Swipe44 vs Cleaner Neat: Clean Up Storage

Quick answer

Cleaner Neat: Clean Up Storage by Smart Tool Studio, whose description calls the product “Phone Cleaner” in its subscription terms, is a broad iPhone cleanup suite that has been on the App Store since 2019. It handles duplicate photos, videos, contacts, email and a PIN vault. It has 4.58 from 113,600 US ratings, and its age rating carries the Contains Advertising annotation.

Swipe44 is a swipe-based camera roll cleaner for iPhone, iPad and Android. It is free to download, shows no ads and asks for no account. There is a Pro subscription, and the store listing does not spell out what it unlocks.

If you want one app to clean videos, contacts and email as well as photos, pick Cleaner Neat: Clean Up Storage. If you want to go through your photos one card at a time with no ads and no data used to track you, pick Swipe44.

Side-by-side

Where Cleaner Neat: Clean Up Storage wins

It cleans far more than photos. The listing advertises cleaning all videos, detecting similar videos, and compressing large videos with minimal quality loss. It also lists detecting and merging duplicate contacts, and an Email Cleaner that removes spam, promos and unread mail. Then there is a PIN-protected vault for hiding photos and videos, AI photo enhancement, storage analysis that shows what is taking up space before you delete, built-in cleaning tips and charging animations. Swipe44’s listing covers photos and nothing else.

Its photo detection covers more file types. Cleaner Neat: Clean Up Storage says it finds similar photos, screenshots, burst photos and Live Photos alongside exact duplicates. Swipe44’s description names duplicate and near-identical photos and stops there. Screenshots, bursts and Live Photos never come up.

It has years of history and a real rating base. It has been on the App Store since 2019 and was last updated in August 2026 at v2.4.9. The rating is 4.58 from 113,600 US ratings. Swipe44 arrived in 2026, is at v1.0.1, and has 6 US ratings at 5.00. That is not a sample you can weigh against six figures of ratings, and a 2026 release has less version history behind it either way. Reviewers say it is straightforward and that it works.

It speaks 28 languages. The store page lists English and 27 more. Swipe44’s App Store page lists one: English.

It sells a lifetime purchase, not only subscriptions. Alongside the weekly, monthly and yearly entries, the listing has two $39.99 entries with no billing period shown and a $59.99 “Lifetime-Cleaner Purchase”. What each one unlocks is not stated on the store page. Swipe44’s in-app purchase list has subscription entries only.

Where Swipe44 wins

No ads, and the store data agrees. Cleaner Neat: Clean Up Storage carries the Contains Advertising annotation on its 4+ age rating, and its privacy label names Third-Party Advertising as a purpose for browsing history, identifiers, usage data, location, diagnostics and other data. Reviewers describe deletion gated behind rewarded video ads, in batches of roughly 20 items. Swipe44’s description says “No ads, no account needed”. Its age rating carries no advertising annotation and its privacy label has no advertising purpose.

No data used to track you. The competitor’s privacy label declares coarse location, browsing history, device ID, product interaction and advertising data used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies. Swipe44’s label has no Data Used to Track You section and no Data Linked to You section. It declares purchases, identifiers, usage data and diagnostics for analytics and app functionality, all under Data Not Linked to You. Swipe44 keeps your photos on the device, with no account.

The swipe workflow. Swipe right to keep, left to delete, one photo at a time. Each photo is reviewed once and then filtered out of future decks. You can undo your last swipe, and you can resume any deck where you stopped. Recents runs your whole library newest first; By Month and By Week split it into smaller sessions. Marked photos wait in a pending pile you can review, restore from, and then delete in one confirmation. Cleaner Neat: Clean Up Storage does not describe a swipe interface anywhere on its listing.

It runs on Android too, and leaves iCloud alone. Swipe44 is on Google Play as com.ehmtech.photo. No Google Play listing was found for Cleaner Neat: Clean Up Storage. Swipe44’s listing also states that cloud-stored originals are never downloaded, so it works from thumbnails and photo details rather than pulling full-size files back onto your phone. The competitor’s listing makes no iCloud claim either way.

Pricing

• Swipe44 is free to download. Pro is $29.99 a year, with a one-time $19.99 introductory offer, or $2.99 a week, and includes a 7-day free trial. What Pro adds is not spelled out on our store page.
• Cleaner Neat: Clean Up Storage is free to download. Its listing carries ten in-app purchase entries: weekly plans from $1.99 to $6.99, $9.99 a month, $29.99 a year, and two $39.99 entries with no billing period shown plus a $59.99 lifetime entry. “One Week No Trial” appears four times at four different prices, so there is no single weekly price to quote. What each entry unlocks is not stated, and the listing states no trial length. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is switched off at least 24 hours before the period ends.

A year costs $29.99 on either app’s annual entry, or $19.99 for a first year on Swipe44’s introductory offer. Weekly plans cost far more on either app over a year: about $155 on Swipe44, and roughly $103 to $363 across the competitor’s five weekly entries.

Which one should you pick?

Pick Cleaner Neat: Clean Up Storage if you want videos, contacts and email cleaned by the same app as your photos, if you need screenshots, bursts and Live Photos found for you, if you want the app in a language other than English, or if you would rather buy once than subscribe. Ads and data used to track you are the price.

Pick Swipe44 if you want to work through your camera roll by swiping, in short sessions you can stop and resume, with no ads, no account, no data used to track you, and the same app on Android. It is a new app with 6 ratings, so you are trading a track record for a cleaner deal. For the wider field, see our best photo cleaner apps roundup.

Before you install anything, you can size the job in your browser. Our free duplicate photo space calculator estimates how much of your storage duplicates are holding, and the camera roll cleanup estimator shows what a cleanup pass would free. Both run on the page with no download and no account.