Cleaner Guru: Cleaning App Review 2025

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Searching for an honest and up-to-date Cleaner Guru review? Then look no further. I installed the Cleaner Guru app on my iPhone, loaded with thousands of photos. In this review, I'll show you what works, what stumbles, and if it's a tool you can trust or pass on.

No solid Cleaner Guru app review would be complete without a proper breakdown of features, so let's get into it.

Cleaner Guru review: Features and Functionality

Cleaner Guru tries to cover a lot of ground, and for the most part, it succeeds, at least in terms of what it offers on paper. The app breaks things down into swipeable categories, which feels more intuitive than tap-heavy navigation.

Here's how the features actually stack up in real use:

Similar Photo Cleanup

This was the first tool I tested, and it does what you expect: scans your photo library for duplicates and near-duplicates, then groups them. It highlights the "best" version to keep based on clarity and size. It's not 100% perfect. I found that some image groups weren't true duplicates, but they were good enough to cut down real space fast.

Video Compression

This one surprised me. I had several 4K videos that were hogging space, and Cleaner Guru offered to compress them without losing visible quality. I tested it on a 1.2 GB file and ended up with a version around 300 MB. Playback looked fine on an iPhone screen, though I wouldn't recommend this for footage you plan to edit later.

Contacts Organizer

I rarely touch my contacts, so I didn't expect much here, but Cleaner Guru found over 300 incomplete entries. Which I honestly had no idea existed. It's simple but useful, especially if you've synced contacts across multiple accounts in the past.

Secret Folder

This one's clearly marketed for privacy-conscious users. You can move media into a locked folder that's PIN or Face ID-protected. I tested it with a few travel documents and screenshots; import was fast, and it doesn't show up in Photos. Useful if you're sharing your phone or backing up selectively.

So, while Cleaner Guru doesn't have the depth of desktop-style cleaners or full system access, it hits the major cleanup tasks well.

User Interface and Design

I already briefly mentioned this in the overview section, but it deserves its own little section here because, quite frankly, it's great. Slick, bold, and clearly designed to grab attention. From the moment you open it, it's all big icons, bright color blocks, and smooth animations. It leans into that modern utility feel hard, but thankfully, it's not just for show.

I found the navigation mostly intuitive, and I actually found the swipe photos features really therapeutic; it's a bit like Tinder on your own photos.

Cleanup Results

Ok, the most important section of this entire article is possibly the actual results. Well, in my experience, the app handled duplicate and similar photo cleanup fairly well. It was able to identify clusters of nearly identical photos and suggested one "best" image to keep, much like other apps in this space. That said, you'll still want to double-check suggested deletions. It occasionally marked photos with important differences (lighting, expressions) as redundant. There's no detection for duplicate videos currently, which feels like a gap given how much storage video eats up.

For contact cleanup, the merge tool worked as expected. It caught duplicate entries and removed literally hundreds of incomplete ones in a second. For the Email Cleaner function, I wasn't overly blown away. You still have to take the time to connect your accounts, and it didn't find anything that I couldn't have filtered for directly in my Mail app.

Cleaner Guru review: Scan Speed

Scan speed was on par with my expectations for this type of cleaner app. It felt pretty instantaneous; there was no waiting around, and everything was nicely categorized when I first booted up the app.

Subscription Model

Cleaner Guru comes with a 7-day free trial that gives you access to its complete core features. As of late 2025, here's the current subscription tiers are:

Weekly plan: $4.99
Monthly plan: $6.99
Yearly plan: $39.99

Personally, with this pricing, I feel like you're essentially paying for one-time spring cleaning unless you regularly accumulate clutter. Other apps offer more generous free tiers or one-time purchases, so this model may not suit everyone.

Final thoughts

So, to finish up my Cleaner Guru review, it's a polished app that performs decently for general media cleanup, but after spending time with it, I found its value really depends on how often you plan to use it.

For me, CleanMy®Phone still stands out in my testing. Its Declutter module, for example, gives a more structured way to clean up photo libraries, with batch selection, better previews, and full control over deletions. I also liked their Live to Still feature, which helped trim Live Photos without deleting them entirely. Plus, the built-in Storage overview in Phone Health meant I could actually see what was taking up space and deal with it strategically.