Everything it finds, and how it decides.
An honest storage card, six review screens, a swipe review and a trash you can undo. No internet permission, no All files access, no ads, no account. For Android 11 and newer, in English and Spanish.
The Storage Card
What this profile uses, split into what ClutterScrub can clean and everything else, so the number you see is never inflated.
Honest Rows
Media ClutterScrub can clean, apps and their data, downloads and other folders, the trash, system, and free space. Only the first row is what the app cleans; the rest is there so the total adds up.
This Profile, Not the Whole Phone
Android keeps each profile's files apart, so the card measures the profile you are using. Other profiles count under System.
"At Least" Until You Add Usage Access
Without Usage access the card counts media only and says so: This profile uses at least. Turn it on with Count apps too and apps and their data join the total.
Partial Access, Said Plainly
On Android 14 and newer you can share only selected photos and videos. The card then counts those, a banner says the totals are partial, and Select more adds to the selection. It never asks again on its own.
Says When a Figure Is Missing
With Usage access on, the card says Counting apps and their data while that figure is on its way, and says so when Android could not give it this time, rather than passing off a media-only total as the whole.
A Card for Each Kind
Under the Duplicates card, Photos, Videos, Audio, Screenshots and Messaging media each get a card with its size and item count, largest first. The Photos card also counts the photos of poor quality.
Scan Again Any Time
The scan runs on your phone and reads what is there now. Nothing is sent anywhere to be counted.
Duplicates and Similar Photos
Two tabs, two methods: exact copies proven byte for byte, and photos that only look alike, left for you to judge.
Exact Copies
Files are grouped by size, then by a fingerprint of their first and last 64 KB, then by a full SHA-256 of every byte. A group forms only when the full fingerprints match, so a renamed copy is still found, and files that merely share a size or a name are not grouped.
A Suggested Keeper
In each group the oldest copy in your camera folder, or the oldest overall, is marked Keeper with a star, and the extra copies come ticked. Tap the outlined star on any copy to make it the keeper instead.
Similar Photos
A visual fingerprint of each photo finds burst shots and re-saved copies of the same picture. Each group lists its photos best first, sharpest then largest, so the suggested keeper leads; nothing is ticked for you.
Compare Up Close
Tap a similar photo, or Compare on its group, to see it full screen beside the keeper: one above the other on a phone, side by side on a wider screen. Pinch, drag and double tap move both photos together, each shown with its dimensions, size, date and folder. Make the other photo the keeper, tick it for the trash, or open it in another app.
How Alike Is Alike
A slider in Settings runs from Near-identical, where only burst shots and re-saves match, to Loosely similar, where crops and edits match too, and so do some unrelated photos.
Search and Sort
Find a group by file name or folder, sort by Largest first or Most copies, and narrow by age or type.
Exact Groups First
The exact search runs first, and the extra copies it found stay out of the similar groups.
Photos, Videos, Audio and Screenshots
One review grid for each kind of media, with filters that narrow it to what is worth a look.
Large Only
Every review screen can show only large files. Videos count as large from 100 MB, photos from 10 MB and audio from 25 MB by default, and each threshold is set in Settings: up to 1 GB for videos.
Age Filters
Any age, Older than 30 days, Older than 90 days or Older than a year, so this week's photos stay out of the way.
Screenshots and Screen Recordings
Both in one grid, found by the screenshot and screen-recording folders the app knows.
Select What Goes
Tick items one by one or use Select all; the footer keeps a running count and size of what you picked. Or review one by one with a swipe.
Move to Trash, or Delete Permanently
Moving to the trash is the main action and can be undone for 30 days. Deleting permanently is there when you want the space today.
Review One by One
A month at a time, one photo or video on screen: keep it, or mark it for the trash with a swipe.
Where to Find It
The swipe icon at the top of Photos, Videos, Screenshots and Messaging media opens that screen's list, with the filters you set, by month, newest month first, each with its count and size.
Swipe or Tap
Swipe right to keep and left to mark for the trash, or use the Keep, Trash and Undo buttons. Inside a month, items run oldest first.
Nothing Moves Until You Check
At the end of a month, Marked for the trash shows everything you marked, all ticked. Untick what you want to keep, then move the rest to the trash, with the system asking as always; Finish, keep all moves nothing.
Leave Without Losing Track
Leave with items marked and it asks first: check them, discard the marks, or keep reviewing. A month you finish shows Reviewed until a newer item joins it.
Photo Quality
Photos worth a second look: blurry, too dark, too bright or too small, offered for review on the Photos screen.
The Quality Menu
On the Photos screen: Any quality, Poor quality, Blurry, Too dark, Too bright or Low resolution, with each photo in the grid labelled with its reasons.
Blurry, Against Your Own Library
Each photo gets a sharpness score, and one is marked blurry only when it falls far below the typical score of your library, not against a fixed bar.
