Finds what you'd never find by hand
Photos are matched by what the image looks like, not by filename — so a picture re-sent through a chat, re-compressed and saved again is still recognised as the same shot.
- Bursts and near-identical frames grouped by moment
- The best copy is kept for you: favourites first, then the sharpest
- Everything else pre-selected, and all of it yours to change
Thousands of photos, real progress
No spinner that stalls at ninety percent. Every stage of the scan reports what it's doing and how much is left, with a time estimate that settles instead of jumping around.
- Results are remembered, so reopening the app is instant
- Rescans only when your library has actually changed
- Never pulls originals down from iCloud just to scan
Check before it goes
Open anything full screen, swipe through the set, zoom in, play the video or the Live Photo — and mark what you want gone as you go.
- Nothing is deleted until you confirm with iOS's own prompt
- Deleted items wait in Recently Deleted for 30 days
- See what you get back on this iPhone and in iCloud, separately
What it finds
Five kinds of clutter, one pass
Everything that quietly eats a photo library, sorted into categories you can clear in a tap.
Duplicates
The same picture saved twice, however it got there — matched by what it looks like, so re-compressed and re-sent copies count too.
Similar shots
Bursts and near-identical frames, grouped by moment, with the best one suggested as the keeper.
Live Photos
Keep the picture, drop the video half that roughly doubles its size.
Screenshots
Receipts, chats and one-off captures that quietly piled up.
Large videos
The biggest files in your library, largest first.
Nothing leaves your phone
Every photo is analysed on the device itself. PhotoMate never sees your pictures, because they never go anywhere.
Pricing
Try it on a hundred photos
The part most people need is free. Pro is there when your library needs the deep clean.
Free
No account, no card
- Duplicates and Similar shots
- Up to 100 cleanups
- Full-screen preview with zoom and playback
- On-device and iCloud space breakdown
Pro
Subscription · cancel any time
- Unlimited cleanups
- Live Photos — keep the still, free the video
- Screenshots
- Large videos