If you need a quick and easy way to clean your iPhone, using an iPhone cleaner is your best choice – especially if you haven’t reset or upgraded your device in a while. However, there are many iPhone cleaners on the App Store… Which one do you choose?
In this article, we’ll recommend our top 8 best iPhone cleaner apps for 2025 along with useful sections about how we chose them.
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How Do iPhone Cleaner Apps Work?
iPhone cleaners are apps that erase unnecessary data on your device in an attempt to free up storage and in some cases speed up your phone. Some apps specialize in one type of cleaning (for ex. duplicate photos) while others offer general cleaning tools. Here are some of the common features you can expect:
- Storage management. Scans your iPhone for large files, files you haven’t interacted with in a long time, and other files with certain “clutter-like” attributes based on how the app is designed.
- Camera roll cleaners. Apps that either provide one or multiple cleanup features for your photos and videos. For example, some apps can only scan your camera roll for duplicates. Others can find duplicates, large-sized photos and videos, Live photos, Burst Mode photos, etc.
- Anti-spambots. Useful automated programs that scan your inbox for newsletters and help you unsubscribe to them conveniently and even by bulk. Aside from cluttering your mail, enough spam can take up a LOT of storage space, considering the size of attachments, banners, and other in-mail elements.
- Contacts management. Identifies duplicate and incomplete contacts and provides an interface to easily merge their data (or delete them).
How to Choose the Best Cleaner for iPhone
Most storage cleaners on the App Store look like they do the exact same things. However, the experience (and most importantly, the results) between a good cleaner and a poorly developed app can be vast.
Don’t settle for less than the best for your use case. Here are the traits that we focused on while reviewing the apps for this list that you should also keep in mind if you want to hunt for solutions on your own:
- Features. Whether you need a precision duplicate photos remover or an all around declutterer, we made sure to include both specialized utilities and multi-tool cleaning suites.
- Price. We only chose apps that were either free or offered a legitimate free trial – it’s almost impossible to know if an app will work on your data until you test its scanning capabilities yourself. For example, some apps can identify similar photos with edits while others can’t.
- Usability. All included apps either have a modern and sleek interface or at least a minimalist and beginner-friendly one. We didn’t include apps that were slow, difficult to use, and had too many ads.
Top 8 Best Cleaner Apps for Your iPhone
We rounded up the 8 best cleaner apps for your iPhone for this list – all of them have thousands of 5-star and 4-star reviews on the App Store (for good reason). With each app, we included a breakdown of our rubric accompanied by a short summary so you have all the info you need to choose the best app for you.
1. Clever Cleaner: AI CleanUp App
Clever Cleaner app for iPhone is a completely free camera roll cleaning app developed by Cleverfiles. It can automatically find similar and duplicate photos on your device that even iOS can’t. The app also compiles all your screenshots, Live photos, and the largest files on your camera roll so you can easily review and delete them.
Aside from its clutter detection and management tools, Clever Cleaner also has a feature called Swipe Mode. It’s a library cleanup feature that allows you to review your photos in a slideshow and use swipe gestures to take action (left to delete, right to keep). This allows you to go through your library photos one by one, while still being much faster than tapping multiple buttons in the native Photos app.
This app is #1 for us because (1) Clever Cleaner is the only app on this list that lets you use it without any limitations, sketchy free trials, or bothersome ads. (2) It covers its scope appropriately — instead of having a dozen unrelated features to justify a price tag, it does its one job (cleaning up your camera roll) very well. (3) Finally, in our opinion, it has the best interface, hands down. It’s easy on the eyes, VERY simple to use, and the devs added as much info as they could without making it cluttered.
Main Features
- Beautiful interface. Enjoy an ad-free, efficient, and visually pleasing interface. It even displays useful stats like the amount of storage consumed by clutter, how many files you’ve already cleared, and more.
- Smart duplicate cleanup. Eliminate all duplicates without having to tap on each photo or group of duplicates. Don’t worry – you can restore photos you want back from Recently Deleted.
- Swipe mode. Review your photo library as a slideshow and use swipe gestures to save or delete each image. In this mode, photos are automatically compiled by month for easier management.
- Gallery cleaner. Aside from duplicates, clean up Live photos, and screenshots, and easily find and delete the largest files in your camera roll.
