Remo Duplicate Photos Remover Reviews

by Nonnanmk3

Terrible. Found only 5 dupes. Just a cursory look tells me differently. How do I get my money back??? Ok. Just tried on my phone. Same thing. And yes, did up the similarity setting to 10%. Wow this is really bad. PLEASE don’t waste your money!!!!!

UPDATE so I post the review above and I get an email explaining that RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover is free. Ok sorry, something popped up during install and I thought I was getting charged. It is free. The company was very upset about this. However, not so much about their app not working. Lol. Told me to check “similars”. Really?? I did! And upped the similarity setting to 10% as stated above. I don’t think you read past “How do I get my money back?”.

My review still stands. There really should be a way to give no stars.

by DataDelver

This may work as advertised on photos that have the trash can icon available. However, those of us backing up and then synching to our Macs have developed a problem: synchronization over iTunes has developed a bug within the past year or so. It will sometimes send duplicate photos to your iPad. None of the photos have trash can icons available.

I have about 20,000 photos on my Mac in Photos, which come from uploaded photos taken with my iPhone and iPad. My Mac is the “Master source”. During uploading to Photos I select the option to delete the uploaded photos from my iPhone and iPad. Thus, after I synchronize with iTunes, almost all photos have one copy, and none have the trash can available (trash cans are only an option if the photo is in your Camera Roll folder, a decision that Apple made long ago - no editing and no deleting photos that came from the Master source).

Unfortunately, my last synching with my Mac duplicated 4000 photos. None have trash can icons, so none can be deleted manually. This Remo software only looks through photos in your Camera Roll, and cannot find the duplicates in other folders that came from your Master source.

Does anyone know if there’s an app to remove Photos from an iPad or iPhone that don’t have trash can icons?

by Xplizt

I have lots of duplicates after mistakenly keeping my photos shared across multiple different iCloud accounts. I was skeptical of a free app cleaning up my database without any strings attached, so I tried doing some research on the developer before I downloaded.... I couldn’t turn up any negative information besides the company being headquartered outside of the US... in India to be precise. So I downloaded and set it to scan over 400 photos. It took less than 30 seconds using cellular service on my iPhoneX. When done, it only found 2 “exact” duplicates and 7 “similar”... of which, maybe only 2 of the “similar” photos were “similar” in nature.

Disappointing to say the least... because after reading some of the reviews, I had hoped this thing would find more than just TWO duplicates. Never the less, it was free... so no harm, no foul... although I will still leave a respective review to reflect my experience.

by MrsBuckets

I really wanted RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover to work for me, and after reading good reviews I was quite hopeful. Every time I tried to do a scan, it always “hung” after it had scanned all the photos. After I communicated with their support team and tried a few things, they concluded that it wouldn’t work on my phone because I had already backed up all my photos to google photos. I did disable syncing/google photos app etc and tried scans then as well. But they concluded that it wouldn’t work for any photos that were already synced up with iCloud or google photos etc. That seems like a pretty big flaw to me, unfortunately.

by Dawn2evening

I love that RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover is free and doesn’t collect data. It didn’t work though. I tried it on two different devices and it scanned but could only detect exact duplicates. I don’t think it detected all my exact duplicates either. Of approximately 30k photos, I’m sure more than 10 duplicates. It detected 0 similar images. That was the feature I was most interested in using. To get the best pictures, I hit the shutter button on the phone several times over- like a burst shot. This yields best results for kids and cats alike, but leads to time consuming removal. It also didn’t scan in the background, but I appreciated the fact that it would only pause and continue when it was pulled back up and not start over. Scanning didn’t take any longer than expected with the amount of pics I have, but it made both devices very hot, so I was glad to be able to pause.

For the record, the devices were an iPhone 13 pro max and an old iPhone 7. I’m also impressed that it even was available for the old phone. I will keep RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover for a while and hopefully there will be updates to fix the similar.

