# Spaceclear vs Clever Cleaner

**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
| | 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](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1666645584), 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.

| | 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](/guides/cancel-cleaner-app-subscription)).

## 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.