System Requirements:
- iOS 16.0 or later
Pricing:
- Free (no limits, no ads)
- Completely free with no limitations and annoying ads
- Covers a solid scope of camera roll cleaning capabilities
- Can identify similar images that iOS can’t
- Beautiful and easy-to-use interface
- Gallery cleaner only
2. Clean Up Storage – Cleaner Kit
Clean Up Storage – Cleaner Kit is an extremely popular (270k+ ratings) all-in-one iPhone cleaner. It can help you eliminate clutter related to your photos, videos, email, contacts, and calendar.
Cleaner Kit gives you a wide variety of tools at your disposal, and each utility is packed with functionality. To start with, its library cleaner can detect several types of clutter, such as similar photos and blurred images. For certain tools, AI is used to help auto-organize photos into contextual albums—for others, convenient sorting and filtering features are always present.
Video cleanup is also made easier thanks to sorting and filters, and you also have the ability to compress videos you just can’t get rid of. There are still a lot of features to cover, so keep reading for the detailed breakdown. And despite having so many features, Cleaner Kit does a fairly good job of keeping its interface streamlined and accessible (especially compared to similar apps).
Main Features:
- Intelligent photo library cleaner. View all your library clutter in one place—Cleaner Kit automatically compiles similar photos, screenshots, blurred images, and pictures with text.
- Swipe mode with AI sorting. Go through your library photos one by one and use left and right swipe gestures to archive or keep them. Photos are intelligently pre-organized into helpful albums.
- Video cleaner & compressor. Eliminate similar videos and compress large ones. Videos are automatically sorted by size for both tools.
- Email cleaner. Review all your mail subscriptions, unsubscribe from unwanted senders, and delete old newsletters, sales messages, and event promotions with a super convenient interface.
- Contact management. Merge your contacts as well as their metadata, while eliminating any duplicate or empty entries.
- Calendar cleaner. Automatically find and delete old events without having to scroll through your calendar yourself.
- Extra features. Utilize Cleaner Kit’s additional features, including battery charging animations, an ad blocker, system information widgets, a password-protected album and contacts list, and device security monitors.
System Requirements:
- iOS 13.0 or later
Pricing:
- Weekly subscription: $4.99
- Lifetime subscription: $34.99
- Free 7-day trial
- The free trial is 7 days long, which is pretty generous compared to others (which often only offer 3 days)
- Cleaner Kit’s library tools always include sorting and filtering features, which make it easy to narrow down a search
- The app’s UI and UX are actually great compared to other all-in-one suites. Its tools are easy to use, and the various menus don’t feel cluttered
- You can customize the compression level for your videos
- Extra features aren’t relevant to cleaning/optimizing an iPhone
- The weekly and lifetime subscriptions are both expensive considering its features
- The free trial locks you into a subscription (you’ll need to cancel it at least 24 hours before the end date if you don’t want to purchase it)
3. CleanMy®Phone: Storage Cleaner
CleanMy®Phone is an intelligent photo library cleaner with a set of features that provides both wide and deep coverage—especially if you have a large variety of photos in your gallery.
Without going too in-depth, photo decluttering CleanMy®Phone is extremely efficient. It automatically compiles your duplicates, blurries, large videos, and other clutter into albums you can review. The app also utilizes AI to generate more albums based on the context of the photos. From any of these in-app albums, you can mass delete junk or save important media to other albums. You can even enhance and favorite photos.
Aside from photo decluttering, CleanMy®Phone has many other solid cleanup or space-saving features, like a video compressor and a feature that turns Live photos into still images. We’ll cover them in more depth in the breakdown below.
Overall, CleanMy®Phone is a great choice if you mainly need a library cleaner and you take a lot of Live photos in different settings (e.g., at home, during work or school, while on vacation, etc.).
Main Features:
- Library declutter tool. Review various types of clutter in your library, including duplicates, blurred shots, large videos, screenshots, and screen recordings.
- Turn Live to Still. Turn your Live photos into still images! You lose the video clip but keep the actual photo (which takes up way less space as a whole).
- Video compressor. Select up to 5 videos at a time (from your library) for simultaneous video compression to quickly free up space on your device.
- AI categories. Browse your photo library through CleanMy®Phone’s AI-generated albums. It divides up your media by subject or context (e.g., People, Pets, Travel, Food, etc.).
- Media organizer. Organize your library from almost anywhere in the tap—the Enhance, Add to Album, and Favorite buttons are present in each of the app’s declutter tools.
- Health Monitor. Monitor your device’s performance status and storage usage. CleanMy®Phone’s AI categories also show up here.
