10 Best Apps to Delete Duplicate Photos on iPhone (Including Free Options)

When the Duplicates album fails you (more on this later), using an app to delete duplicate photos on your iPhone or iPad is the most convenient solution. However, not all apps are created equal. Good news: you have a lot of options. Bad news: you have a LOT of options.

To help you narrow down your choices as well as get an idea of how these tools work, we came up with the 10 best apps to delete duplicate photos on iPhone along with their detailed breakdowns. Read on!

What We Looked for in Duplicate Cleaner Apps

The Apple App Store is a sea of duplicate photo cleaner apps. If you’ve already tried looking for one, you’ll know. To come up with our top 10, we distilled the most important characteristics of a duplicate cleaner app into a strict (but sensible) set of criteria.

While we did our best to exclusively include apps that matched our criteria exactly, there were some apps that still made the cut because they (1) only lacked 1 or 2 minor attributes and/or (2) they had a certain tool or feature that made up for their weaknesses.

• 🤗 Ease of use – We prioritized apps that were accessible to all users, especially beginners. Not all apps on this list are “pretty”, but they are all super easy to understand and use right away.
• 🤖 Algorithm quality – As we alluded to in the intro, the Duplicates album in the Photos app doesn’t always catch ’em all. We made sure that the apps we chose were good at detecting not only exact duplicates but also “similar” photos – especially those that iOS’ own Duplicates album fails to pick up.
• ⚙️ Customization – We gave preference to apps that allowed users to customize their scanning and/or browsing preferences so users can browse and delete duplicates by different criteria.
• 💸 Pricing – We did our best to only include apps that were free (or had a decent free trial). While some apps on this list (and in the App Store) are paid, we made sure their trial is actually useful and shows you some results before you pay. Also, for paid apps, we checked that their price tag is worth it—at least for their target audience.

Top 10 Apps to Delete Duplicate Photos on iPhone

Based on the criteria above, here are our 10 recommendations. To help you quickly grasp what these apps have to offer (while giving you as much info as possible), we provided short summaries for each entry, their pros and cons, what platforms are supported, and how much they cost.

1. Clever Cleaner

We’ll start our rating with Clever Cleaner: AI CleanUp App from CleverFiles. It’s an iPhone cleaner that combines duplicate and similar photo detection with tools for managing videos, screenshots, Live Photos, and other media that take up storage. The app can be used for free thanks to daily renewable limits, has no ads, and offers Premium as an optional upgrade.

For duplicate cleanup, Clever Cleaner uses the Similars tool. It detects exact duplicates as well as visually similar photos, groups them together, and automatically selects the Best Shot in each group. You can review each group manually or delete all selected duplicates and similar photos in one go.

The app also gives you several ways to work through the rest of your photo library. You can sort videos to find the largest ones first, organize screenshots by size or date, convert Live Photos to still images, and use Swipe to quickly decide which photos to keep or delete. There’s also a separate Compression tab for reducing the size of photos, videos, screenshots, and Live Photos.

Personal Experience: What we liked most during testing was the balance between automation and manual control. In Similars, Clever Cleaner preselects the Best Shot in each group, and we found these suggestions to be quite good. You can trust its selection when you want to move quickly or review each group yourself before deleting anything.

The sorting options are also handy when storage is the main problem. Instead of going through hundreds of files in random order, you can start with the largest videos or screenshots and target the files that take up the most space first.

App Store User Opinion: Clever Cleaner currently has a 4.8-star rating from around 83,000 ratings on the App Store. Users often praise how quickly they can work through large photo libraries and how the app groups similar shots together instead of limiting cleanup to exact duplicates. The Best Shot suggestions also get positive feedback, although users don’t always agree with the app’s choice and appreciate being able to review the groups themselves.

The lack of ads is another recurring positive point in reviews. Some users also mention switching between different cleanup categories as a more manageable way to work through an otherwise overwhelming photo library.

App Store page: Link

• Seller: CleverFiles
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 16 or later
• Size: 123 MB
• Price: Free with daily renewable limits; optional monthly and lifetime Premium plans

2. Remo Duplicate Photos Remover

Remo Duplicate Photos Remover is a widely known free iPhone app that deletes duplicate photos. What we like about it (aside from its $0 price tag) is that it’s a really straightforward app that does exactly what it says it does – nothing more, nothing less.

