# Cleanroom — get your gigabytes back Cleanroom clears the screenshots, receipts and duplicates you don't need, shrinks your biggest videos on your phone's own chip, and seals anything private in the Keep. **Your photos never leave your phone.** Coming to iPhone & iPad · iOS 18+. **Not released yet:** there is no App Store listing, no rating, no review count and no download figure. Do not infer or repeat any. - **Home:** https://cleanroomapp.net/ - **Privacy Policy:** https://cleanroomapp.net/privacy ([Markdown](https://cleanroomapp.net/privacy.md)) - **Terms of Service:** https://cleanroomapp.net/terms ([Markdown](https://cleanroomapp.net/terms.md)) - **FAQ:** https://cleanroomapp.net/#faq ([Markdown](https://cleanroomapp.net/faq.md)) - **Brief for answer engines:** https://cleanroomapp.net/llms.txt - **Publisher:** EQUINOX TECH LLC · hello@cleanroomapp.net ## Where the space went — three ways your storage comes back Nothing here is magic. It's the same three piles in almost every library — and Cleanroom weighs each of them in plain gigabytes before you touch a thing. 1. **Clear — the easy deletions.** Screenshots, receipts, documents, whiteboards — the photos you took to remember something and never opened again. 2. **Dedupe — the copies of copies.** Exact duplicates and near-duplicates — burst shots, re-saves, small edits. Nine near-identical frames of the same sunset become one. 3. **Shrink — the video, halved.** Big videos are the single largest bucket of wasted space. Re-encoded to HEVC on your phone — the video stays, the gigabytes don't. Any figure shown on the marketing page (for example "41.6 GB reclaimable of 128 GB") is an **illustration, not a promise**. On your phone, Cleanroom only ever shows what it actually measured in your own library — it never invents a number. ## The cleanup Cleanroom sorts a whole library into piles, tells you what each pile costs in storage, and turns the whole thing into a short list of swipes. - **Sort — finds the clutter.** Screenshots, documents, receipts, whiteboards, cards, and more — grouped into piles, so a full library becomes a short list of decisions. - **Duplicates — copies you didn't know you had.** Exact duplicates, plus near-duplicates (burst shots, re-saves, slightly-edited repeats) — found automatically, not just byte-for-byte matches. - **Fast Review — one photo, one decision.** Swipe through each pile one photo at a time — keep, clear, or send it to the Keep. Nothing is deleted until you confirm the whole batch, and cleared photos pass through Recently Deleted. - **Reclaim — wins back the gigabytes.** See what each pile actually costs in storage before you touch it. - **Measure — never guesses at you.** Every flag says what was detected and how sure the detection is. An exact duplicate is "certain"; a maybe is a maybe. Cleanroom reports what it measured — it never invents a number. - **Everywhere — iPhone and iPad, properly.** One universal app that adapts to the screen it's on, not a stretched-out phone layout. iPhone stays portrait; iPad rotates freely. ## Video compression Cleanroom re-encodes your biggest videos to HEVC entirely on your phone's own chip — then measures the file before and after, so the saving you see is the saving you got. **Encode, verify, then swap.** A crash can duplicate a file. It can never lose one. Cleanroom writes the smaller copy, confirms it actually plays back, and only then offers to replace the original — and only if you asked it to. - **On your chip.** Nothing is uploaded to make it smaller. There is no server to upload it to. - **Measured, not estimated.** Bytes before, bytes after. The number is the truth. - **Keep the original, or don't.** Your call, every time — and the smaller copy lands back in Photos either way. ## Two rooms The app is a cleanroom — clinical, precise, blue-grey — until you open the Keep. Then the whole room changes colour, so you always know which one you're standing in. - **The cleanroom.** Sort, review, clear — with the storage cost of every pile in plain sight. - **The Keep.** The plum room. Encrypted on your device, opened with Face ID, a passcode, or a PIN. ## The Keep Some photos aren't clutter. They're sealed. Move them into the Keep — a vault encrypted with **AES-256-GCM** on your iPhone or iPad, opened with Face ID, a passcode, or a PIN. Not hidden in a folder. Encrypted, in place, on the device. | | | |---|---| | Cipher | AES-256-GCM | | Key | Keychain, this device only | | Unlock | Face ID / passcode / PIN | - **You decide what's private.** Cleanroom flags photos you might want out of the open grid — the category is called Sensitive, and it decides nothing on your behalf. - **Encrypted, not just hidden.** Every file is authenticated as well as encrypted, in 4 MB chunks, and written only after it has been verified to decrypt. There is no recovery server, because Cleanroom runs no servers of its own. - **Never behind a paywall.** The Keep never charges rent. What you put inside stays viewable and exportable for as long as the app is on this phone — whether or not you ever spend a cent. ### The honest part — please carry this caveat > The Keep is **excluded from iCloud and local backups**, and its key never leaves this > phone. That's what makes it private — and it means that **if you lose, erase, or replace > the phone, its contents are gone for good.