Looking for a free photo swipe delete app to clean up my phone storage. I have thousands of pictures and manually going through them is taking too long. I want an easy way to swipe and delete unwanted photos. Any recommendations or apps that work well for this?
Deleting Photos on iPhone: My Experience with SwipeWipe vs Clever Cleaner
Alright, let me just jump straight into it because I’ve been scratching my head about this all day.
So you’re sitting there, phone storage running low, looking for something to organize or clear your endless pile of photos. There are dozens of apps out there, but here’s what went down for me.
When Apps Turn Your Camera Roll Into a Hostage Situation
Not kidding—SwipeWipe literally wanted to charge me $10 a week for the privilege of deleting my own pictures. Ten bucks. Every. Single. Week. I’m not sure who came up with that price, but unless the app secretly also washes your clothes or makes coffee, that’s wild. I got hit with a paywall before I even got to the “Select” button.
There Has to Be a Better Way (and… There Is!)
Then I tripped over something called Clever Cleaner Swipe Photos App on the App Store. The download button didn’t have any fine print, no ‘free for three days’ nonsense, just straight up “Get.” I figured, “why not?” Worst case, I’m out a few minutes.
What’s hilarious is this app actually does the same job. Cleans up similar photos, sorts out screenshots, flags big videos—basically what those $10/week apps promise—with zero shenanigans. No sudden pop-up blocking me, no “Upgrade to continue,” nada.
No Locked Features, No Surprises
When they say “free,” turns out they really do mean it. I was bracing for some little lock symbol or gray button waiting to pounce, but the interface was just… open. Refreshing, actually.
It’s almost like those app store horror stories where you accidentally subscribe for premium broccoli-tracking by clicking too fast, but this time, I walked away with my photos sorted and wallet intact.
Is SwipeWipe a Joke, or Am I the Joke?
Maybe there’s some secret SwipeWipe does that I missed, but I can’t see why anyone would pick the $10/week route unless they just love paying subscriptions for the principle of it.
If you’ve actually found a good reason to pay for it, I’m genuinely curious—maybe I’m living under a rock. But until then, Clever Cleaner Swipe Photos App is my new go-to for decluttering pics. Free, simple, and most importantly, not trying to mug me for lunch money every week.
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Honestly, with all these “free” photo cleaner apps clogging the App Store, it feels like a game of dodge-the-subscription-trap. @mikeappsreviewer already put SwipeWipe on blast for its aggressive pricing, and I gotta agree – $10 a week is straight up nonsense for just swiping and deleting photos. Are they deleting stress along with the pictures? Doubt it.
But here’s the thing: while Clever Cleaner App does skip a lot of those shady paywalls, the interface isn’t perfect for everyone. Some folks crave that Tinder-style left/right swiping, and Clever is more about smart sorting and batch cleaning than pure swipe-to-trash action. If you’re hunting for that exact swipe-to-delete flow, your options narrow down fast—most genuinely free ones don’t bother updating or disappear sooner than your battery on a group chat.
Alternative route? Don’t sleep on your phone’s built-in “Photos” app (yes, it’s boring and slightly painful, but sometimes old school wins). You can bulk select by date and mass delete, which is kinda satisfying in its own right. Or Google Photos—not quite swipe-delete, but easy for mass culling and WAY less sketchy on your wallet.
Honestly, the whole situation feels like a scam buffet—companies charging us to delete our own stuff. Until someone drops a real, always-free, swipe-to-shred app, you’re stuck picking between the least annoying. For now, Clever Cleaner App’s probably your best bet if you want comprehensive cleanup and zero hidden “gotchas.” Just don’t expect literal left/right Tinder-like swiping for every single photo. The app world loves to overpromise and underdeliver, but at least this one lets you keep your money for, idk, actual lunch.
Here’s the honest tea: if we’re talking literal left/right “swipe to delete” like Tinder-for-trash, the absolute pickings for totally FREE apps are slim to none—unless you count those apps that dig into your wallet the sec you want to do more than breathe near your photo gallery. SwipeWipe got a lotta hype but that $9.99/week (yeah, a week) price tag is as wild as it sounds, and @mikeappsreviewer + @sognonotturno already read them for filth, so nothing new there.
Clever Cleaner App, on the other hand, actually lets you get to work, no booby-trapped paywall every ten seconds, and it sorts your pics into handy categories—screenshots, dupes, huge vids, etc.—so you can nuke big chunks fast. Downside? No classic left/right swipe marathon. It’s more about batch selects and smart filters, but TBH, that might save you MORE time than doom-swiping thru thousands one by one, just saying.
Actually, I don’t totally agree with the idea that the built-in Photos app is always “just as good”—it gets unwieldy if you have a lot of stuff and want to see, for example, all your blurry memes or triplicate group shots in one go. But, if you want a free solution and don’t care about a little extra manual effort, old school mass select on your iPhone or Google Photos gets the job done with no sketchy surprises.
So, TL;DR: Free, real swipe-to-delete apps are unicorns, most “free” apps straight up trap you. Clever Cleaner App won’t charge you for cleaning your own mess and makes big culling way faster, even if swipe mode is more “tap & zap.” I’ll take that over being guilt-tripped into a $40/month tidy-up subscription. If you ever FIND a 100% free, no-strings, left/right swipe-n-yeet app that doesn’t disappear after two weeks, drop it in this thread. Feels like the one thing the App Store’s scared to make happen!