SweeperX
Duplicate & Similar Photos
Exact copies and near-identical bursts, grouped with the sharpest frame already picked.
Your iPhone storage, cleaned once. Not rented monthly.
SweeperX finds duplicate photos, oversized videos and forgotten files, marks them, and shows you exactly what you’ll get back. Before it removes anything.
$12.99 once · no subscription · works offline
Your local price, tax included, is shown on the App Store.
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- Works in Airplane Mode every feature
- No account nothing to sign up for
- No subscription one payment, forever
- Nothing uploaded no networking code at all
“Storage Almost Full.” You delete a few apps. It’s back in a week. The photos are the problem, and there are more of them than you will ever sort by hand.
Eleven tools. Every one of them local.
Nothing here calls out. The whole roll is developed on the device it was shot on.
Swipe to Declutter
One photo at a time. Swipe to keep, swipe to stage. Nothing leaves until you confirm the batch.
Video Compression
Large videos re-encoded at full resolution. The original waits in review until you say so.
Photo Compression
HEIC re-encode at full pixel dimensions. Nothing cropped, nothing downscaled.
Large Files
Everything oversized across “On My iPhone”, found and sized.
Secret Space
AES-256 vault, unlocked with Face ID or a PIN. The key lives in your Keychain. We hold no copy.
Live Photo Conversion
Keep the still, drop the motion. Often two thirds of the file.
Contacts Cleaner
Merge duplicate contacts without losing a number.
Smart Albums
Screenshots, bursts and downloads, grouped for review.
Home Screen Widgets
Your remaining storage, on the Home Screen.
Lifetime Impact
Every megabyte you have reclaimed, totalled and kept.
Each tool has its own page, with what it measures, how it decides and where it stops. See all eleven.
Mark. Review. Then cut.
An editor marks the sheet in wax before anything touches a blade, because wax comes off. SweeperX works the same way.
Mark
SweeperX measures what is actually taking up space — duplicates, similar shots, big videos, forgotten files. Then it rings what it would remove.
Review
Every mark lands in a bin you open, scroll and confirm as a batch. Nothing is removed at the moment you tap it.
Cut
Confirmed photos go to Recently Deleted, where iOS holds them 30 days. Two undo steps before anything is permanent.
A contact print is made by contact. Nothing gets between.
The negative lies directly on the paper. No lens, no enlarger, nothing in the middle. SweeperX contains no networking code: no analytics, no crash reporting, no third-party SDKs, no server. There is nothing for your photos to be sent to, and nothing that could send them.
Test it yourself, in thirty seconds.
Put your iPhone in Airplane Mode and use SweeperX normally. Everything works, because it never needed a connection.
Then open Settings → Privacy & Security → App Privacy Report, which logs every domain an app contacts. Ours is on the right: one entry, Apple’s own StoreKit host, contacted once when the purchase went through. No analytics domain, no ad network, no server of ours, because there isn’t one.
A vault we cannot open.
AES-256, with the key in your iPhone’s Keychain and unlocked by Face ID or a PIN. We hold no copy and there is no recovery on our side.
Which means the honest warning: lose your PIN and your recovery key and the contents are gone for good. That is encryption working correctly rather than a fault, and the app makes you acknowledge it before setup completes.
A cleaner is a job that finishes. Pay for it once.
The going rate in this category is about $4.99 a week, for a task that ends. Printed at one frame per payment, five years looks like this.
Subscription cleaner
$4.99 a week, printed one frame per payment
260 exposures over five years · ~$1,297 · stops working the week you stop paying
SweeperX Pro
one frame, and the roll is finished
$12.99
1 exposure, ever · $12.99 · keeps working whether or not you ever open the App Store again
| Running total | Subscription | SweeperX |
|---|---|---|
| After 1 year | ~$259 | $12.99 |
| After 2 years | ~$519 | $12.99 |
| After 5 years | ~$1,297 | $12.99 |
| Stops working if you stop paying | Yes | No |
| Requires an account | Usually | No |
Try it first, free.
Reclaim your first 500 MB and store 5 items in the Secret Space without paying anything. No trial period, no card, no countdown — the free tier simply doesn’t expire.
