Clear Cleaner vs Cleanup
Disclosure: we make Clear Cleaner. Facts come from both apps’ US App Store pages, checked on .
Choose Cleanup if you want the biggest feature set, including email cleanup, and don’t mind weekly pricing. Choose Clear Cleaner if you want a lighter app with yearly and monthly plans, contacts and calendar cleanup, and a “Data Not Collected” privacy label.
| Criterion | Clear CleanerCheese Quake LLC | CleanupCodeway (seller: Deep Flow Software Services – FZCO) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Weekly $2.99, monthly $6.99, yearly $19.99 | Weekly plans from $5.95 to $11.99 (several price points listed) |
| Free trial | 3-day free trial | 7-day free trial (per description) |
| What’s free | Scan, review and delete for free, with ads; video compression is free | Free download; full access with a subscription |
| App Store privacy label | Data Not Collected | Data used to track you: purchases, identifiers, usage data |
| Rating (US) | 4.7 ★ · 29 ratings | 4.7 ★ · 741K ratings |
| Download size | 51 MB | 119.8 MB |
| Requires | iOS 15.0+ | iOS 15.0+ |
| Features (from each App Store description) | ||
| Duplicate & similar photos | Yes | Yes |
| “Best shot” suggestion | Yes | Yes |
| Large / similar videos | Yes | Partly |
| Video compression | Yes | Yes |
| Merge duplicate contacts | Yes | Yes |
| Old calendar events | Yes | No |
| Private / secret folder | Yes | Yes |
| Email cleanup | No | Yes |
| Swipe-to-review mode | No | No |
About Cleanup: Phone Storage Cleaner
Cleanup is the most popular cleaner on the App Store, with hundreds of thousands of ratings. It finds duplicates and similar photos with a “Best” mark, compresses videos, merges contacts, cleans promo and spam email, and hides private photos in a PIN-protected space. See it on the App Store.
About Clear Cleaner
Clear Cleaner covers the same core — similar photos with a suggested best shot, videos, batch compression, contacts, a Face ID–protected Private Folder — plus old calendar events. It doesn’t clean email. All features · Pricing.
Privacy labels
Cleanup: Data used to track you: purchases, identifiers, usage data. Clear Cleaner: “Data Not Collected”. Labels are declared by developers and aren’t verified by Apple.
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Try Clear Cleaner
Clear Cleaner finds duplicates, similar shots and heavy videos across your iPhone and compresses the videos you keep. Nothing is deleted until you confirm.