Duplicate Detective: Cleaner App Reviews

My macbook got filled up with years of pictures and files. I was going at it for hours and discovered this. Wow, what a time saver. Highly recommended.

I needed to go through over 200K files to find duplicates. In less than an hour this app had done its magic. Kudos to the developers.

Thanks for saving me space. I would love them to work a new verison to clean my closet as well.

Cleaned up 10 years of clutter in 2 minutes!

Downloaded, ran it, let it do its thing in the background, and checked in periodically. It took only a few minutes, and gave me back a nice chuck of disk space. It did exactly what it said it would do.

I freed up 6 GB of space - It was simple and intuitively obvious to use.

Does exactly what you need it to do. Even reads alternative file names that are nonetheless the same file (even if renamed differently). Get it.

SUPERB! Does EXACTLY what I want it to do! Can be quite tedious to check off items by hand when file labels are very similar and you want to keep them organized by EXACT LABEL IN SAME FOLDER. As far as I can tell the app LISTS them indiscriminately in any of first or secondor third (etc) place so if you want to KEEP files organized in same folders you MUST ACCURATELY VISUALLY CHECK to be sure you are consistently throwing out the file from the SAME FOLDER….. nonetheless SUPERB!!!!!!! WORTH EVERY PENNY !!!!!

I had 490GB of duplicates that no other program worked to remove, these programs were gemini and easy duplicate finder, both of which froze up and were big wastes of money. When you have a huge amounts of duplicates, this is the best program to use in my opinion, thank you to the makers of this program for helping me with a huge headache of mine.

I do a lot of research and e-files often come with different name but similar content. This app is a dream for a rapid document compare and a quick, safe way to delete duplicate documents from your database. THANK YOU! A fan for life who has had ZERO problems.

As many have already stated, this App works amazingly well and is extremely easy to use and understand. I’ve tried many duplicate finder apps (programs on Windows) and this is by FAR the best one I’ve ever used. Well worth every penny to purchase!

This is great app. But I would like to have a suggestion that it could remember the previous folder selection and reduce the time for generating hash file. Anyway, thanks for this tool Daniel

It never ceases to amaze me how this tools finds dups on my local drive. But more importantly, you can point this at any NAS drive on your network (even on the Windows and Linux boxen) and magically it finds dupes. This tool has literally saved me THOUSANDS of $$ that i didn’t have to spend on new storage. a must have app.

This program was so easy to use and saved me Many hours of manual search. Glad I bought it for sure.

Yes, it would be nice if it could search through my files more quickly, but the convenience of finding duplicate video files with different names is totally worth it. • Easy to use • Thorough • Confidence inspiring

Given all the variations of file saving and backups, inveriably one ends up with duplicates of photos, emails, word docs etc etc. this program does exactly what it promises, it finds duplicate files, tells you about them, asks if you want to delete and then cleans up the hard drive. Awesome!

This is an amazing tool!!!

very disappointing as I had high expectations in light of their excellent Memory Cleaner. Took .about 3 minutes for my initial picture scan. Sounds great? It then takes another 3/4 hour saying it is creating file hashes only to come up with the fact that there are no duplicates. It it so slow in fact that the program has to remind you it hasn’t frozen and then asks inane questions about how your day is going. Unless you have lots of time to wait or want to go shopping, I wouldn’t recommend it. The results may be accurate but other programs do a faster job.

I just used it twice, on photos, and it works very well. After spending valuable hours trying to track down duplicate pictures, I wish I would have bought this app earlier.

Downloaded to help find overlaps in our household music library — “display duplicates” in iTunes shows 5856 items, a Duplicate Detective scan of music media folder shows — 0. If you are using this for music — save your money and buy vinyl with it.