All features are easily accessible and clearly labeled. Remo organizes your duplicates into categories you can browse, allows you to mark or unmark duplicate groups or individual photos as needed, and even saves the best photo in a group so you can get through the process faster.

Personal Experience: In our experience, Remo works best with smaller photo libraries. With a few thousand photos, scanning can take quite a while, and we noticed that the iPhone gets noticeably warm during the process. For a smaller library, though, the simple interface and limited feature set actually work in its favor – there isn’t much to configure before you can start cleaning.

App Store User Opinion: Remo currently has a 4.6-star rating from around 14,000 ratings on the App Store. Many users like its simple approach and report that it does a good job finding duplicates without putting basic cleanup tools behind a subscription.

Reviews from users with larger photo libraries are more mixed. Several mention that scanning can take a long time or appear to pause before finishing. One user with around 6,000 photos left the scan running overnight, while another reported that scanning a library of roughly 30,000 photos made the iPhone noticeably hot. There are also occasional complaints about the accuracy of Similar scans, so the results are worth reviewing before deletion.

App Store page: Link

• Seller: Remo Software Private Limited
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 9.0 or later
• Size: 7.7 MB
• Price: Free

3. Cleaner: Free Up Storage Guru

Unlike the last entry, Cleaner Guru is not just an app to remove duplicate photos. It’s an all-in-one cleaner with tools for managing photos, videos, contacts, and other data on your iPhone. It has a lot more features than standalone duplicate cleaners, which makes it an attractive choice if you want one app to handle several cleanup tasks.

Cleaner Guru can find duplicate and similar photos, screenshots, selfies, burst photos, and large videos. You can also compress videos, merge duplicate contacts, remove incomplete contacts, clean up old calendar events, and keep private photos in its password-protected Secret Space.

Personal Experience: We particularly liked how many ways Cleaner Guru gives you to narrow down what you want to clean. You can work with different types of media separately, look for photos from a specific time period, or organize videos by size when you want to target the biggest storage hogs first.

Its contact cleaner is useful as well, but this is one feature we’d recommend using more carefully. In our testing, the app could struggle with contacts that had no names even when they contained valid business information, which could lead to unwanted merges or deletions.

App Store User Opinion: Cleaner Guru currently has a 4.5-star rating from over 8,000 ratings on the App Store. Some users praise how easy it is to review what the app has selected before deleting anything.

The negative reviews are worth paying attention to, though. Users have reported cases where photos grouped as similar were different enough that bulk deletion could remove something they wanted to keep. There are also complaints about the contact cleaner misinterpreting valid contacts with missing names. The app automatically backs up contacts before merging or deleting them, but we’d still recommend reviewing its selections rather than cleaning everything blindly.

In summary, Cleaner Guru is a good option if you want a more well-rounded cleaner and don’t mind paying for access to its full feature set.

App Store page: Link

• Seller: AppLavia LLC
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 13.0 or later
• Size: 93.5 MB
• Price: Free trial; $6.99 ~ $49.99 (weekly and annual subscriptions available)

4. Clean Your Photos for iPhone

Clean Your Photos for iPhone is another all-around cleaning app for the iPhone. You can use it to manage photos, videos, and contacts, but it also has several extra tools we haven’t seen in every app on this list. These include media compression, large-file detection, cache cleanup, and battery health monitoring.

Its core cleaning features cover duplicate photos, videos, and contacts, with options to remove multiple items at once. You can also filter your camera roll to find the photos and videos taking up the most storage instead of going through the entire library manually.

Personal Experience: What stood out most during our testing was the speed. Clean Your Photos scans and organizes files quickly, and filtering media by size makes it easy to focus on the biggest storage hogs first.

Duplicate detection requires a little more attention, though. We found that the app could sometimes treat edited photos as duplicates and favor the original version, so we wouldn’t recommend blindly accepting all of its selections. A quick review before deletion is definitely worthwhile.

App Store User Opinion: Clean Your Photos currently has a 4.6-star rating from around 2,800 ratings on the App Store. Some users specifically praise its speed. One reviewer with around 4,000 photos said the app completed its analysis in under a minute and helped them free up about 2 GB.

Not everyone has had the same experience with its duplicate selections. Another reviewer reported that the app repeatedly picked original photos as the best versions instead of edited copies they wanted to keep. This lines up with our own reason for recommending a manual review before deleting a large batch.

