PhotoBroom vs Cleaner Kit: What Each iPhone Cleaner Does

Cleaner Kit here means App Store ID 1194582243, published by BPMobile.

What is the difference between PhotoBroom and Cleaner Kit?

PhotoBroom and Cleaner Kit are built for different problems. PhotoBroom is a photo and video cleaner for iPhone and iPad on iOS 18 or later, with seven cleanup categories, analysis that runs on the device with Apple’s Vision framework, no advertising anywhere in the app, and a free tier that hides no scan result. Cleaner Kit, sold by BP Mobile and continuously listed since January 2017, is an all-in-one cleaner: photo triage plus email, contacts, calendar events, video compression and a Face ID-locked vault, funded by an auto-renewing subscription that arrives before the app does. Neither app is a subset of the other.

The table below turns on the axis that settles most of these choices — whether the clutter is photos or everything else.

How does each app decide a photo is blurred?

PhotoBroom has no blurred bucket. Its Low Scored Photos category scores every photo with Apple’s Vision aesthetics model on the device, prints the score on the thumbnail, sorts lowest first, and puts the cutoff under your control — a shot is surfaced because it fell below a line you set, not because a switch flipped somewhere. Cleaner Kit’s own product page describes a fixed “blurred” bucket sitting alongside similar photos, duplicates, screenshots and “with text”, and BPMobile publishes no threshold, no score and no sensitivity setting for it.

The difference matters in one specific, annoying case. A quality model reads a flat, evenly lit page of text as a weak photograph, so deliberate captures — receipts, forms, a page of a contract, a whiteboard — score badly and get swept into a blur list next to genuinely soft shots. PhotoBroom flags those separately and leaves them out of Low Scored Photos unless you switch them on. Sensitivity works the same way: if the cutoff surfaces too much, you move it, and the list shrinks. Neither control has a documented equivalent in Cleaner Kit.

One is a verdict handed to you. The other is a line you drew.

What does Cleaner Kit’s App Store privacy label declare?

Cleaner Kit’s App Privacy card declares Purchases, Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics and Other Data as used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies, and declares device and user identifiers, advertising data, product interaction, purchase history and coarse location as linked to the user for third-party advertising, analytics and app functionality. The description on the same App Store page says the app is “private by design”, that “nothing is uploaded or shared”, and that it “runs directly on your device with no internet connection required”.

Both of those can be true at once, and the honest reading is that they probably are: the photo analysis may well run on the iPhone while telemetry, identifiers and coarse location flow to an advertising and analytics stack. Nothing on this page claims Cleaner Kit uploads anyone’s photos — no evidence of that was found. What is checkable is that the description’s blanket phrasing reads as a claim about the whole app, and the label does not support that reading. Surfshark’s February 2025 study of the ten most popular US App Store cleaner apps named Cleaner Kit the app that shares the most data in the category, across nine data types; the same study found all ten sharing data with third parties for targeted advertising.

PhotoBroom’s side of this is short. Photos and videos are analysed on the device with Apple’s Vision framework and are never uploaded, there is no account and no sign-up, no advertising SDK ships in the app, and the listing declares no tracking at all. That is a comparison of two declarations, which is the only kind of privacy comparison anyone outside a developer’s build system can honestly make.

What does each free tier actually let you do?

PhotoBroom locks nothing. All seven categories are open to everyone, every scan result is visible without paying, and what is metered is deletion: 50 items of any type per calendar day plus 2 large videos, resetting at device-local midnight, with keeps free and never counted against the cap. Cleaner Kit’s free tier is gated, not capped, and the most recent account of it puts the gate before anything else: a 1-star review dated 11 July 2026 reports that the first thing to appear is a paywall, that it is not avoidable, and that there is no waiting for an “X” to show up. Users have separately reported hitting a photo-removal limit and then a paywall (review dated 2025-02-11), and Tumbleson’s teardown, dated 13 January 2025, describes the cohort norm as a subscription screen on launch whose close affordance is hidden. No free allowance number is documented anywhere for Cleaner Kit.

The purchase shapes differ too. Every in-app purchase product visible on the Cleaner Kit listing reads as recurring, with a weekly cadence as the headline offer and a short auto-converting trial as the entry point; the listing shows ten in-app purchase entries under six distinct product names, three of which do not contain the words “Cleaner Kit” at all and several of which are legacy branding of the same underlying subscription, which is why a receipt often does not match the app on the home screen — the Cleaner Kit alternatives page works through identifying a charge. PhotoBroom sells yearly and weekly plans and a one-time lifetime unlock, and Pro adds exactly two things: no daily deletion limit, and Auto-Process All Groups.

Where the record on Cleaner Kit runs out

Everything above is drawn from what BPMobile, Apple and independent researchers have published. Several things a shopper would reasonably want to know are not published anywhere, and this page will not fill those holes with inference.

The free tier is the largest of them. Reviews describe a photo-removal limit; no number for it exists in any documentation, and whether the current build shows scan results before payment was never established. The cohort norm is results shown and the delete action gated, but a cohort norm is a pattern, not a finding about this app. Whether the photo analysis genuinely runs on the iPhone sits in the same category — plausible, unrefuted, unconfirmed. No evidence of media upload was found, and the privacy policy linked from the listing returned no readable body when it was fetched on 3 August 2026.

One claim has been taken off this page rather than qualified. Until 4 August 2026 this comparison said Cleaner Kit’s free experience is ad-supported, on the strength of one review from February 2025. The app’s full public US review corpus was then read end to end: five reviews mention advertising at all, and not one of them complains about seeing an advertisement — one asks for ads instead of the subscription. That is not the profile of an app that interrupts people, so the claim is withdrawn. Its App Privacy card still declares advertising data linked to the user, and that stays, because a declaration about where data goes is a different statement from a claim about what appears on your screen.

Dates are doing real work in the sections above and should be read as dates. Surfshark recorded precise location in February 2025 while the App Privacy card read on 3 August 2026 shows coarse location, so one of those is stale, and the label is the fresher source. Email cleaning is described on the listing, yet one 2026 reviewer reports the build they tested did not include it. And whether any one-time unlock has ever existed on the App Store could not be settled either way: the visible products all read as recurring, and a deal site reselling a “lifetime” bundle is not the App Store offer.

When should you pick Cleaner Kit instead?

When the problem is not photos. If the storage pain is a 40,000-message inbox, several hundred duplicate contact cards, a decade of stale calendar events and a handful of 4K videos you want compressed rather than deleted, PhotoBroom solves none of it and Cleaner Kit does all four in one app, with a Face ID-locked vault for sensitive photos on top. Video compression is the sharpest gap on our side: it reclaims space without asking anyone to delete a memory, which is the most palatable form of cleanup there is, and PhotoBroom cannot do it at all. Cleaner Kit also runs on iOS 15, where PhotoBroom will not install, and independent reviewers repeatedly call it the best-looking app in its cohort.

Read the following as a routing table, not a ranking.

None of those rows is a tiebreaker on its own. Read down the left column, find the job you actually opened the App Store to do, and the app on that row is the one to install.