Phone Swipe Media: Cleaner

Phone Swipe Media vs Swipewipe (2026): prices, ads, free limits and features

Swipewipe has more extras, including On This Day, widgets with streaks, a photo map and AI enhancement, and far more ratings, but its recent US reviews are dominated by complaints about unskippable ads, including one before deleting, and weekly prices. Phone Swipe Media is the calmer option with no ads, no weekly plan and a delete queue you check first, but its free plan is 100 media reviews in total and it has fewer extras.

Published 2026-11-01

Compare the approaches

Phone Swipe Media vs Swipewipe (2026): prices, ads, free limits and features
Approach	Useful for	Limit or tradeoff
Swipewipe: Photo Cleaner	Per its App Store listing on 1 November 2026: swipe right to keep and left to delete, month-by-month review, On This Day with a home-screen widget and streaks, a photo map, AI photo enhancement, a similar, blurry and screenshot finder, and bookmarks to decide later. Rated 4.69 from 100,175 ratings; requires iOS 18.	Swipewipe+ weekly $3.99-$9.99, Premium $5.99 or $9.99, 1-year premium $29.99. No free quota on the listing; recent reviewers report swipe limits and long, unskippable ads, including one before deleting.
Phone Swipe Media	Per its App Store listing on 1 November 2026 (version 1.6.0): swipe right to keep, left to queue and up for Later; month-by-month review; collections for screenshots, screen recordings, long videos and possible duplicates with a side-by-side compare; a delete queue you preview, rescue from or Revert all before iOS confirms. No ads and no weekly plan.	100 media reviews free in total, with no daily reset; then Plus Monthly $2.99 or Plus Lifetime $24.99. No album sorting, compression or Live Photo conversion. 1 rating so far.
Photo Cleaner (Lumi Software)	Per its App Store listing on 1 November 2026: an overview by month and year, swipe left to delete and right to keep, and a final confirmation before deletion. Reviewers say swiping is unlimited in the free version. Rated 4.79 from 5,165 ratings.	Weekly $3.99, Monthly $7.99, Yearly $29.99. The free version shows ads; reviewers mention pop-ups in the middle of the screen and ask for bulk delete and a side-by-side compare.
Clever Cleaner: AI CleanUp App	Per its App Store listing on 1 November 2026: AI groups of duplicate and similar photos with the Best Shot marked, large videos sorted by size, screenshot cleanup, Live Photo to still, photo and video compression, one-tap Smart Cleanup and a Swipe mode with no daily limit. No ads. Rated 4.78 from 84,531 ratings.	Weekly with Trial $6.99 or Lifetime $39.99 (the description also mentions a yearly plan, with no price row); the other tools have free daily limits. Some reviewers felt the free claim was misleading because a paywall or trial appears at launch, and some say similar photos were treated as duplicates.

Feature matrix

Swipewipe and Phone Swipe Media side by side: US App Store listings checked 1 November 2026
Feature	Swipewipe	Phone Swipe Media
Seller	MWM, which also makes Picnic	Mister Business Enterprises LLC, publisher of this guide
Free use	No quota on the listing; reviewers report daily or timed swipe limits	100 media reviews in total, no daily reset
Paid plans (US)	Swipewipe+ weekly $3.99-$9.99; Premium $5.99 or $9.99; 1-year premium $29.99	Plus Monthly $2.99 or Plus Lifetime $24.99; no weekly or yearly plan
Ads	Reviewers report long, unskippable ads every 10-20 photos and one before deleting	None
Swipe actions	Right to keep, left to delete; bookmark to decide later	Right to keep, left to queue, up for Later
Month by month	Yes	Yes
Finding clutter	Similar, blurry and screenshot finder	Screenshots, screen recordings, long videos and possible duplicates with a side-by-side compare; sort by largest estimated size
Extras	On This Day, home-screen widget with streaks, photo map, AI photo enhancement	Inspect metadata, zoom, favorite protection, iPad layouts with keyboard shortcuts
Check before deleting	Not listed; reviewers report an ad before deletion	Delete queue with preview, rescue and Revert all, then the iOS confirmation
App Privacy label	Includes Data Used to Track You, Data Linked to You and Data Not Linked to You	Data Linked to You only: device ID, product interaction, email address, customer support content, crash and other diagnostic data; no tracking section
US rating	4.69 from 100,175 ratings	5.0 from 1 rating
Requires	iOS 18.0	iOS or iPadOS 16.4

Prices are the US store page's in-app purchase rows on 1 November 2026; several rows for one app are separate price points. "Not listed" means we did not find it on the App Store listing; it does not prove the app lacks it. "Not checked" means we did not verify it. "Reviewers" means US App Store reviews, which may not match your experience.