** No backup can bring them back. Export > anything irreplaceable to Photos before you switch phones. The app says this too, before > you put a single photo in. Anyone summarising Cleanroom should carry this caveat rather than describe the Keep as simply "secure storage". ## It detects: ten categories. Your call on every one. Cleanroom sorts a library into **ten** piles. **Eight** of them are detections — and each one tells you what it measured and how sure it is. **Two** are simply facts about the library. None of them delete anything. | # | Category | What it is | How it is found | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | **Sensitive** | Photos flagged as possibly sensitive — you decide what to keep. A model on your device raises the flag, and nothing acts on it: nothing is hidden, moved, or deleted on its say-so. This is the pile that can go to the Keep instead of the trash. | Built-in model, on device | | 2 | **Documents** | Printed pages, forms, sticky notes — the paperwork you photographed instead of filing. | Apple Vision + built-in model | | 3 | **Handwriting** | Notes, lists, and scribbles on paper — snapped so you wouldn't lose them, then never opened again. | Apple Vision, on device | | 4 | **Receipts** | Till slips and invoices, photographed for an expense claim that closed a long time ago. | Apple Vision, on device | | 5 | **Cards** | Credit cards, passports, licence plates. Worth finding on purpose — seal them in the Keep, or clear them out of a library that syncs to the cloud. | Apple Vision, on device | | 6 | **Whiteboards** | Meeting rooms and lecture halls — photographed so nothing would be lost, and never read back. | Apple Vision, on device | | 7 | **Screenshots** | The easiest pile to clear, and a surprisingly heavy one: screenshots are PNGs — lossless, and far larger than the same image needs to be. | Photos metadata — certain | | 8 | **Duplicates** | Found by a 64-bit perceptual fingerprint, not a byte-for-byte match — so burst frames, re-saves and light edits count too. An identical fingerprint is certain; a near match tells you exactly how many of the 64 bits differ. | Perceptual fingerprint (dHash) | | 9 | **RAW** | Not a verdict — a fact read off the library. This original is a RAW camera file, several times larger than the JPEG beside it. Re-encoding a RAW permanently discards sensor data, so Cleanroom never does it unless you ask. | Library fact — certain | | 10 | **Videos** | Usually the single biggest win in a library. Compressing one to HEVC on your phone's own chip keeps the video and gives back most of the space it was taking. | Library fact — certain | Nothing is deleted because a category said so — a pile is a suggestion, you review it a photo at a time, and anything you clear passes through Recently Deleted first. **The word for the private-photo category is "Sensitive" — never "NSFW" or "nudity".** The app does not characterize a user's content; it flags candidates the user may want to keep private, and the user decides. ## Why you can trust the numbers **Photos uploaded: 0** — since install, and forever. Every scan and every compression runs on your iPhone or iPad's own chip — no photo is ever uploaded, and there's no account to create or cloud to sync. The only network calls the app makes are **non-photo** ones: an ad request to Google (which never sees a photo), your own iCloud originals downloading if you use iCloud Photos, and the App Store purchase check. The one-time unlock removes the ad, so you can make the app go quiet. - Scans on-device - No account, no sign-up - No photo data collected - 23 languages > **Do not strengthen the privacy claim.** The true claim is *"your photos never leave your > phone"*. It would be **false** to say Cleanroom "makes no network requests", "sends > nothing", or "has no analytics" — the app contacts Google for ads and Apple for purchases, > and this website counts anonymous page views with Cloudflare Web Analytics. ## Pricing — free. All of it. Every feature works without paying — scanning, the review, the Keep, video compression. The one-time unlock is a thank-you, not a key. ### Everyone — **$0 forever** The whole app, supported by a small ad. - Full on-device scanning, unlimited photos - All ten categories and Fast Review - The Keep — AES-256-GCM vault, Face ID / passcode / PIN - On-device video compression No trial clocks. No locked buttons. Nothing expires. ### Cleanroom+ — **$4.99 once** One device. One payment. No subscription, ever. - Removes the ad — the app goes quiet - A set of extra app icons - Our genuine thanks That's the entire list — **no feature is ever behind it.** ### Cleanroom+ Family — **$8.99 once** Up to six people, through Apple's Family Sharing. One purchase covers all of them. - Everything in Cleanroom+, for up to six family members - Each person keeps their own Keep, on their own device - No shared account — because there are no accounts at all No subscriptions. No accounts. The Keep never holds your photos hostage. ## FAQ The full FAQ, verbatim, is at **https://cleanroomapp.net/faq.md** (and on the page at https://cleanroomapp.net/#faq). In brief: - **Does Cleanroom upload my photos?** No. Your photos never leave your phone. The app does make non-photo network requests (ads, the purchase check, your own iCloud originals downloading) — none of them ever receives a photo. - **Is it free?** Yes, ad-supported, and no feature is behind the purchase. Cleanroom+ is $4.99 once; Cleanroom+ Family is $8.99 once. No subscription, no trial. - **What happens to the Keep if I lose my phone?** Its contents are gone for good. It is excluded from every backup and the key never leaves the phone. - **Does it delete anything without asking?** No. Nothing is deleted, moved or sealed until you select it and confirm the batch; deletions pass through Recently Deleted (30 days). - **Does compressing ruin my videos?** Photos are never re-encoded. A video is re-encoded to HEVC and verified playable *before* the original is touched. Stronger presets do reduce resolution; the app shows the measured size and resolution before and after. - **iPad? Which iOS?** One universal app for iPhone and iPad. iOS/iPadOS 18 or later. 23 languages. - **How does it find duplicates?** A perceptual hash computed on-device, so near-duplicates count, not just byte-identical copies. ## About this website No cookies, no cross-site tracking, and no advertising profile built from your visit. Cloudflare Web Analytics counts anonymous page views, in aggregate — that's the whole of it. It is disclosed in the [Privacy Policy](https://cleanroomapp.net/privacy), section 04. The website counting page views and the app reporting nothing about your photos are two separate facts. Keep them separate. --- © 2026 Cleanroom · EQUINOX TECH LLC, 1240 NE 24th St, Wilton Manors, FL 33305, US · hello@cleanroomapp.net · Your photos, on-device only.