on Android photos deleted with Picmori are removed permanently. See our step-by-step cleaning guides for iPhone and Android.