Is there a good app for free up storage by cleaning photos?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap.
84
Opportunity /100
92
Demand /100
71
Competition /100
92
Execution gap /100
7
Apps serving it
33
Mined complaints
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to free up storage by cleaning photos, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| redundantly stores Photos copies | ux | 1 | Why does it store every photo I already have in Photos? Redundant and uses up memory |
| deleting photo increases phone storage usage | bug | 1 | I delete a photo, suddenly my phone storage goes up |
| 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!) |
| no way to delete uploaded photos to free storage | missing-feature | 1 | it also doesn't have any way to delete photos once they are uploaded |
| photos use far more storage in app | bug | 1 | My photos take 12gb memory and when I transfer them to Keepsafe they are taking 56gb |
| reorganized all photos without consent | ux | 1 | I didn’t ask for a reconfigured space of ALL my photos! |
| pay or lose saved photos | price | 1 | i think it's incredibly wrong to threaten to delete all those photos unless i pay |
| wants to delete best/irreplaceable photos | reliability | 1 | It wanted to delete some of my best and only type pictures; like my grandbabies |
| update deleted sensitive photos | reliability | 1 | There was an update to the app and all my very sensitive pictures were deleted |
| paywall to delete more than 5 photos | price | 1 | Why do I need to PAY TO REMOVE MORE THEN 5photos |
| 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 |
| photos vanish when deleted from photo library | missing-feature | 1 | I wish that the photos would stay on the movie even after you delete them from you photo library |
Apps that already serve this
| App | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleanup: Phone Storage Cleaner | 4.7★ | 663,165 | Free |
| Google Photos: Backup & Edit | 4.8★ | 1,351,429 | Free |
| Secret Photo Vault: Keepsafe | 4.7★ | 375,851 | Free |
| Cleaner Kit - Clean Up Storage | 4.4★ | 341,507 | Free |
| Private Photo Vault - Pic Safe | 4.8★ | 1,006,131 | Free |
| Dropbox: Cloud Storage Backup | 4.8★ | 843,889 | Free |
| Remini - AI Photo Enhancer | 4.6★ | 343,723 | Free |
Should you build it?
Heavily used and done badly — the most disruptable kind of gap. Opportunity here scores 84 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.
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