System Requirements:
- iOS 13.0 or later
Pricing:
- Monthly subscription: $4.99
- Annual subscription: $19.99
- Lifetime subscription: $34.99
- Free 3-day trial
- The ever-present album organizer buttons are a simple feature that makes the app a lot more productive.
- CleanMy®Phone’s decluttering tool provides comprehensive coverage
- For certain users, the ability to compress multiple videos at once could be a game-changer.
- The AI categories are actually helpful for improving cleanup productivity.
- You can’t specify video compression levels.
- It’s less likely to identify similar photos compared to other apps, which have lighter tolerance levels for variations.
- The app only helps manage your photo library, but has several extra features like Speed Test and Update Detection. We would have preferred an address book cleaner or email manager instead.
- The placement of tools can be a bit confusing (e.g., the “Compress Video” tool is in the “Stuff to organize” menu).
4. Cleaner for iPhone
Cleaner for iPhone by Cleaner LLC is the penultimate “all-around cleaner.” It works for the whole trifecta: photos, contacts, and local storage, which is useful if you have clutter across different data types (e.g. photos, documents, attachments, etc.).
Aside from scanning the device for clutter, we also found it useful for monitoring consumption over time. It provides a bird’s eye view of the device’s storage, allowing you to analyze which of your data takes up the most space so you can optimize strategically.
Overall, what we liked about this app is that it provides all-around cleaning while not adding unnecessary features; this makes the app powerful but tight in scope (which we always appreciate).
Main Features:
- Fast Clean. Total cleanup takes a few taps — it’s one of the best apps in terms of minimizing the steps you need to strategically get rid of clutter.
- Storage analysis. Total cleanup takes a few taps — it’s one of the best apps in terms of minimizing the steps you need to strategically get rid of clutter.
- Media library cleaner. Browse your media items by file size (so you can get rid of the biggest storage hogs first) or you can scan for duplicate photos and flawed images.
- Contacts management. Review all your contacts that have duplicate or missing data and merge them into one complete contact entry.
System Requirements:
- iOS 13.0 or later
Pricing:
- Monthly subscription: $2.99
- Lifetime subscription: $9.99
- Free 3-day trial
- 3-day free trial with unlimited access to all of the app’s features
- Affordable prices for both monthly and lifetime subscriptions
- Nice GUI (graphical user interface)
- No general storage management
5. Cleanup: Clean Storage Space
Cleanup: Clean Storage Space is another popular iPhone cleaner app, this time focusing solely on cleaning up the gallery. The app’s developer provides intuitive tools that allow users to quickly go through their photos and videos and decide what to keep.
The app also has two unique cleanup features for camera roll cleanup. First, its AI automatically selects clutter for you — you use swipe gestures to decide whether you want to save or delete. Second, it has a media compression tool, which can shrink a photo or video’s file size without affecting quality (much).
Overall, Cleanup: Clean Storage Space felt like a very comprehensive decluttering kit — I can see super heavy users maximizing its features. But ironically, the app itself feels cluttered and unnecessary extra features like charging animations and the secret library actually weaken it in our opinion. We would have preferred general storage management or review capabilities.
Main Features:
- All-around cleanup. Declutter your camera roll, email inbox, and contacts within one app.
- AI + swipe gestures. Utilize AI to automatically find photos and videos that might potentially be clutter (e.g. duplicates, blurred photos, etc.) and swipe left or right to take action on them immediately.
- Compression tool. Reclaim up to gigabytes of storage space without deleting anything by compressing videos. You can choose the ratio of compression to quality (Low, Medium, High).
System Requirements:
- iOS 12.0 or later
Pricing:
- Weekly subscription: $3.99
- Lifetime subscription: $39.99
- Free 3-day trial
- The app’s gallery cleaning tool is well-designed (especially compared to general cleaners)
- Because it only focuses on one type of data, the user experience is simpler
- 3-day free trial with unlimited gallery cleaning (for a limited time)
- Only works for photos and videos
- Its lifetime license is expensive considering the app’s features
- Weekly subscription is more expensive that other apps’ monthly subscription
6. Easy Cleaner
Easy Cleaner is a completely free advanced contacts cleanup and management app. It can help you merge duplicate and redundant contacts (resulting in a single complete entry), as well as ensure that your current contact list is complete and up-to-date.
It creates a global database of your contact data, which is used as a reference to keep your address book always updated. The idea is that this app accompanies you throughout different devices or every time you format your iPhone, replacing the Contacts app entirely.
