9 Best Apps to Delete Duplicate Photos on iPhone

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 were created equal. Good news: you have a lot of options. Bad news: you have a LOT of options.

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 9, 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 9 Apps to Delete Duplicate Photos on iPhone

Based on the criteria above, here are our 9 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. 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.

The app is super straightforward; all features are easily accessible and clearly labeled. And the app has many features that make duplicate photo deletion much more convenient.

Remo neatly 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.

Remo is a great choice if you want to use a free app to clean duplicate photos; it has useful features that complement its main function, it offers a decent user experience, and it’s available for all mainstream platforms.

• Seller: Remo Software Private Limited
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 9.0 or later
• Size: 8.2 MB
• Price: Free

2. Cleaner for iPhone

Unlike the last entry, Cleaner for iPhone is not just an app to remove duplicate photos, it’s an all-in-one cleaner with useful tools for managing photos, videos, and contacts. It has a lot more features than standalone duplicate cleaners, which makes it an attractive choice for users who want just one tool to manage everything. And while it’s a paid app, its short free trial unlocks all of its features.

Cleaner for iPhone has excellent core features, such as categories for different types of media (e.g. live photos), scanning files by time period, and organizing videos by file size to help you get rid of the biggest storage hog quickly.

We particularly liked its “Secret Space” feature, which securely hides sensitive photos behind a password-protected section. This thoughtful addition adds a layer of privacy.

Its duplicate contacts cleaner is also useful for cleaning up your contacts, but there are cases where it struggles to identify contacts with no names even if they have complete business information (which can lead to unwanted merges).

In summary, Cleaner for iPhone is a good option if you’re willing to pay and you want a more well-rounded tool.

• Seller: AppLavia LLC
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 13.0 or later
• Size: 94.1 MB
• Price: Free trial; $2.99 ~ $49.99 (weekly, monthly, annual, and lifetime subscriptions available)

3. 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 media files like photos and videos, as well as your contacts. It also has additional features we haven’t seen in this list, such as the ability to clear iPhone cache data and even compress photos and videos in your camera roll without losing quality.

Its core features are also pretty good; you can remove duplicates (photos, videos, and contacts) with one button (though we encourage you to review them carefully). You can also filter your camera roll by size so you can quickly get rid of the most significant storage hogs.

What we love most about this app is how fast it works—it scans and organizes your files in no time. That said, it sometimes misidentifies edited photos as duplicates, so take a moment to review your photos.

It’s a bit on the pricier side but the app offers a 3-day free trial.

• Seller: Kyle Allen
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 14.0 or later
• Size: 43 MB
• Price: Free trial; $2.99 ~ $39.99 (weekly and annual subscriptions available)

4. Boost Cleaner – Clean Up Smart

At number 4 we have Boost Cleaner – Clean Up Smart. Like most previous apps, it looks slick and tackles your iPhone’s photo clutter in a straightforward way. It can scan for duplicate or similar images (like selfies, live photos, and GIFs), and then lets you decide what to do with them.

Plus, you can filter pictures by date or location, so sorting through your photo library is a breeze. The built-in free storage cleaner finds other unwanted or oversized files, and there’s also a handy contact cleanup feature that merges or removes duplicates.

Boost Cleaner – Clean Up Smart looks and performs well, as evidenced by its 4.5-star rating (64.7K ratings) on the App Store. It’s not the cheapest option on our list, though, and we wish its trial was a bit more generous. But overall, it remains a solid duplicate photo cleaner option for iPhone.

• Seller: Whistle Studios LLC
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 14.0 or later
• Size: 161 MB
• Price: Free trial; $5.99 ~ $49.99 (weekly and annual subscriptions available)

5. Duplicate Photos Fixer

Duplicate Photos Fixer has got a lot of cool features we haven’t seen from other entries. It only cleans up duplicate photos but provides many tools to make that task easier. Our favorite feature is the custom scan settings, which allows you to set specific criteria for the scan.

You can set bitmap size (e.g. 100×100 pixels), matching level (how similar to the original), date range, and even location range by meters – you can also combine these parameters for a super-targeted scan.