Too Dark or Too Bright, Camera Photos Only
A camera photo is too dark when at least 80 percent of it is near black, like a shot from a pocket, and too bright when at least half of it is near white. Only your camera folder is judged, so documents, screenshots and graphics are left alone.
Low Resolution
Photos under 1,000 pixels on their longest edge, read from their dimensions.
Measured With the Similar Search
Sharpness and brightness are measured when the similar-photo search runs on the Duplicates screen, and Blurry waits for at least 10 scored photos to compare against. Low resolution needs no measuring.
Review Only
A score never removes anything by itself. What goes is your pick, and the system asks.
Messaging-App Media
Forwarded videos and photos pile up in chat apps without anyone keeping them on purpose.
Where It Looks
In each app's shared media folder (Android/media), where apps such as WhatsApp keep the photos and videos they receive.
Grouped by App
Each app gets its own section, with Sent and Received apart where the app keeps a folder for what you sent.
What It Cannot Reach
Media an app keeps in its own private storage is out of reach for other apps, ClutterScrub included.
Apps
Which apps hold the most space, with their data and cache, once you allow Usage access.
Usage Access Is Optional
It is never asked for at setup. The storage card offers it with Count apps too, the Apps screen appears once it is on, and everything else works without it.
Size, Data and Cache
Each app with an icon in your app list, with its total and its data and cache sizes. Sort by Largest first or Most cache, or show apps Not opened in 90 days.
Managed in Settings, Not Here
Tap an app to open its own Settings page and clear its cache or uninstall it there. ClutterScrub never clears or removes anything in an app itself.
No Full App List
Apps with no icon in your app list are summed in one line rather than listed, because ClutterScrub only queries the apps you can launch.
The Trash and Restore
Android's own trash, where everything ClutterScrub moves stays for 30 days.
The System Asks First
Every batch of up to 250 items goes to Android as a request, and Android shows its own confirmation. Deny, and nothing in that batch moves.
30 Days to Change Your Mind
Items in the trash keep their space until it empties. After 30 days the system deletes each one for good.
Restore
The Trash screen lists what ClutterScrub moved there and when the oldest item leaves. Restore puts items back where they were, with the system asking first again.
Delete Permanently
Frees the space today, from a review screen or from the Trash screen. Only a permanent delete reports space freed; a move to the trash never claims it.
Cleared So Far
After each cleanup the result shows how much you have cleared so far, and Settings keeps the total cleared with ClutterScrub. Files in the trash count as cleared but keep their space until it empties, so the total never calls them freed, and a restore takes them off it again.
Clutter Reminder
A weekly check that speaks up only when there is something real to review.
Off Until You Turn It On
The reminder is off on a fresh install. On Android 13 and newer, the notification permission is asked for only when you switch it on.
A Quiet Weekly Rescan
Once a week, while your phone is idle and the battery is not low.
A Real Number, Not an Alarm
One notification when Photos, Videos, Audio, Screenshots or Messaging media grows by more than your threshold since the previous scan: 500 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB or 5 GB.
Nothing Removed by Itself
The reminder only tells you. What goes is still your pick, and the system still asks.
Details
The smaller things that make it fit your phone.
Light, Dark or System
Pick the look under Appearance in Settings, or let it follow your phone.
Phones and Tablets
Larger screens get a side pane, in portrait or landscape, and it works with gesture or three-button navigation.
Readable at Large Text
Every screen is tested at up to twice the default text size on a small phone, so no figure, count or button label is cut off.
English and Spanish
The app follows your phone's language: English, or Latin American Spanish on a phone set to Spanish. On Android 13 and newer you can also pick its language on its own.
Android 11 and Newer
Built on the system trash and the storage rules that Android 11 introduced.
Open Source Licences
Every library the app is built with is listed in Settings, generated from the build itself.
Policy and Terms in the App
The privacy policy and terms are in Settings, under About, the same text as on this site. They are in English.
Privacy You Can Check
Claims that rest on what Android enforces and on how the app is built, not on a promise.
No internet permission
The app does not declare it, so Android blocks every connection. If a library declares it, the build strips it, and a check fails the build if it ever reaches the app.
No All files access, no accessibility service
Media permissions only, for photos, videos and audio. The build fails if either special access appears.
Every removal is a system request
The shipped code removes nothing directly. Moving to the trash, restoring and deleting all go through Android's own confirmation.
Optional, and read on the phone
Used for the profile's total, per-app sizes and last-used dates. Per-app sizes are held in memory only.
No analytics, ads or crash reporting
No library for any of them is in the app, and there is no account to sign in to.
What it keeps, and where
A scan index (file names, folders, types, sizes, dates, durations and dimensions, and for chat media whether it was sent or received), the fingerprints and quality measures taken from your photos, per-category totals from past scans, and your settings, including the months you have reviewed and your cleared total, in the app's private storage. No thumbnails or file contents. Excluded from cloud backup and device transfer.
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