Duplicate & similar photo cleaner for iPhone, iPad and Mac
Ten shots of the same moment. Keep the best one.
Duplicate Photos finds exact copies, near-duplicates, bursts and re-saved copies, shows you which shot is best — and why — and clears the rest safely.
Free to scan · One purchase for iPhone, iPad and Mac
Duplicate Photos
★ Best Shot1
2
3
4
5
6
◎ Sharper — 71 vs 44☀ Better exposed — 3.2% fewer blown highlights☺ Facing the camera
Keep 1 · Remove 71 keep ↩ remove the rest S skip
‹ ReviewBurst · 8 photos⋯
★ Keeper1 of 8
Why this one
Sharpness
Faces
Exposure
Leave aloneKeep 1, mark 7Next ›
Free to scanSee every group and its pick before paying anything.
Explains its pickSharpness, focus, exposure, expressions — in plain words.
Pay once, use everywhereNo subscription. One purchase for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Stays on your deviceEvery photo is analyzed where it is. No uploads, no account.
What it finds
Basic duplicate finders only see files that are byte-for-byte the same. Most of the clutter in a real library isn't.
⧉
Exact copies
The same file imported twice, saved twice, synced twice. Removing these is free, without limits.
▤
Bursts
The rapid-fire frames you never sorted. One of them is the keeper; the rest just take space.
≈
Near-duplicates
Three takes of the same pose, a second apart. Grouped by what the photo shows, not by the file.
⇲
Re-saved copies
The photo a messenger saved back at half the resolution, next to the original you already had.
✎
Edited versions
An edit and its original living side by side as two separate photos.
◌
Pocket shots
Frames with nothing in them — a lens in a pocket, a finger over the camera. Listed separately, never marked for you.
iPhone · iPad · Mac
One app for every screen you keep photos on.
Same engine, same picks, same safety rails — with a review built for each device. Buy the unlock once and it's unlocked on all three.
★ Keeper
Leave aloneKeep 1, mark 2
iPhone
One hand, one group at a time. The best shot large, the burst underneath, one tap to keep it and mark the rest.
iPad
Your queue on one side, the group on the other. Touch, or a keyboard when one is attached. Scans keep going in the background.
Mac
The whole library from the keyboard. Compare side by side, zoom in full screen, open any photo in Photos.
Requires iOS 18, iPadOS 18 or macOS 15 or later.
Best Shot
It tells you which one — and why.
Every group is ranked by what can actually be measured: sharpness, motion blur and soft focus, exposure and blown highlights, noise, framing, and the faces in it — who's facing the camera, whose expression is better.
The pick comes with its reasons and their numbers. “Better exposed” alone is an opinion. “Sharper — 71 vs 44” is something you can check.
Open any photo to see everything measured about it, in two clearly separate parts: how it compares to the other shots in its group — tied, ahead, well ahead — and what's true of the photo on its own, like resolution and blown highlights.
There's no “87% quality” badge, because no honest measurement produces one. You get the rank within the group, and the evidence behind it.
Compared with this group
Sharpnesswell ahead
Exposureahead
Noisetied
Expressionahead
This photo
Focus
Sharp
Blown highlights
0.4%
Resolution
12.2 MP
Rank in group
1 of 8
On iPhone
One hand. One group at a time.
The best shot is already picked, so the fast path is one tap — Keep 1, mark 7 — or one swipe to the next group. When you want a closer look, it's all gestures you already know from Photos.
Flick a frame up to mark it, pull it down to keep it too.
Hold the photo to see the keeper, let go to come back.
Double-tap to make this frame the keeper.
Pinch to look at every pixel of the original.
Undo any mark with a tap — or a shake.
‹ ReviewNear-duplicates · 4⋯
★ Keeper1 of 4
Why this one
Faces
Sharpness
Exposure
Frame 2 markedUndo
Leave aloneKeep 3, mark 1Next ›
On Mac and iPad
A hundred groups over one coffee.
The whole review runs on the keyboard — on the Mac, and on an iPad with a keyboard attached. Arrows to move, a number to keep that shot, Return to clear the rest, S to skip. Compare side by side and look at any photo full size.
←→↑↓Move through the group
1–9Keep only that photo
⇧1Keep this one too
SpaceLook closer
↩Keep the kept, remove the rest
SSkip to the next group
On iPhone and iPad
Start the scan. Put it down.
A whole library takes a while, so you don't have to watch. Switch to another app and the scan carries on; on iOS and iPadOS 26 the system shows its progress for you. Groups appear while it runs, and you can open any of them before it's done.
What's been analyzed is kept, so the next scan only looks at what's new.
ScanningStop
64%about 6 min left
Comparing 12,480 photos from your whole library
Burst8 photos
Re-saved copy2 photos
Exact copies3 photos · free
Near-duplicates4 photos
Burst12 photos
Safe by design
Nothing is deleted without you.
Nothing is marked for removal until you mark it. Before anything goes you see exactly what is kept and what is removed, group by group — then macOS or iOS asks you to confirm.
Removed photos go to Recently Deleted in Photos, recoverable for 30 days.