Overall, Clean Your Photos is a fast and feature-packed cleaner, particularly if you want to tackle more than duplicate photos. Just pay closer attention to its automatic selections when edited and original versions appear in the same group.

App Store page: Link

• Seller: Kyle Allen
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 14.0 or later
• Size: 53.1 MB
• Price: Free trial; $2.99 ~ $39.99 (weekly and annual subscriptions available)

5. Boost Cleaner – Clean Up Smart

At number 5, we have Boost Cleaner – Clean Up Smart. It can find duplicate and similar photos, including selfies and Live Photos, and lets you review the results before deciding what to remove.

You can also filter photos by date or location, find large files that take up the most storage, and clean up duplicate contacts. Overall, the feature set is fairly typical for an iPhone cleaner, but everything is organized in a way that makes the app easy to pick up.

Personal Experience: We found Boost Cleaner easy to navigate, and its filters are particularly handy if you have a large photo library. Being able to narrow photos down by date or location saves you from scrolling through everything at once, while the large-file tools give you a quicker way to target storage hogs.

The cleanup process itself is simple, but there isn’t much here that sets Boost Cleaner apart from the other all-in-one cleaners on our list. It does the basics well, though, and doesn’t require much time to figure out.

App Store User Opinion: Boost Cleaner currently has a 4.5-star rating from over 67,000 ratings on the App Store. Many users praise how easy it is to find and remove duplicate photos, particularly when dealing with years of accumulated pictures.

The more critical reviews often focus on the subscription model and limitations of the free experience. Some users also report that the app can occasionally group photos together that they wouldn’t personally consider duplicates, so reviewing the selections before deleting a large batch is a good idea.

Overall, Boost Cleaner remains a solid duplicate photo cleaner if you want an easy-to-use app with additional tools for managing photos, large files, and contacts.

App Store page: Link

• Seller: Whistle Studios LLC
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later
• Size: 157.1 MB
• Price: Free trial; $5.99 ~ $49.99 (weekly and annual subscriptions available)

6. Duplicate Photos Fixer

Duplicate Photos Fixer is more specialized than most apps on our list. It focuses entirely on duplicate and similar photos, but gives you considerably more control over how they’re detected.

Its standout feature is the customizable scan. You can adjust the matching level, pixel similarity, time difference, and GPS criteria, or choose one of the predefined scan modes. The app then groups the results and lets you mark photos manually or automatically select duplicates while leaving one copy in each group.

Personal Experience: We liked having more control over what the app considers a duplicate, particularly when working with similar rather than identical photos. The interface is less convenient. Previewing photos takes several taps, and you can’t simply swipe between full-size previews when comparing images.

What surprised us more is that Duplicate Photos Fixer is paid from the start. There’s no free version or trial to see how well its scanner works with your own photo library before buying it. With several capable competitors offering free cleanup or at least a trial, paying upfront makes this one a bit of a gamble.

App Store User Opinion: Duplicate Photos Fixer currently has a 4.2-star rating from around 3,200 ratings on the App Store. Some users report very fast results even with libraries containing several thousand photos and praise the app for removing large batches of duplicates in minutes.

The interface is a recurring complaint, though. Users specifically mention how cumbersome it is to open and compare similar photos individually. There are also mixed reports from people with very large libraries, including long scans and missed duplicates, so performance seems to depend considerably on the size and contents of your library.

Overall, Duplicate Photos Fixer offers more control over duplicate detection than many simpler cleaners, but the upfront price is harder to recommend when you can’t test it first.

App Store page: Link

• Seller: Shrishail Rana
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 8.0 or later
• Size: 17.2 MB
• Price: $4.99

7. CleanMy®Phone: Storage Cleaner

CleanMy®Phone, developed by MacPaw (the team behind the popular CleanMyMac), is an AI-powered iPhone cleaner focused primarily on managing photos and videos. It can find duplicates and similar photos, identify blurry or otherwise unwanted shots, and organize them into groups for review. The app also comes with a 3-day free trial, so you can test its cleanup tools before committing to a subscription.

Beyond photo cleanup, CleanMy®Phone includes tools for managing duplicate contacts and monitoring how much storage different categories in your Photos app consume. This gives you a quick breakdown of where your photo library space is going and which categories may be worth cleaning first. There’s also a network speed test, which feels somewhat unrelated to the main purpose of the app but may still be useful to some users.

