What the iPhone photo cleaners charge.

A year of cleaning up your camera roll costs between $0 and $623.

Most of these apps default to a weekly subscription, and a weekly price is hard to read. $11.99 a week sounds like a coffee. Multiplied out, it is more than most people pay for their phone plan. Each line below runs from the cheapest paid option an app offers to the most expensive one, over a year. The hollow dot is the cheap end, the solid dot the expensive end.

Weekly prices multiplied by 52, monthly by 12. An app with one price gets one dot. Every row sits on the same scale, so the three at the bottom are not rendering errors, they are what $20 looks like next to $623.

The bottom three rows are also where the difference compounds. Slider and Keepworthy both cost about $20 in year one. In year three Slider has cost $60 and Keepworthy is still $19.99, while Cleanup's top weekly tier has reached roughly $1,870.

Three of those rows have a different source, and it's worth saying which. Cleaner Guru, Cleaner Kit and Cleansmith name their in-app purchases things like Premium and Unlimited Access without saying over what period, so the App Store page alone can't tell you what a year costs. Those rows come from the prices shown inside the apps: Cleaner Guru at $6.99 and $7.99 a week or $39.99 a year, Cleaner Kit at $6.99 a week or $29.99 a year, and Cleansmith at $7.99 a week or $29.99 a year after a 3-day trial. Cleaner Guru's listing also carries Premium prices up to $9.99 that I can't assign a period to, so its ceiling may be higher than the bar shows.

And a limit on all of it. Apple publishes only an app's ten best-selling in-app purchases. Six of the apps above were at that cap, so their real price menus may be longer than what the store shows. These are floors and ceilings on what is visible, not a complete list.

Where Keepworthy's $19.99 sits, honestly

It's on the chart because leaving it off would be convenient. But the row overstates what most people pay, which is nothing.

Cleaning up is free: the best-shot ranking with its reasons, duplicates, blurry photos, similar shots and screenshots, similar videos with the side-by-side compare, the measured visual-change number, compression at the everyday settings, and album suggestions one at a time. No daily limit, no cap, no account, no ads, no trial timer. Pro is $19.99 once, for people working through a very large library who want batch tools, the full score card, trim and Best Frame. It covers iPhone and Mac and you can share it with family.

If you clean your library with the free app and never pay me anything, that is the app working as intended. The full free-and-Pro breakdown lists every line.

How to read a price ladder yourself

Sources

• Price ladders were read from each app's US App Store in-app-purchase list on 15 September 2026. Apple publishes only an app's ten best-selling in-app purchases, and six of these apps were at that cap, so no ladder here is provably complete.
• Cleaner Guru, Cleaner Kit and Cleansmith don't disclose billing periods on the store page. Cleansmith lists ten in-app purchases all named “Premium Subscription” with no period attached to any of them. Their figures were read from the prices shown inside the apps.
• Ratings and versions came from Apple's public lookup endpoint the same day. Apple's caches disagree by a few hundred ratings between calls, so counts are rounded.
• Connor Tumbleson, “Predatory iOS Cleanup Applications” (January 2025) documented this pricing pattern first and is worth reading.

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