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Which iPhone storage cleaner actually fits your phone
Every cleaner in the App Store promises the same thing. The differences that matter are boring and measurable: how much space the app itself needs, which iOS versions it supports, and how many people have actually used it. We read those numbers off Apple's public catalogue and put them side by side.
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Most used
Cleanup693,974 ratings · 166 MB · iOS 15.0
Cleaner Kit346,940 ratings · 147 MB · iOS 15.0
Cleaner Guru148,614 ratings · 161 MB · iOS 16.0
How this site works
We check apps against Apple's public App Store catalogue and say plainly what we can and cannot verify from the outside. We have not installed these apps on a test device, and no page here pretends otherwise. One of the apps we list, SmartClean, is our own, and links to it earn us money. It is marked everywhere it appears, and it does not get placed first by default: on track record it is far behind the rest.