Reclaim gigabytes of storage. Duplicate Media Cleaner finds exact, look-alike, and similar duplicates — safely, and entirely on your Mac. Nothing is ever uploaded.
Download on the Mac App StoreFree to try · Pro is a one-time $9.99 purchase · No subscription
Most duplicate finders stop at identical files. Duplicate Media Cleaner goes further.
Byte-identical copies of photos and videos — the classic duplicates from downloads, backups, and camera imports. Included free.
The same picture saved in different formats or compression — a JPEG and its HEIC twin decode to the same pixels, and the app catches it.
Near-duplicate photos and videos — resized, recompressed, or re-encoded — matched by an adjustable similarity percentage you control.
Auto-pick which copy to keep in every duplicate group — newest, largest, or oldest — then send the rest to the Trash in one click.
Instantly restore the files you just moved to the Trash, right from the app. Nothing is ever deleted permanently.
Inspect every match, reveal files in Finder, or copy their paths before anything moves. Similar groups are always left for your review.
No accounts, no analytics, no cloud. Scanning happens locally — your photos and videos never leave your Mac.
Start free. Upgrade once, keep it forever.
| Feature | Free | Pro ($9.99 one-time) |
|---|---|---|
| Exact duplicate scan (photos & videos) | ✓ One folder | ✓ Multiple folders |
| Review matches, reveal in Finder, copy paths | ✓ | ✓ |
| Look-alike image matching | — | ✓ |
| Similar photos & videos (adjustable match %) | — | ✓ |
| Smart Select (keep newest / largest / oldest) | — | ✓ |
| Move to Trash with one-tap Undo | — | ✓ |
| Select whole duplicate groups | — | ✓ |
| Export results to CSV | — | ✓ |
No. Duplicate Media Cleaner scans entirely on your Mac. It has no accounts, no analytics, and no tracking — your files never leave your computer.
Three kinds: exact duplicates (byte-identical photos and videos), look-alike images (the same picture saved in a different format or compression), and similar photos and videos (resized, recompressed, or re-encoded) using an adjustable match percentage.
Yes. Removed files go to the macOS Trash — never straight to deletion — and the one-tap Undo button instantly restores the files you just moved.
The app is free to download and scan a folder for exact duplicates. Pro is a one-time $9.99 in-app purchase — no subscription — that unlocks multi-folder scans, look-alike and similar matching, Smart Select, batch Trash, and CSV export. Restore it on any Mac signed in to your Apple ID.
Only the folders you choose. The app is sandboxed by macOS and can't touch anything you haven't explicitly selected.