Coming soon · iOS 18.6+

Swipe to clean
your camera roll.

The honest photo cleaner. One swipe per photo. $9.99 lifetime — or skip the limit on the App Store.

  • On-device only
  • No tracking
  • No weekly trap
Pocketsweep onboarding — swipe sample photo
Delete
Keep

Built with

SwiftUI Vision Foundation Models StoreKit 2 PhotoKit

How it works

Three steps. That's it.

01

Scan

Apple's Vision framework groups duplicates, look-alikes, and bursts — locally, in seconds.

02

Swipe

Left to delete. Right to keep. Reason chips tell you why each photo is in the pile.

03

Free space

Confirm once. iOS sends to Recently Deleted for 30 days. Watch the freed bytes add up.

Built right

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

Duplicate detection

Vision feature prints group near-identical frames — re-saved, edited, shared screenshots.

Look-alikes

Same-scene multiple takes get grouped together so you pick the keeper without losing it.

Burst best-pick

Sharpest frame surfaces; the rest queue for deletion. Sharpness scored on-device.

Screenshot triage

Foundation Models categorise receipts, memes, addresses, codes — all locally on device.

Large videos

Every clip over 100 MB. Preview, multi-select, reclaim a gigabyte in seconds.

Protected albums

Mark Wedding, Kids, ID docs off-limits. Pocketsweep never shows them — period.

The math

Why pay weekly forever?

Typical cleaner

$4.99/week

  • $259 a year
  • Cloud uploads
  • Analytics SDKs
  • Locked behind paywall

Pocketsweep

$9.99once

  • Lifetime — pay one time
  • On-device · zero servers
  • No analytics. No ads.
  • Try free first (10 deletes)

Pricing

One fair price.

Free tier

10 deletes

Lifetime. Try the swipe before paying.

  • No card, no trial, no nag
  • Same scanner, just capped
Best value

Lifetime

$9.99 once

One payment. All future updates.

  • Unlimited swipes & deletes
  • Family Sharing eligible
  • Pays for itself the first sweep

Monthly

$2.99 / mo

For people who hate one-time fees.

  • Cancel anytime
  • Pause whenever

Privacy

Privacy is the product.

On-device only

Vision feature prints, OCR text, similarity groups — all computed locally. Nothing leaves the phone.

No tracking

No Mixpanel, Amplitude, Firebase, Segment, Facebook SDK. No analytics. No ad networks. None.

No account

No login. No email. RevenueCat handles purchase state with an anonymous ID — not your Apple ID.

FAQ

Honest answers.

Does Pocketsweep upload my photos?

No. Every scan, feature print, OCR pass, and similarity comparison happens on the device. There is no server backend.

What happens when I "delete" a photo?

iOS shows its own confirmation, then moves the photo to Recently Deleted for 30 days. Pocketsweep never bypasses this. You can recover anything for a month.

Is the free tier actually usable?

Yes. 10 lifetime deletes with the full scanner unlocked. Most people figure out within those 10 if the app feels right.

Why $9.99 lifetime when others charge $4.99/week?

Because the work is done in a single sweep. Charging weekly forever for a one-time job is the trap. Pay once, own it.

What languages is it in?

16 fully translated locales today (Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, Indonesian) — plus 24 more falling back to English as we ship translations.

Does it work on iPad?

Yes. Native iPad layout, not a blown-up iPhone window.

Coming soon

Built by one developer.

Pocketsweep is heading to the App Store. Star the repo or follow along.