Why people compare them

Both apps review your library month by month with swipes. In 348 US App Store reviews of Swipewipe we read, 122 mention ads, 87 of them in 1- or 2-star reviews; the most frequent recent complaint is long, unskippable ads, including one required before deleting. Other complaints are the weekly price, charges after cancelling a trial, crashes that reset months already done and being asked to pay straight away. Reviewers like its fun, addictive flow, crossing months off and freeing gigabytes quickly.

What Swipewipe does better

Swipewipe has On This Day with a home-screen widget and streaks, a photo map, AI photo enhancement and a blurry-photo finder, none of which Phone Swipe Media has. It has over 100,000 US ratings against Phone Swipe Media's 1. If those extras keep you coming back, Swipewipe may suit you better.

What Phone Swipe Media does differently

Phone Swipe Media has no ads, so nothing interrupts a session or the delete step, and no weekly plan: after 100 free media reviews in total, Plus costs $2.99 a month or $24.99 once. A left swipe only queues an item, a swipe up sets it aside for Later, and you preview the queue, rescue items or Revert all before iOS confirms. It runs on iOS 16.4 or later, while Swipewipe requires iOS 18. Its privacy label has no Data Used to Track You section; Swipewipe's does.

How we checked

Mister Business Enterprises LLC makes Phone Swipe Media, so this is a publisher-written comparison, not an independent test or ranking. Every competitor fact is per its US App Store listing on 1 November 2026: the iTunes lookup, the store page's in-app purchase rows and its App Privacy label. Reviewer statements come from 2,372 US App Store reviews we read from Apple's review feeds on the same day (at most 8 pages per app); counts are keyword matches, not a representative sample. We did not test the competitor apps hands-on. Prices are US prices and can change.

Which one to choose

Choose Swipewipe if you want On This Day, widgets, streaks, a photo map or AI enhancement, and ads or weekly pricing do not bother you.
Choose Phone Swipe Media if you want sessions with no ads, a Later pile and a delete queue you check first, and a $2.99 monthly or $24.99 one-time price after 100 free reviews.
Choose Photo Cleaner (Lumi) if you want free, unlimited month-by-month swiping and accept ads.
Choose Clever Cleaner if you want an ad-free Swipe mode with no daily limit plus duplicate and compression tools.

Availability and languages

Phone Swipe Media: Cleaner is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad and requires iOS or iPadOS 16.4 or later. Its App Store listing names 44 app languages; a translated guide does not prove the app is offered in your country. Competitor prices and limits are US facts from 1 November 2026. Check your local App Store.

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Questions and answers

Is Swipewipe free?

Per its App Store listing on 1 November 2026, Swipewipe is free with in-app purchases and states no free quota. Recent reviewers report daily or timed swipe limits and ads every 10-20 photos. Paid options include Swipewipe+ weekly at $3.99-$9.99 and a 1-year premium at $29.99.

Does Phone Swipe Media have ads?

No. Phone Swipe Media has no ads. It includes 100 media reviews free in total, with no daily reset; Plus then costs $2.99 a month or $24.99 once in the US. Undo, queue review, Revert all and confirming deletion stay free.

Which works on older iPhones?

Per the listings on 1 November 2026, Swipewipe requires iOS 18.0 or later and Phone Swipe Media requires iOS or iPadOS 16.4 or later.

Who makes Swipewipe?

Swipewipe's App Store seller is MWM, which also sells Picnic: Clean Up Storage. Mister Business Enterprises LLC makes Phone Swipe Media and wrote this comparison.