Thank you

by DisappointedShawn

I somehow have accumulated tens of thousands of duplicates on my phone. While RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover the great at finding them (45,000+) it does not allow you to delete them all at once. Based on another user review it appear s you can only delete 1000 at a time...which you have to do manually one set at a time because you can’t use the select all feature. I know I’m probably an extreme case as most people won’t have that many duplicates, but still...If you could delete as many as you needed RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover would be much much better. Also, I’m not sure how reliable the file size numbers are as they shift when you select certain files within a set. Sometimes the file that RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover decides is the “original” is the largest file size, other times it’s a smaller one. Not sure why it would select an image with a smaller file size as a keeper.

by Bob Eddings

…makes you think RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover doesn’t work. I originally reported that it simply didn’t work because my observation was that it got to a point in the scan where there was no activity for several minutes, and I didn’t think waiting would make a difference. I tried it again after developer contacted me asking for further details. When it had scanned about 90% it stopped like before (not on a particular number, which seems likely be memory related, rather than quantity) and, instead of quitting after a couple of minutes like before, I just let the device sit there. Sometime between five and ten minutes later the scan resumed and completed. Once scanned the duplicates were identified correctly and I could successfully delete what I wanted. This otherwise seems like a great app. Especially for free! Five stars if developer can fix the pause because I’m sure most people would not wait that long, and quit RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover thinking it was broken, like I did the first couple of times.

I also noted that RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover does not continue scanning if you switch to another app during the scan, as it says you can do, even though I have background app refresh set to ON.

by Alki Sue

It takes time to run the scan (I had over 9000 photos), and to select photos for final deletion, but it did a nice clean job. I had difficulty finding a menu and wasn’t able to get back to it. It seemed to force me to scan all photos. If I could find a menu easily I could figure out how to use RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover better. I’m not the most tech savvy person, but usually can find such things.
Remo responded immediately to help and I understand better how to use RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover . Had I asked questions first, it would have saved me lots of time.

by 777Phil

But see last paragraph for additional.
I was concerned because I always read the negative reviews first and many people said it kept crashing. I have an iPhone 6s. I scanned for duplicates and similar photos and it worked perfectly. The similar photos were actually identical, as far as I could tell.
I had over 1000 photos and it scanned them quickly and I deleted all duplicates and similars, which you can do independently.
The “almost” in the title is because it found two photos similar and they were quite different. However, all in all just saved me hours.
I just rescanned & it found no exact duplicates & none similar. However, I manually found several duplicates, so while it works, it’s not completely dependable.

by 40cabagges

I have this 4 stars because RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover asked me to review it before I had a chance to really use it. I deleted a few photos that RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover found and it seems easy to use. The scanning process was quick considering the thousands of photos I have. That being said, once you use it, how often will this be used? Out of 5 thousand photos, it only found three duplicates. I don’t take duplicate pictures and if one is snapped more than once, I delete it right away.
Not sure how useful RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover really will be but it works good, so far.

by My_own_damn_nickname

I’ve about 3500 photos on my iPad- around 1/3 of them copied from my phone. The other day, I decided to remove the duplicates. Not being a total idiot, I figured somebody else would have written an app for it. Of course, there are scads of them. I downloaded the five most promising.
Between ads, buy-up, and just plain not being able to differentiate between similar photos, four of them quickly became electrons scattered through the universe.
Remo Duplicate Photo Remover is fast, accurate, and intuitive.

by Awh68

Just downloaded RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover and told it to scan all my photos (12,000+). On iPhone 8 running 13.1.3. It found over 200 duplicates in less than 5 minutes. I spot checked and all appeared to be absolute duplicates. I selected select all and deleted them all at the same time. Then I told it to find all similar photos on a second scan. There were 60+. I checked each one and deleted the ones that looked identical to me. What a great time saver. Great app. Not something I will use on a daily basis, but great to use periodically.

by Mariecarlson_03

I do not ever I mean EVER write reviews. However I feel this is totally an exception! This is absolutely the best app out there for removing duplicates of photos! I’ve searched and searched. Even paid for some. Nothing compares to this! Zero pop up ads! Mine takes time but I have started with nearly 66,000 photos. My computer uploaded some photos 12 times! The ONLY negative for me is that I can do the select all - and hit the delete and say yes to deleting them all, but it doesn’t. I figured out it can only handle deleting 1000 at a time. I can’t imagine anyone else has the same problem I had (nearly 19k of doubles!). So for me I have to manually click each one and then rescan after each 1000 deleted. I would have totally paid for this (2.99 to 3.99). I’m not into subscriptions because really how many times would you need to go through and delete doubles after the initial run? Maybe do it yearly?

