Is there a good app for find and delete duplicate photos?
Prime Gap: 17 apps already serve this, and 55 data points mined from real user reviews across 2 sources show where they fall short. Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
Data refreshed September 28, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to find and delete duplicate photos, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| duplicate photo detection | missing-feature | 1 | One feature I wish it had was to tell you when you have duplicate photos |
| no duplicate photo detection/removal | missing-feature | 1 | like the option to identify duplicate photos and be able to delete them |
| no automatic duplicate/similar photo deletion | missing-feature | 1 | I am still having to go through each photo to delete the copies and or similar ones |
| photo upload duplicates | bug | 1 | it’d upload it twice for two spots which just looks like a user error |
| creates duplicates and makes photos disappear | bug | 1 | This app makes duplicates and pull disappearing acts |
| photo suggestions pick good photos to delete | other | 1 | mostly picked good pictures to try and delete so I had to go through each suggestion (over 1600!) |
| limit on how many photos you can delete | price | 1 | Why am I getting a limit on how many of MY photos I can delete |
| photo deletion | missing-feature | 1 | No way i saw to delete a photo |
| duplicates photos on bulk transfer | bug | 1 | the duplication of every photo upon a huge selection for transfer purpose’s |
| wants to delete best/irreplaceable photos | reliability | 1 | It wanted to delete some of my best and only type pictures; like my grandbabies |
| app deletes user photos | bug | 1 | Will delete all your pictures! |
| no photo duplicate/versions on phone app | missing-feature | 1 | the ability to duplicate your photos on the phone app |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duplicate Photos Fixer | 4.2 | 3,149 | $4.99 |
| Photo Shield AI | 4.3 | 389 | Free |
| Cleaner Guru: Clean Up Storage | 4.5 | 148,532 | Free |
| Pay Once: Photo Picker | 5.0 | 3 | $6.99 |
| Photo Recovery: Deleted Files | 4.3 | 19,116 | Free |
| Cully - Photo Cleaner | 5.0 | 42 | $3.99 |
| Phone Cleanup: Storage Cleaner | 4.5 | 223 | Free |
| Swipify: Photo Cleaner | 0.0 | 0 | $1.99 |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 75 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
Who has tried building this
Only 3 attempts, 2 stale; a 91-star finder leads but momentum has faded—a small, mostly idle niche.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| magamig/duplicate-images-finder | stale | 91 | Python |
| s-chh/Find-Duplicate-Photos-Video | stale | 18 | Python |
| ppound/photostat | active | 14 | Java |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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