Image Cleaner For Mac

Image Cleaner is a user-friendly duplicate image scanner designed to help you quickly scour your Mac's hard drives for photo dupes with a simple mouse click.

The Image Cleaner app can be employed to scan both custom folders on your Mac and the Photos Library using a duplicate detection algorithm with adjustable sensitivity based on image similarity.

Before scanning for photo duplicates, you can also set a minimum and maximum file size for the pictures to be scanned, as well as choose the image formats the Image Cleaner app should scan using the right side Format drop-down menu.

You can also pick the app's behavior when removing duplicates, with "move to trash" and "remove permanently" being the two available choices.

Once the duplicate scanning process finishes, Image Cleaner displays a "Clean Similar Image Files" screen which enables you to compare the duplicates it found and pick the ones you want to keep.

Although at first sight Image Cleaner does not provide you with info on the location of the photo you're currently previewing, you will be able to pinpoint each picture's location on your Mac's hard drive when hovering over the check buttons in the "Clean Similar Image Files" screen.

Unfortunately, Image Cleaner takes a quite some time loading the duplicate images on the duplicate image comparison screen, as it needed up to 10 seconds to display the thumbnails and the preview for five JPGs.

Regarding the amount of resources it needs to help you clean your Mac's hard drive of duplicate images, Image Cleaner is not what one would call a CPU friendly app as it will draw over 110% of your Mac's CPU power and just below 500 MB of RAM when comparing and previewing duplicates.

Considering that you won't be using Image Cleaner on a daily basis, the fact that it is a resource hog should not be a problem given that it will help you save vast amounts of disk space by effortlessly finding and removing gigabytes of images from your Mac's hard drives.