Slidebox vs CleanMy®Phone: what 3,738 reviews say

Slidebox vs CleanMy®Phone: the numbers side by side

Where do Slidebox and CleanMy®Phone differ most?

• Billing, trials and cancelling is a bigger issue for CleanMy®Phone (53.6% of low ratings) than for Slidebox (16.7%).
• On the app not working or doing little, CleanMy®Phone draws 28.6% of its 1–2★ reviews, while Slidebox draws 15.2%.
• On calling the app a scam or rip-off, CleanMy®Phone draws 7% of its 1–2★ reviews, while Slidebox draws 1.2%.
• On a paywall before the app does anything useful, CleanMy®Phone draws 10.8% of its 1–2★ reviews, while Slidebox draws 5.2%.
• Slidebox's unhappy reviewers mention ads, pop-ups and pushy screens roughly twice as often as CleanMy®Phone's: 6.9% against 2.6% of 1–2★ reviews.

Both are compared on iPhone, where both have enough reviews. Slidebox lets you swipe through photos one at a time to delete them or file them into albums, and compares similar shots side by side; CleanMy®Phone finds duplicates, similar and blurry photos, screenshots and large videos, and was previously sold as Gemini Photos.

Are Slidebox and CleanMy®Phone improving?

Slidebox went from 3.61 stars in 2025-Q3 to 3.44 in 2026-Q3, with billing at 27.3% of its latest 1–2★ reviews. CleanMy®Phone went from 3.81 stars in 2025-Q3 to 3.83 in 2026-Q3, with billing at 16.7% of its latest 1–2★ reviews.

Where are Slidebox and CleanMy®Phone alike?

Their reviewers agree on deleting photos or files the user wanted, having to review items one by one and support that doesn't answer: on each, the two apps are within two points of each other (3.5% vs 2.3%; 2.5% vs 3.8%; 1.7% vs 2.9%). 13.5% of Slidebox's reviews are 1★ and 59.1% are 5★; for CleanMy®Phone the split is 28.2% and 52%, so CleanMy®Phone has noticeably more very angry reviewers.

What do happy users praise in each?

30.5% of Slidebox's 4–5★ reviews say organising photos, compared with 10% for CleanMy®Phone. 11.4% of CleanMy®Phone's 4–5★ reviews say it finds duplicates and similar shots, compared with 2.6% for Slidebox. 14.4% of CleanMy®Phone's 4–5★ reviews say it is fast, compared with 10.5% for Slidebox.

Which is cheaper, Slidebox or CleanMy®Phone?

Slidebox: App Store (US) in-app purchases from $1.99 to $49.99; Google Play (US) $0.99 to $49.99 per item. CleanMy®Phone: App Store (US) in-app purchases from $2.99 to $39.99. Slidebox starts lower, at $0.99 against $2.99. Billing makes up 16.7% of Slidebox's 1–2★ reviews and 53.6% of CleanMy®Phone's.

What reviewers say about Slidebox and CleanMy®Phone

• Slidebox: "Well, a weekly subscription isn't a good idea dears. One time purchase is more likely..." (3★, Google Play, US, Jul 2024)
• Slidebox: "Used this app quite a lot. Now this app can not access WhatsApp photos. So now it's useless" (1★, Google Play, US, Nov 2023)
• CleanMy®Phone: "If this is the best there is no hope" (1★, App Store, UK, Feb 2026)
• CleanMy®Phone: "there is no way to tell what the results of the “scan” are. I deleting this app as I find it useless." (2★, App Store, US, Aug 2024)

Picked from the billing, trials and cancelling and the app not working or doing little themes, where the two differ most.

Should you choose Slidebox or CleanMy®Phone?

On ratings alone, Slidebox is the safer bet on the evidence here, with 15.6% fewer 1–2★ reviews. If billing, trials and cancelling is what worries you most, Slidebox has the better record on it.