Anyways by far the BEST app I’ve ever used!

by Dj Jon Bates

I’m undercounting, but I’ve downloaded around 10 free and paid duplicate management apps over a few years. Until this one, I was disappointed by every one: missed dupes; inability to handle large volumes of photos (25,000+); cumbersome selection and filtering; and just plain bad.
RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover doesn’t just remove all the duplicate photos correctly (29,000 image roll had 14,000 dupes), but did it FAST and without any configuration whatsoever.
I would pay for RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover. I wish I hadn’t paid for all the others. Where was this in 2015?!? ;-)

by Rolandrahl

What is your time worth to you.

RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover does what you are trying to do
Quickly and easily

I spent days trying to sort and delete duplicates and sort.
Except when you move a photo you don’t actually ‘move’it. It is just sitting in both albums and your library.
Went online and tried to find a way to make it easier.
No way Apple wouldn’t have a solution

But they don’t
And their answer is ‘why would you need that’

Well just like in the rest of what I do
I have a bulk area like my desk, physically, or my desktop virtually.
But I don’t leave things piled on my desk
I file them, or throw them away.
And I don’t keep a copy on my desk or in multiple folders, unless I need to.

So why wouldn’t I do that with my phone
Because Apple doesn’t give you that option

Like other reviewer, I would pay a small fee or watch ads to use this.
Thank you very much to the developers!

by Smithers000

This is not one of my go to utility apps. Simple, well designed, and effective. 5 out of 5 Starts

I somehow ended up with loads of duplicate photos on my phone. I never got around to deleting/sorting all of them because there were so many and they were never together with the original.

After downloading and trying several other ‘clean up’ and ‘photo removal’ apps that did nothing I found this one. After a quick background scan it found of my +6000 photos I had +/- 300 duplicate. It creates a simple breakdown of exact duplicate and similar files and allows you to choose how to delete, recover or sort them.

by TheTraumaHawk

I never write reviews however RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover was exceptional. I downloaded RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover in seconds, after allowing permissions to access photos it immediately scanning. it took maybe 20 seconds to scan over a thousand photos. Once the scan was completed a quick screen of instructions popped up, which was very simple and strait to the point. I like that fact it has a "select all" option rather than having to select each photo individually. I was able to delete all duplicates in seconds and that was it. Very clean, simple, no frills, no ads, just very straightforward. RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover does what it says it does.

by GC@314

I’ve used this software to keep things under control for quite a while now and it hasn’t let me down in any way. My catalog is more than 22k photos...just start the scan and it will do its job...finding duplicates and similar images. It’s very handy and DOES NOT delete photos on its own...it presents the results and you select those you wish to remove. I really like this level of control. One problem I have is that the developer says that you can minimize RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover and continue using your device...that hasn’t worked for me, so I just set my phone aside and let it run. I consider this a well crafted app that gets the job done.

by Mark___s

RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover itself is wonderful, and works perfectly. It helped me sort out a long standing mess amid my photos, and did it quickly and in a way that makes sense.
The most amazing thing though, is that this developer must be someone with a passion for the work. There is absolutely nothing wrong with making money as an app developer, and in fact, it's expected. But, here's a case where RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover could have been written chock full of ads, with in-app-purchases, or as another of the PITA subscription model apps.
I'd encourage the creator to release a donation version. I'm (now) going to see if the Dev has an email address and PayPal account so I can send off a tip, cup of coffee, whatever. That's how impressive and helpful RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover has been for me. 👍👍

by Tracydee

Ok I was skeptical about RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover but I thought I would give it a try. It works fantastic !!! For real! It scans your phone and IPad for both exact matching duplicate photos and of similar matching photos in 2 separate files. So you can go through the exact match and select them all or hand select the duplicates you want to delete. It will NOT let you delete all of the photos only the duplicates, so it keeps the master. Then you can go to similar and review those. This is perfect if you take lots of screen shots, do photo share and make duplicates to post to social media. I would highly recommend RemoDuplicatePhotosRemover. It will save you hours of trying to review and delete duplicate photos.
And it’s free! Win win!