Two quality-of-life features make it an excellent tool. First, you can set Restore Points to ensure any deleted data isn’t permanently lost (which we strongly recommend, especially for contacts). Second, it provides a lot of filters that make it easy to instantly find the contact you need.
Main Features:
- Powerful merge and cleanup tool. Combine not only simple contact entries, but also their data (e.g. Company Name, Work Email, etc.). This in turn results in the elimination of most incomplete contact entries — except for those with no other existing data.
- Contact database. Keep your contacts always up-to-date — Easy Cleaner utilizes a global database that stores rich information about each contact. This ensures that no matter what happens to your device, you always have access to the most complete and updated version of your data.
System Requirements:
- iOS 12.0 or later
Pricing:
- Free
- Free
- Can actually combine contact entries, rather than just delete duplicates
- Comes with a backup feature, which is a perfect failsafe in case important contacts are lost
- The tool is only good for managing contacts
7. Boost Cleaner
Boost Cleaner is another all-in-one iPhone cleanup tool with multiple features that provide relatively good coverage of the various types of user data on your device. Specifically, it helps you clean up your photos, videos, contacts, and even your calendar.
It can eliminate or downsize library clutter through similar photo and large media detection, as well as compression tools. Boost Cleaner can also help you with basic management of your contacts and calendar entries.
Overall, we feel like Boost Cleaner is a solid all-in-one entry for users who constantly fill up their storage space with library media. It doesn’t have a free version, though, so keep reading and make sure it has the specific features you need so you don’t waste the free trial while still learning about the app.
Main Features:
- Similar photo cleaner. Eliminate all similar photos from your library conveniently across your Live photos, screenshots, and selfies.
- Similar and large video cleaner. Clean up similar videos and videos with the largest file sizes (which are organized for you from the largest file size to the smallest).
- Multimedia compression tool. Compress your photos and videos! This process can shrink the file size of a photo or video (by removing certain bits of data) without a noticeable sacrifice in quality. You can even choose the level of compression from several options.
- RAM cleaner. Clear your RAM with one button that automatically closes all background apps and processes.
- Contacts manager. Tidy up your address book by merging duplicate contacts and deleting entries with missing information. We recommend backing up your contacts first, though.
- Calendar cleaner. Delete all past events from your device’s calendar with a few taps.
- Extra features. Utilize Boost Cleaner’s internet speed test, battery animations, and PIN-protected vault (which contains a secret photo album, a secret contacts list, and a private browser).
System Requirements:
- iOS 12.0 or later
Pricing:
- Monthly subscription: $9.99
- Annual subscription: $29.99
- Free 3-day trial
- The free trial provides unlimited access to the app’s features
- Similar photos are grouped together by category, making cleanup much more convenient
- You can choose the level of compression you want for your media
- No lifetime subscription
- Very short free trial with subscription lock-in
- The extra features don’t really add much value beyond the vault
- The app’s features are basic considering its subscription price (we would prefer that the extra features be replaced with an album organizer or Live photo trimmer)
8. Slidebox Photo Manager
Slidebox Photo Manager is a popular camera roll organizer, known for its slide gestures and tap actions.. It’s last on our list because its functionality is somewhat limited compared to the rest, but it does its job well.
In a nutshell, Slidebox presents your camera roll photos to you one by one, letting you use swipe gestures to browse, delete, and favorite, as well as tap actions to sort them into albums situated at the bottom of the screen.
Main Features:
- Beautiful interface. Clean up your photos without burning your eyes with an elegant dark interface that utilizes sleek fonts and minimalist design.
- Intuitive swipe and tap. Swipe gestures and tap actions are very snappy with zero lag, even if you’ve been using the app for a long time (in other words, the app is well-designed with minimal energy leaks).
System Requirements:
- iOS 10.0 or later
Pricing:
- Monthly subscription: $4.99
- Annual subscription $49.99
- Works with older versions of iOS
- Highly intuitive user experience
- Ability to undo last action
- No free trials for the premium subscriptions
- No lifetime subscription
So, Have You Decided?
We hope that our guide helped you make an informed decision. Before you start cleaning up your iPhone, we just want to reiterate that you should back up your files just in case — if something goes wrong, third-party apps will not be held liable for any permanently lost data.
And make sure that you read the free trial terms VERY carefully. Most iPhone cleaning apps only provide a 3-day free trial and they usually say it with a tiny font. Good luck!
