Short answer: both are free to download, both have a daily free allowance, and both sell a one-time purchase. On the US App Store on November 14, 2026, Clever Cleaner: AI CleanUp App lists "Clever Cleaner Weekly with Trial" at $6.99 and "Clever Cleaner Lifetime" at $39.99; Spaceclear Pro is $8.99 once, with no weekly plan at all. Clever Cleaner's privacy label lists Identifiers under "Data Used to Track You"; Spaceclear's is Data Not Collected.
Price
| Feature | Clever Cleaner | Spaceclear |
|---|---|---|
| Download | free | free |
| Weekly | $6.99 ("Weekly with Trial") | — |
| One-time | $39.99 ("Clever Cleaner Lifetime") | $8.99 (Spaceclear Pro) |
| Trial | 3 days on the weekly plan (per its description) | no trial that bills; the free plan never expires |
| Free use | "free to download and use within generous daily limits" (its description) | free scanning; 30 deletions, 1 video compression, 10 conversions and 10 contact fixes a day |
Clever Cleaner prices from its App Store page, as listed on the US App Store on November 14, 2026, before tax. Some articles describe Clever Cleaner as completely free; its current listing shows the in-app items above, so check the listing before you decide.
Privacy
From each app's App Privacy section on November 14, 2026. These are the developers' own answers to Apple.
| Feature | Clever Cleaner | Spaceclear |
|---|---|---|
| Data Used to Track You | Identifiers | none |
| Data Linked to You | Identifiers, Usage Data | none |
| Data Not Linked to You | Purchases, Diagnostics | none |
Spaceclear's answer is Data Not Collected: no account, no server, no analytics, no ads.
What Spaceclear does
- Photos: duplicate and similar photos with the best shot marked, burst frames, blurry photos, screenshots, documents and receipts.
- Videos: big and lookalike videos, screen recordings, and compression that keeps HDR.
- Make photos smaller: photo compression, RAW → HEIC, Live Photo → still.
- iCloud: free up iCloud space.
- Contacts and calendar: merge contacts (with an automatic backup), and clean old and spam calendar events and reminders.
- Secret Space: a vault with PIN, Face ID, decoy PIN, break-in photo, notes and an encrypted iCloud backup.
- Extras: charging animations, widgets, Control Center and Shortcuts.
- Coming in an update: an email cleaner.
For what Clever Cleaner includes, see its App Store description; we don't list another app's features we haven't verified.
Which to choose
- You want the lowest one-time price: Spaceclear, $8.99 once.
- You already bought Clever Cleaner Lifetime: keep it; there's nothing more to pay.
- You're on Clever Cleaner's weekly plan: at $6.99 a week, about $28 a month, compare that with either app's one-time price. Cancel in Settings › [your name] › Subscriptions (steps).
FAQ
Is Clever Cleaner free?
It's free to download and, per its description, free to use "within generous daily limits". Its App Store page also lists a $6.99 weekly plan with a trial and a $39.99 lifetime purchase (US, November 14, 2026).
Is Spaceclear free?
Free to download and scan, with 30 free deletions plus daily free compressions, conversions and contact fixes. Spaceclear Pro, $8.99 once, makes everything unlimited and adds Secret Space.
Which one is more private?
Going by the App Store privacy labels: Clever Cleaner lists Identifiers as data used to track you, and Spaceclear's label is Data Not Collected. Both labels are the developers' own answers.
Updated 2026-11-14