Lighten: Photo Cleaner
Free up space, keep the best
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases
iPhone
Scan your library and see what is actually worth deleting: the same shot taken five times, the blurred ones, the old screenshots. Then swipe through them.
Your photo library is mostly the same photo taken five times.
Lighten looks through it on the iPhone itself and finds what is actually worth deleting: the shots you took twice, the ones that came out blurred, the screenshots nobody ever goes back to, and the videos where the gigabytes really are. Then it hands them to you one at a time.
HOW IT WORKS
Give it access to your photos and it walks the library on the device. Ten thousand photos take under a minute, and the second scan only looks at what is new. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to create.
THE SAME MOMENT, TWICE
Bursts and retakes are what fill a library, and they are seconds apart. Lighten compares photos taken close together, groups the near-identical ones, and picks the keeper for you. A favourite or an edited photo is never the one it suggests deleting, because someone spent time on those.
OUT OF FOCUS
A blurred photo is measured, not guessed at: sharpness is read off the pixels in both directions. Anything that cannot be measured is left alone rather than offered up.
ONE SWIPE EACH
Go through everything the scan found, one photo at a time. Swipe left to delete, right to keep, and undo the decision you regret. Or open a category, select a whole grid, and clear it in one go.
HONEST ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Deleted photos go to Recently Deleted in the Photos app and stay there for about 30 days. The space comes back when you empty that album, not before. Lighten says so on the main screen instead of claiming credit it has not earned yet.
Sizes are estimates, and the app says About rather than pretending otherwise. iOS does not tell apps exactly how much storage a photo occupies.
A RECORD OF WHAT YOU CLEARED
The work is invisible by design, because the library looks the same afterwards. History keeps the running total, the number of photos, and a six-month chart.
FREE AND PRO
Scanning your whole library and reviewing everything it finds are free and unlimited, and will stay that way. What is metered is the deleting: 200 photos a month on the free plan, which is enough to clear a real backlog.
Pro removes that limit. It has one price, not a list: a yearly plan, or a single payment if you would rather never think about it again.
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Photos now look like photos.
Everything you see is loaded at full quality, including the originals kept in iCloud rather than on the device. Videos play. Any photo, screenshot or video can be opened full screen before you decide anything about it.
Scanning waits to be asked. Opening the app no longer sets it reading your whole library; there is a button for that now. And Scan Again really does look again, rather than repeating the answer it gave last time.
Two things it can now do in one step: delete everything a scan found, and stop a one-by-one review early and act on the photos already marked.
Fixed: a photo could stay on screen after you moved to the next one, and some libraries were scanned without every photo being examined.
The developer, Muhammed Furkan Kfrevi, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Muhammed Furkan Kfrevi
- Size
- 1.2 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Turkish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Lighten Pro Lifetime $24.99
- Lighten Pro Yearly $9.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Pinkontin