Personal Experience: CleanMy®Phone looks polished, but we didn’t find the interface quite as intuitive as its design initially suggests. Some features aren’t where we naturally expected to find them, and it’s easy to miss a tool unless you deliberately go through the different sections to see what each one contains.

The cleanup itself works well. Duplicate and similar photos are organized into groups that you can review before deletion, and we liked being able to see how storage is distributed across different types of content in the Photos app. Still, compared with other cleaners on our list, it can take a little more time to learn where everything is.

App Store User Opinion: CleanMy®Phone currently has a 4.6-star rating from over 23,000 ratings on the App Store. Many users praise its ability to sort through large photo libraries and identify similar or unnecessary photos, with some reporting that they were able to reclaim several gigabytes of storage.

Negative reviews are more mixed. Some users report that the app doesn’t always identify similar photos the way they expect, while others find the subscription expensive for a cleaner they may only need occasionally. The 3-day free trial at least gives you an opportunity to see how well its cleanup works with your own library before paying.

Overall, CleanMy®Phone combines a polished design with a good selection of photo, storage, and contact management tools. It does its job well, but the navigation isn’t always as intuitive as the interface makes it look at first.

App Store page: Link

• Seller: MacPaw Way Ltd
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later
• Size: 176.4 MB
• Price: Free trial; $2.99 ~ $39.99 (monthly, annual, and unlimited subscriptions available)

8. Slidebox: Photo Cleaner App

Slidebox: Photo Cleaner App is a super intuitive photo manager that gives you way better control over your photo organization. Again, we preface this by saying that Slidebox is not an app specifically designed to clear duplicates but it still makes deletion and review easier thanks to swipe gestures. You can also easily undo the last action as an added safety net.

It’s one of the best album organizers on the app store – it only takes 1 tap to save a photo to an album and all changes you make in Slidebox directly affect the Photos app (and by extension, iCloud).

Personal Experience: For us, Slidebox makes the most sense if you want to keep the entire cleanup process under your control but do it faster than you can in the native Photos app. Instead of letting an algorithm decide what should go, you review the photos yourself and use swipe gestures to quickly sort or delete them.

We also liked how easy it is to organize photos into albums while you’re going through them. The interface looks great, and the whole process feels quick and natural once you get used to the gestures.

App Store User Opinion: Slidebox currently has a 4.8-star rating from around 17,000 ratings on the App Store. Users frequently praise its swipe-based controls and how much easier they make it to sort and organize large photo libraries. Reviews also highlight album organization as one of the app’s strongest features.

Some complaints focus on smaller organizational and navigation limitations, particularly when dealing with lots of albums. Overall, though, the user feedback is very positive about the app’s core photo-management experience.

App Store page: Link

• Seller: Slidebox LLC
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later
• Size: 47.5 MB
• Price: $1.99 ~ $49.99 (monthly, annual subscriptions available; one-time purchase)

9. Duplicate Cleaner App

Duplicate Cleaner App ihas grown into a much broader storage cleaner than its name suggests. It can find duplicate and similar photos, screenshots, and videos, but also comes with tools for compressing media, editing photo and video metadata, organizing albums, and protecting private files in a Secret Vault.

Contact management is still one of its stronger areas. The app can detect and merge duplicate contacts, bulk delete entries, and filter matches by details such as names, phone numbers, and email addresses. There’s also a backup and restore tool, so you can save your contacts locally, export them as a CSV, and schedule regular backups.

The feature list goes even further with storage and battery information, network details, and a surprisingly extensive System Diagnostics section for checking things like the display, audio, cameras, buttons, sensors, and connectivity.

Personal Experience: There’s definitely a lot packed into this app. We still particularly like its approach to contacts because you get more control than with the basic merge tools found in many cleaners, and having a backup option makes experimenting with contact cleanup feel a little safer.

The photo cleaner is much more capable than it used to be as well. It now covers both duplicate and similar photos and videos, and you can review the results before deleting anything. That said, with so many unrelated tools packed into one app, it can feel more like an all-purpose iPhone utility than a focused duplicate photo cleaner.

App Store User Opinion: Duplicate Cleaner App currently has a 4.7-star rating from around 3,400 ratings on the App Store. Positive reviews often highlight how easy it is to find and remove duplicate photos and contacts, with some users specifically appreciating having several cleanup tools in one app.

Critical reviews are more mixed, with complaints ranging from duplicate detection not finding everything users expected to issues with individual features. Given how broad the app has become, the experience can depend quite a bit on which of its tools you actually plan to use.

