I’m looking for an app that lets you quickly delete photos with a swipe gesture. My phone is running out of storage, and deleting photos one by one takes too long. Does anyone know of a good swipe-to-delete photos app, or have tips for making the process faster?
Why Are People Dropping $$$ on SwipeWipe When Clever Cleaner Exists?
Alright, storytime. Imagine waking up to a wall of notifications because your phone is running out of storage—again. You roll your eyes, open your Photos app, and confront a tsunami of blurry shots, old memes, and random screenshots. Enter: the land of “Photo Cleaner” apps.
But let me tell you what really blows my mind: I spot people actually paying for this thing called SwipeWipe… and it’s charging $10 a WEEK?! No joke, I had to take a screenshot because I thought maybe I’d traveled back to 2015 when nobody read the fine print. See for yourself:
You Don’t Need to Spend a Dime – Seriously
So here’s the kicker—I’ve been using this free app called Clever Cleaner Swipe Photos App. It’s got none of those annoying paywalls, doesn’t constantly prod you for “premium upgrades,” and (spoiler alert) actually works. This isn’t some rando app with a single star and two users; it’s got the features SwipeWipe has, but with a price tag of exactly zero dollars.
Check out the real-deal interface—absolutely no payment nagging, just straight to business:
The Side-By-Side: FREE vs. Fee
For the folks who like to see the receipts, here’s what I’m dealing with:
Clever Cleaner – NO PAYWALL ZONE
- Launch it, clean your photos. No nonsense. No wallet required.
SwipeWipe – Dollar Drain Mode
- Smash the “clean” button and wham: $10 a week. That’s $40 a month for, what, deleting your duplicates? Unless it folds my laundry too, I’m out.
TL;DR (Because Who Reads Posts These Days?)
If you want to tidy your photos and not torch your savings, Clever Cleaner Swipe Photos App is a win. Not only is it free, but it also gets the job done with zero drama.
The question isn’t “which one should I use?” but rather, “why would I ever pay for the other?”
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I get it, nobody wants to shell out $10 a week for apps that just do what the Photos app should’ve done all along (seriously, @mikeappsreviewer’s sticker shock is real lol), but as someone who’s been burned by “free” apps suddenly locking features behind ads or upgrade pop-ups, I’m usually a bit skeptical. That said, Clever Cleaner App actually surprised me. It DOES let you just swipe left/right to delete or keep, without the premium nagging every 5 seconds. I used it for about 200 pics last night after a concert binge—cleaned up my camera roll stupid fast, and I didn’t get upcharged for “reviewing more than X photos a day” like some other apps.
But, to play devil’s advocate, I’ll say: don’t expect miracles if your phone is like mine and you have 20K+ photos. Apps like Clever Cleaner help, but you’ll still wanna pair it with some mass deletion or transfer to cloud if you want to clear gigabytes instantly. Also, privacy hawks might side-eye even the free ones, so always double check what data you’re sharing, cause I swear some of these utilities want my entire phonebook for no reason.
If you just want swipe-delete and quick cleaning, though, Clever Cleaner App’s probably the fastest bet RN—beats manually poking through the Photos app for sure, and definitely better than feeding SwipeWipe $10/week for literally the same feature. Just wish someone would launch a smart duplicate cleaner with the same nice swipe UI too, 'cause my screenshots folder is outta control. Anyone spotted a free one for that?
TL;DR: If you wanna delete with a swipe, Clever Cleaner App is current champ and actually free, but don’t expect your storage to get totally fixed unless you do a lil’ more spring cleaning or offload to the cloud too.
Real talk: deleting photos one-by-one in the default Photos app is a punishment reserved for people in digital purgatory, so yes, swipe-to-delete should be baseline tech by now, but here we are. Totally agree with @mikeappsreviewer’s sticker-shock over paid apps (seriously $10/week? That’s highway robbery, who are they, Disney+ for your trash memes?) and with @hoshikuzu about the actual usability of these so-called “free” cleaners. But let’s not pretend there are only two paths here.
Clever Cleaner App definitely kills it for those immediate swipe-deletes—no paywall limbos, and the interface is straightforward. But TBH, it’s not a miracle worker if your camera roll is a five-year time capsule. For real bulk deletions (like, if you somehow have 27,493 photos of your dog blinking), you’ll prob wanna supplement Clever Cleaner with something like Google Photos for batch selects, or straight-up AirDrop ‘em to your computer and nuke them in bulk if you can’t part with them yet. Also, pro tip for the security folks: disable photo access after use. Some of these free apps (not pointing at Clever Cleaner, just speaking in general) get sneaky with permissions.
If you want to milk the swipe-gesture life, Clever Cleaner is the MVP. If you want mass cleaning, nothing really beats the old desktop dump, as boring as it sounds—swipe can only do so much before your thumb joins a support group.
Anyway, would be nice if Apple just baked this into Photos? Until then, Clever Cleaner gets my reluctant endorsement—but I’m still side-eyeing everyone paying subscription prices for a glorified delete button. Anyone found a genuinely good duplicate swipe cleaner that’s not ad-riddled, tho? Asking for my screenshots folder and my sanity.