What it costs where you are
One payment, tax included, in your App Store’s own currency. 175 storefronts, 45 distinct prices. Apple sets these and adjusts them with exchange rates and local tax, so treat the list as accurate to August 2026 and the App Store as final.
| Storefront | One-time price |
|---|---|
| United States & 80 more storefronts priced in US dollars | USD 12.99 |
| 28 further storefronts priced in US dollars | USD 14.99 |
| Euro storefronts (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland and 19 more) | EUR 14.99 |
| Australia | AUD 19.99 |
| Brazil | BRL 79.90 |
| Canada | CAD 17.99 |
| Chile | CLP 14,990 |
| China (mainland) | CNY 88.00 |
| Colombia | COP 59,900.00 |
| Czech Republic | CZK 349.00 |
| Denmark | DKK 99.00 |
| Egypt | EGP 699.99 |
| Hong Kong | HKD 98.00 |
| Hungary | HUF 5,990 |
| India | INR 1,299.00 |
| Indonesia | IDR 229,000 |
| Israel | ILS 49.90 |
| Japan | JPY 2,000 |
| Kazakhstan | KZT 7,990.00 |
| Malaysia | MYR 59.90 |
| Mexico | MXN 299.00 |
| Montenegro | EUR 11.99 |
| New Zealand | NZD 22.99 |
| Nigeria | NGN 19,900.00 |
| Norway | NOK 179.00 |
| Pakistan | PKR 3,500.00 |
| Peru | PEN 59.90 |
| Philippines | PHP 799.00 |
| Poland | PLN 59.99 |
| Qatar | QAR 49.99 |
| Romania | RON 69.99 |
| Russia | RUB 999.00 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAR 59.99 |
| Singapore | SGD 19.98 |
| South Africa | ZAR 249.99 |
| South Korea | KRW 22,000 |
| Sweden | SEK 179.00 |
| Switzerland | CHF 10.00 |
| Taiwan | TWD 390 |
| Tanzania | TZS 39,900.00 |
| Thailand | THB 499.00 |
| Türkiye | TRY 699.99 |
| United Arab Emirates | AED 49.99 |
| United Kingdom | GBP 12.99 |
| Vietnam | VND 399,000 |
The things people actually ask.
Does SweeperX upload my photos?
No. SweeperX contains no networking code at all — no analytics, no crash reporting, no third-party SDKs and no server. You can verify it: use the app in Airplane Mode, then check Settings → Privacy & Security → App Privacy Report. The only domain listed for SweeperX is Apple’s own StoreKit host, contacted when the one-time purchase goes through. There is no other destination, because there is nothing else for the app to talk to.
Is this a subscription?
No. SweeperX Pro is $12.99 once. There is no renewal, no expiry and no trial that converts. Your local price, tax included, is shown on the App Store.
What happens to photos I delete — can I get them back?
Yes, for 30 days. Nothing is removed when you tap it: selections are staged in a review bin you confirm, and confirmed items go to the Photos app’s Recently Deleted album, where iOS keeps them for 30 days. That is two undo steps before anything is permanent.
Files deleted from “On My iPhone” are the exception — the Files app has no Recently Deleted, so those go immediately, and the app says so at the point of confirmation.
Does it work with iCloud Photos?
Yes. Be aware that with iCloud Photos on, deleting a photo deletes it on every device signed in to your account — and it lands in Recently Deleted everywhere, so you still have the 30-day window.
If Optimise iPhone Storage is enabled, iOS may need to fetch a full-resolution original from your own iCloud account before it can be compressed or vaulted.
Does it need an internet connection?
No. Every feature except the one-time purchase works with the phone in Airplane Mode, because the app never needed a connection. The purchase itself goes through Apple’s App Store, which does.
What’s in the free version?
500 MB of lifetime reclaimed storage and 5 items in the Secret Space. It is not a trial — there is no countdown, no card required, and it does not expire.
What happens to my Secret Space if I lose my PIN?
Use your recovery key to unlock it and set a new PIN. If you lose both the PIN and the recovery key, the contents cannot be recovered by anyone, including us — there is no account, no server-side copy and no reset. That is encryption working correctly rather than a fault, and the app requires you to acknowledge it before setup completes.
Which iPhones does it support?
Any iPhone running iOS 17.0 or later.
Still stuck? Support covers the rest, and every email is answered by the person who wrote the app.
Get your storage back. Once.
$12.99, one payment, no account, no server. Every feature works with the phone in Airplane Mode — which is the only claim on this page you can check in thirty seconds.
$12.99 once · free up to 500 MB first