Duplicate Cleaner vs Duplicate Files Fixer

Duplicate Cleaner finds duplicate files on Windows computers and network drives, including documents, photos, music, and video. Its Regular, Image, Audio, and Video modes identify matches using file content, attributes, or media-specific details. Image Mode can find exact or similar pictures, including rotated or flipped images, and can use image tags. Audio Mode compares similar-sounding or exact audio and audio tags; Video Mode can compare frames, thumbnails, soundtracks, data, and metadata tags. Scans can include local folders and drives, network paths, and portable devices such as smartphones and MP3 players. Pro can scan inside ZIP and other archive formats. After reviewing results, users can delete, move, copy, rename, or link selected files. Protections include folder exclusions, safeguards for system files and folders, and a check that all duplicates in a group are selected for removal. Duplicate Cleaner Free is for personal and home use, not commercial use. The Pro 5 download includes a seven-day trial. The current download supports Windows 11, 10, 8, or 7 and requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 or greater.

Duplicate Files Fixer scans computers, external drives, and cloud storage for duplicate photos, videos, music, documents, and other files. It can compare file contents as well as names, size, creation and modification dates, and similar names, so identical files can be detected even when their names differ. Users can preview grouped results and choose what to delete; Auto Mark selects extra copies while leaving one in each group unmarked. Folder exclusions are available. On Windows, it can scan Google Drive and Dropbox after sign-in and folder selection. The free version scans unlimited files and removes up to 15 duplicates in one go; additional deletions must be made one at a time. The paid version removes all marked duplicates in one click. It is listed for Android, macOS, and Windows. The paid plan is €35.95 a year, billed annually at a discounted price; the page also lists €64.95 as the product price. PC deletions go to the Recycle Bin by default, but USB and network-drive deletions do not.