Favorites, hidden photos and shared photos are never removed.
A RAW and its JPEG stay together — kept together, removed together.
Every mark can be undone until you remove.
Ready to clean up
412kept
1,036removed
6.3 GBfreed
Removed photos stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days.
CancelRemove 1,036 Photos
How it works
1
Scan
Give it access to your Photos library and pick how strict “similar” should be. The scan runs entirely on your device.
2
Review
Go group by group. The best shot is already picked and explained — agree with one tap or key, or pick another.
3
Clear
Check the summary, confirm, and get the space back. Change your mind within 30 days in Recently Deleted.
Your photos stay yours.
Every photo is analyzed on the device it's on. On the Mac the app ships without network access — it can't send anything. On iPhone and iPad it makes no network connections of its own.
⌂
On your device
Every photo is analyzed locally, with Apple's own frameworks.
⊘
No uploads
No servers of ours, nothing sent anywhere. On the Mac, no network permission at all.
◯
No account
No sign-up, no login. Purchases go through Apple.
0
No data collected
That's the App Store privacy label, and it's the whole story.
Free to see. Pay once to clean it all.
Most photo cleaners now charge every year. This one is a single purchase — for your iPhone, your iPad and your Mac — and it never needed the internet to begin with.
Free
$0
Scan your whole library
Every group ranked, with reasons
See how much space you'd get back
Remove exact copies — no limits
Clear pocket shots and empty frames
Full Unlock
One-timeprice shown in the App Store
Everything in Free
Remove near-duplicates
Remove bursts
Remove re-saved copies and edited versions
Unlocked on iPhone, iPad and Mac
Family Sharing — one purchase for the household
No subscription. No trial clock. No counter of “free deletions left”.
In brief
Duplicate Photos: Best Shot is an iPhone, iPad and Mac app that finds duplicate and similar photos in the Apple Photos library, recommends the best shot in each group with measured reasons, and moves the rest to Recently Deleted.
Platforms
iPhone (iOS 18 or later), iPad (iPadOS 18 or later), Mac (macOS 15 or later); one App Store purchase covers all three
Sharpness, motion blur, focus, exposure, noise, framing, faces and expressions
Review
Gestures on iPhone, touch or keyboard on iPad, keyboard on Mac; every mark can be undone
Price
Free to download, scan and remove exact duplicates; one-time Full Unlock for the rest. No subscription
Privacy
Runs entirely on the device, no account, App Store label “Data Not Collected”; the Mac app has no network access
Safety
Nothing is removed without confirmation; removed photos stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days
Languages
English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese; follows the system language
Developer
eDIRECT24 UG, Germany
Questions
Does it upload my photos?
No. All analysis happens on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. The Mac app has no network access at all, and the iPhone and iPad app makes no network connections of its own. The App Store privacy label is “Data Not Collected”.
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone with iOS 18 or later, iPad with iPadOS 18 or later, and Mac with macOS 15 or later. It's one app in the App Store, with a review designed for each device.
Do I have to buy the unlock again on each device?
No. Full Unlock is bought once and works on your iPhone, iPad and Mac signed in with the same Apple Account. Family Sharing is supported too.
How does it decide which shot is best?
It measures each photo against the others in its group — sharpness, motion blur and soft focus, exposure, noise, framing, and faces (facing the camera, expression) — and ranks them. The top pick shows its reasons with their numbers. You can always pick a different one.
How is it different from the Duplicates album in Photos?
The Duplicates album in Photos finds copies of the same picture — identical files, or the same image at another resolution or with different metadata — and merges them. It doesn't group bursts or several takes of the same moment, and it doesn't tell you which shot is better. Duplicate Photos: Best Shot finds both kinds, ranks every group by measured quality and explains its pick.
Will it delete anything on its own?
Never. Nothing is marked until you mark it, you see a summary before anything is removed, and macOS or iOS asks you to confirm.
Can I get deleted photos back?
Yes. Removed photos go to Recently Deleted in the Photos app and stay there for 30 days.
Does the scan keep going if I switch apps?
Yes, on iPhone and iPad it carries on in the background, and on iOS and iPadOS 26 the system shows its progress. If it's interrupted, what was already analyzed is kept, so the next scan only looks at what's left.
What's free, and what does the unlock add?
Scanning, the rankings and reasons, and removing exact (byte-identical) copies are free without limits. The one-time Full Unlock adds removal of near-duplicates, bursts, re-saved copies and edited versions.
Is it a subscription?
No. Full Unlock is a single In-App Purchase. Family Sharing is supported, and Restore Purchases brings it back on another device signed in with the same Apple Account.
Does it work with iCloud Photos?
Yes. It works on your Photos library, including photos kept in iCloud; those are downloaded to your device for analysis.
Are favorites safe?
Yes. Favorites, hidden photos and photos in shared albums are never removed, even when they're in a group.
What about RAW + JPEG pairs?
A RAW and its JPEG are treated as one photo: kept together or removed together, never split.
Does it handle videos?
Not in this version. It's built for photographs; videos are skipped.
Duplicate Photos: Best Shot