Its user experience could be better as there are some intuitive functions missing. Previewing a duplicate can be annoying because they are displayed as thumbnails with a tiny preview button in the corner. You also can’t swipe through previews, so you’ll have to open the preview for individual photos every time.

However, Duplicate Photos Fixer is still a great free app whose pros outweigh its cons.

• Seller: Shrishail Rana
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 12.0 or later
• Size: 16.4 MB
• Price: $4.99

6. CleanMy®Phone: Storage Cleaner

CleanMy®Phone, developed by MacPaw (the team behind the popular CleanMyMac), claims to be an AI-powered iPhone cleaner, and while many apps like to invoke AI these days, it’s hard to say exactly where that gives it an edge over its competitors. What we can do, however, is take a closer look at its features and how it performs.

After trying it out, we didn’t find anything that would drastically position CleanMy®Phone: Storage Cleaner as the best app for duplicate photo cleaning compared to other apps on our list. AI or no AI, it does what it promises—helps declutter your photo library by finding duplicates, similar images, and unwanted files. It’s efficient and user-friendly, but not groundbreaking.

It does a good job with duplicate photos, organizing them into easy-to-review groups for quick cleanup. It even throws in a bonus feature—a network speed test—which is a nice addition. That said, we wish the trial lasted longer than just 3 days, but sadly short trials are pretty standard for apps like this. Overall, CleanMy®Phone delivers on what it promises.

• Seller: MacPaw Way Ltd
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.0 or later
• Size: 86.2 MB
• Price: Free trial; $2.99 ~ $39.99 (monthly, annual, and unlimited subscriptions available)

7. 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).

It has a great-looking interface and the user experience to match. But if you strictly want an app to get rid of duplicate photos quickly, the first few recommendations on this list will serve you much better.

• Seller: Slidebox LLC
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 11.0 or later
• Size: 48.2 MB
• Price: $4.99 ~ $49.99 (monthly, annual subscriptions available; one-time purchase)

8. Duplicate Cleaner App

Duplicate Cleaner App is primarily a contact management app that happens to have a duplicate photo cleaner. In terms of just contact management, this app provides good features.

Like most similar apps, it can bulk delete entries for you and detect duplicate contacts so you can easily eliminate them. It can also merge duplicate contacts, and we like that you can choose which parameters (e.g. First Name, Last Name, Organization) it uses as filters.

Normally, using these tools poses some risk – especially if you’re not paying attention. But thanks to the app’s backup tool, you can save a backup of your contacts before deleting and merging any entries (then delete the backup if your cleanup was a success). Duplicate Cleaner App can back up your contacts locally or to iCloud at certain intervals, which is a nice touch.

Its duplicate photo cleaner is a bit less impressive but works nonetheless. It can detect and conveniently display duplicate photos and provides intuitive controls so you can “sneak peek” photos individually whilst in the process of marketing duplicates for deletion.

Overall, Duplicate Cleaner App is a great choice for contact management. Its duplicate photo cleaner is “okay”, but there are better options on this list for that use case.

• Seller: Softices Consultancy Private Limited
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later
• Size: 34 MB
• Price: Free

9. Flic

And last on our list is Flic, a photo manager app that, as you might guess from its name, allows you to remove duplicate photos on your iPhone for free by simply “flicing.”; as you go through your photos, you can swipe right to keep the photo on display or swipe left to delete it.

Whenever you delete photos, you can see in real-time how much memory is getting freed up. It also provides a trash folder, so you can easily review multiple deleted photos in one go instead of having to confirm every time you delete an individual picture. Flic’s Pro version has even more cool features, such as a favorites folder and timeline review.

However, Flic wasn’t designed specifically for clearing duplicates – so don’t expect specialized tools like custom similarity levels or grouped duplicates. And it’s not 100% free either; you can only “flic” a limited number of photos unless you upgrade.

• Seller: Lifehack Labs, LLC
• Compatibility: Requires iOS 10.0 or later
• Size: 33 MB
• Price: Free; $4.99 for Premium upgrade

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.

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