Feature comparison

Feature Cleanup My Phone CleanMyPhone Clever Cleaner Cleaner Guru LuminaClean
Duplicate & similar photos (AI)
Blurry / dark / screenshot detectionPartial
Video compression✓ Batch + 3 levelsLimited
HEIC → JPEG batch converter
Email cleaner — Gmail✓ OAuth
Email cleaner — iCloud / Outlook / Yahoo / AOL / IMAP✓ All
Read-frequency unsubscribe ("never opened")
AI Smart Albums (Pets, Food, Travel…)
Year-by-year cleanup mode
Contact cleaner — duplicate match
Contact cleaner — similar (fuzzy) match✓ New
Calendar cleaner
Private vault (Face ID-protected)
30-day Recovery Vault
Ad Blocker
Speed Test
Device Health Score
Live Activity / Dynamic Island progress
Lock Screen / StandBy widget
Siri / Shortcuts / Action Button
Apple Photos Clean Up integration
Fully on-device (no upload)
No account required
Free without ads3-day trial3-day trial✓ Forever7-day trial10 deletes/day free
Lifetime purchase available✓ $39.99✓ $99.99Free✓ $17.99
iPad universal app

Quick verdicts

Cleanup My Phone

Free trial · $4.99/wk · $9.99/mo · $29.99/yr · $39.99 lifetime

Strengths

  • Only iPhone cleaner with multi-provider Email Cleaner (Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo, AOL, IMAP)
  • Only one with Live Activity + Dynamic Island + Lock Screen widget
  • Only one with Siri / Shortcuts / Action Button support
  • Built-in HEIC ↔ JPEG batch converter
  • Broadest feature surface — 12+ tools in one app
  • 30-day Recovery Vault — every delete is reversible

Trade-offs

  • 3-day free trial, then subscription required for most features
  • iOS only (no Mac or Android)

CleanMyPhone (MacPaw)

$9.99/mo · $49.99/yr · $99.99 lifetime · 3-day trial

Strengths

  • UX Design Award winner — beautiful scan animation
  • Strong privacy story (Apple-notarized, offline)
  • New "Similar Contacts" fuzzy match shipped Q1 2026

Trade-offs

  • No email cleaner at all
  • No HEIC converter
  • Most expensive lifetime tier ($99.99)
  • Free tier is paywalled out of practically everything

Clever Cleaner

100% free, no ads

Strengths

  • Completely free, no ads, no subscription
  • On-device AI for duplicates / similar photos
  • Simple, fast UI

Trade-offs

  • Photos only — no email, vault, contact cleaner, ad blocker
  • No Live Activity / widgets / Shortcuts integration
  • Single developer, slower feature pace

Cleaner Guru

$7.99/wk · $39.99/yr · 7-day trial

Strengths

  • Solid photo + video cleanup
  • Secret folder with password
  • Battery / memory widget

Trade-offs

  • No email cleaner
  • No HEIC converter
  • Subscription is on the higher end weekly

LuminaClean

10 free deletes/day · $4.99/mo · $17.99 lifetime

Strengths

  • Smart Albums by content (Pets, Food, Travel)
  • Year-by-year cleanup mode
  • Cheapest lifetime tier in the category

Trade-offs

  • Photos only — no email, contact, or calendar cleaner
  • No vault or recovery features
  • "10 free deletes/day" can feel limiting

Cleanfox

100% free

Strengths

  • Best read-frequency unsubscribe UX in the email space
  • Three-action swipe for emails
  • Free across all providers

Trade-offs

  • Owned by NielsenIQ. Sells transactional data for market research — confirmed in their privacy policy.
  • Email only — no photo cleanup, vault, contacts
  • Reverse-action view has no sort order

Pick the right one for you

One app. Every cleanup tool. Privacy by default.

Cleanup My Phone bundles 12+ tools that competitors split across multiple apps — and ships features (multi-provider email, Live Activities, Siri shortcuts, HEIC converter) that no one else has.

Download Free on the App Store