8 Best iPhone Cleaner Apps for a Digital Spring Cleaning

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.

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.

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.
• 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)

2. 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. 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

4. 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

5. Boost Cleaner

Our next entry is also a cleanup suite — Boost Cleaner provides solid, comprehensive tools for photos, contacts, and general storage. The camera roll management tool helps you clean up your photos and videos from several different angles. It can find duplicates, identify similar files among selfies, Live photos, and gifs.

Contact management is simpler, providing basic merge and multiple deletion functions. However, we really appreciated the ability to back up and restore entries, which is *critical* for contacts because they don’t have a “Trash” or “Recently Deleted” folder.

Its general storage component is also basic but still quite effective for most users, letting you filter files by size or auto-clean them. Overall, we found it good for users with a lot of general clutter, but more precision will be needed for a total clean.

Main Features:

• Photo management. Quickly identify duplicate and similar photos or filter photos by date and location if you have an idea of when the duplicates were likely to have been created.
• Contact organizer. Merge similar contacts based on name, phone, and email while clearing out any incomplete entries. You can also backup and restore contacts in case anything important was deleted.
• General storage cleaner. Easily find and delete large files or use the one-tap clean function to delete clutter efficiently (after confirming the selection).

System Requirements:

• iOS 12.0 or later

Pricing:

• Monthly subscription: $9.99
• Annual subscription: $29.99
• Free 3-day trial

6. Smart Cleaner

Smart Cleaner is a very comprehensive iOS storage management and cleaning kit — perhaps a bit too comprehensive in some areas, in fact. However, we included it in the list because its wide scope gives it unique cleaning advantages that we’ll cover in brief.

Its camera roll cleaner has the features you already know, such as swipe gestures, video compression, and the ability to find and delete duplicate and similar photos, as well as screenshots. But it can also intelligently analyze blurry and low-quality shots, including doc images.

The contact management function is basic, providing merge and multi-delete features. It does have another unique (for this list) feature, the calendar cleaner. It’s also quite basic, simply deleting outdated events for you. Overall, Smart Cleaner is a solid entry but its extra features (covered) below actually hurt it more than help it.

Main Features:

• Intelligent photo cleaner. Let Smart Cleaner automatically analyze your camera roll for duplicate, blurry, and other potential clutter for easy bulk deletion.
• Swipe gestures. Use swipe gestures to sort, favorite, or archive photos for later review.
• Video compression. Compress videos right within the app based on how much quality loss you’re willing to tolerate.
• 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. We’re not fans, but Smart Cleaner’s additional features include hidden photos and contacts, a charging animation, wi-fi security, device stats, and even an ad blocker.

System Requirements:

• iOS 13.0 or later

Pricing:

• Weekly subscription: $4.99
• Lifetime subscription: $34.99
• Free 3-day trial

7. CleanMy®Phone

CleanMy®Phone is an intelligent camera roll management and cleanup app developed by the well-known iOS and macOS dev team, MacPaw.

Formerly Gemini, CleanMy®Phone primarily cleans photo clutter (including iCloud photos). While lean in features overall, it leverages AI to make the process much more efficient – CleanMy®Phone can automatically organize, favorite, and delete photos based on its preliminary analysis. And even if you opt for bulk action on your photos, it utilizes the native Photos app’s Recently Deleted album, so nothing is permanently lost.

The app’s network testing and hidden album feature can be useful but not super relevant for our purposes. We’d have preferred another storage or cleanup-related feature.

Main Features:

• Comprehensive photo cleanup. Automatically find and delete duplicate and similar photos, blurry images, and screenshots, as well as pictures downloaded from social media apps. You can also mark photos as “Sensitive” to protect them from accidental deletion.
• AI camera roll organizer. Let AI analyze your camera roll and iCloud Photos, and automatically organize them for you. The app will also intelligently suggest the best and worst photos to help you declutter faster.
• Extra features. Check the speed of your network connection and hide sensitive photos.

System Requirements:

• iOS 13.0 or later

Pricing:

• Monthly subscription: $4.99
• Annual subscription: $19.99
• Lifetime subscription: $34.99
• Free 3-day trial

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

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!

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