DeDuplicate - Cloud Cleaner

This app scans your cloud, searching for identical files and allowing you to delete all the extra copies! Saving space and tidying up.

Cloud storage services don't have built-in tools to identify and delete duplicates.

If you store many files on the cloud, it's very easy to lose control and flood your limited space! Especially since, nowadays, cloud storage services offer mobile apps with automatic backup features, and things can escalate quickly using them.

DeDuplicate currently supports:
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- OneDrive
- MEGA
- Yandex.Disk

How does it work:

1) You log into your account.
2) You choose which folder(s) to scan, or the entire drive, and wait a short while! The time varies with the NUMBER of files, not their size.
3) You review a list of all the duplicates that have been found, optionally choosing which ones to ignore.
4) You confirm the operation!

Other than the ease of use, the main highlights of DeDuplicate and its unique selling points are:

- it’s not resource-hungry: it doesn't need to download the files to identify duplicates. Instead, it requests metadata about them from the cloud providers, using the APIs that they make available. So it doesn't waste bandwidth, doesn't need a lot of free space on your device and it's very fast: less than 10 minutes for 100.000 files in the tests conducted during development. Of course, it depends upon the network connection.
- It precisely identifies duplicate files by comparing their "hash" values. If two or more files happen to have the same name and/or size, but different contents, they are not counted as duplicates. They MUST have the same content!
- The entire process takes place on the user's device. There's absolutely no data collection about the user's files: the app communicates directly with the cloud provider, and no information gets through intermediary servers.

Why this app and HOW COULD I ACHIEVE THE SAME THING WITHOUT IT?

When it came down to it, the only way to remove duplicates on the cloud turned out to be the time-consuming procedure of downloading everything to your computer to use one of the many utilities that delete duplicate files on the hard disk, “offline”. When done, the changes would have to be synchronized to the cloud; in the worst-case scenario, you have to re-upload everything from scratch. That’s not a viable option when you have over 500 GB of unorganized cat pictures :) And of course, you can't do that on your phone.

This app comes with ads, but they don't get in your way too much: they appear one time before the scanning and deletion process, respectively. And if you want to remove them altogether, there's an in-app purchase option.

DeDuplicate is being actively developed. At first, it was only for OneDrive, now it supports all the major platforms and others can be taken into consideration.

Remember: this is just the first version! If you encounter an error, please take the time to contact us instead of leaving a bad review, it can be very helpful for both of us!