Overall, Duplicate Cleaner App is no longer just a contact manager with a basic photo cleaner attached. It offers one of the broader feature sets on our list, and it makes the most sense if you want duplicate cleanup alongside contact management, media compression, privacy tools, and device diagnostics.

App Store page: Link

• Seller: Softices Consultancy Private Limited
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.0 or later
• Size: 69.7 MB
• Price: Free

10. Hyper Cleaner: Clean up Photos

And last on our list is Hyper Cleaner. This photo manager app blends smart gallery organization with useful storage-saving tools and even some privacy extras. You can delete duplicates, compress large videos, and clean up screenshots, but the experience goes beyond pure utility.

What sets Hyper Cleaner apart is its Memories feature, which organizes photos by months and days and encourages you to turn cleaning into a habit. You swipe left to delete a photo and right to keep it, then review your choices at the end of each session. The app can also identify the best shots among similar photos and group images into categories such as people, food, selfies, and more.

As a bonus, Hyper Cleaner offers video compression, a password-protected Secret Space, an ad blocker, contact management tools, and a battery widget. Its full feature set requires a paid subscription, but some subscription options include a 3-day free trial, so you can try the app before paying.

Personal Experience: During our tests, Hyper Cleaner did a good job detecting duplicates and similar images, and its automatic Best Shot selections made it faster to work through groups without comparing every photo from scratch.

We also liked the streak system for daily cleanup. It’s a small addition, but it works surprisingly well with the whole Memories concept. Instead of treating photo cleanup as one huge job, the app encourages you to spend a couple of minutes on it every day and keep your streak going. It makes Hyper Cleaner feel a little different from cleaners you only open when your storage is already full.

App Store User Opinion: Hyper Cleaner currently has a 4.6-star rating from around 8,300 ratings on the App Store. Positive reviews praise how easy it is to review photos and videos before deleting them, with users also appreciating that they can actually watch videos while deciding what to keep.

The more critical reviews frequently focus on the paid subscription and trial. Some users expected to be able to complete more of the cleanup for free before reaching the paywall, so it’s worth checking the subscription terms when starting the trial.

Overall, Hyper Cleaner is a capable photo cleaner, but its Memories feature and daily cleanup approach are what make it stand out most from the other apps on our list.

App Store page: Link

• Seller: Gismart Limited
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.0 or later
• Size: 149.1 MB
• Price: Free trial; $3.99–$7.99 (weekly), $29.99 (yearly subscriptions available)

Side-by-Side Comparison of the Top iPhone Duplicate Photo Cleaners

To help you choose the best app to delete duplicate photos, we compiled the most important details about each option in this table. As you can see, there aren’t many truly free duplicate photo cleaners for iPhone. But most apps here offer a trial period, so you can test their features before committing. We’ve also included some apps that aren’t specifically designed for duplicate photo removal but have features that make organizing your photos or manually deleting duplicates much easier.

We think you’ll find something here that’s just the right fit for your iPhone—whether you’re looking for a one-time solution to clear up your cluttered storage or an app to use regularly to keep your iPhone organized.

Why Use a Duplicate Photo Cleaner When iPhone Already Has One?

Since iOS 16, Apple has included its own Duplicates feature in the Photos app, so you might reasonably wonder why you’d need another app at all. And if your only goal is to remove exact duplicates that your iPhone has already detected, you probably don’t.

The main limitation is that Apple’s tool decides what counts as a duplicate. It can identify identical copies and certain photos or videos that contain the same content but have different metadata, resolutions, or file formats. What it doesn’t give you is much control over that detection.

A third-party iPhone duplicate photo remover can go further by looking for similar, not just duplicate, photos.. Think of five selfies taken seconds apart, several shots of the same scene with slightly different angles, or multiple photos where only someone’s expression has changed. These can take up just as much unnecessary space, but they aren’t necessarily duplicates as far as Photos is concerned.

Apps on our list also add features Apple’s Duplicates tool doesn’t offer. Depending on the app, you can sort files by size or date, automatically pick the best shot from a group, clean up large videos and screenshots, compress media, or use custom similarity settings.

So, Apple’s built-in tool is a good place to start if you just want basic duplicate cleanup. A duplicate photo cleaner for iPhone makes more sense when you want to find similar photos as well, have more control over what gets selected, or clean up other storage hogs at the same time.

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