MediaClean
Find exact duplicate media files across local folders, review the keeper recommendation, and move extras into a reversible quarantine. No uploads, no accounts, no automatic deletion.
/Volumes/StudioDrive/Exports
/Users/me/Pictures/reference
Scan, review, quarantine, restore
MediaClean turns duplicate cleanup into a visible workflow you control before any file moves.
Exact duplicate scans
Point MediaClean at folders or drives. It hashes only files that share byte sizes, then groups exact matches without uploading anything.
Lazy SHA-256Keeper recommendations
MediaClean favors originals over cache, trash, temp, and quarantine paths, then shows why before you act.
Reviewable groupsReversible quarantine
Extras move into an app-managed quarantine with their original paths recorded, so restore is one click instead of a panic hunt.
No delete by defaultDesigned for external drives and messy archives
MediaClean keeps the workflow simple: choose folders, scan, inspect duplicate groups, quarantine extras, and restore if you change your mind.
- Protected folders keep Photos libraries, app data, and your own safe directories off-limits.
- Changed files are skipped if size or mtime no longer matches the scan record.
- SQLite history records scan, quarantine, restore, ignore, and purge actions.
Clean up without making deletion the first move
MediaClean’s default action is move-to-quarantine. Permanent purge is separate, explicit, and acts only on files already in quarantine.
- No cloud dependency, account, or media upload path.
- Restore refuses overwrite if a file already exists at the original path.
- OS Trash purge is available after quarantine when you are ready.
MediaFind cleans up your library - then finds anything in what's left
MediaClean does one job for free. MediaFind's Cleanup works on the library you've indexed: exact duplicates for free, and with Pro, near-duplicates, similar videos and blurry or low-quality files, with keeper suggestions - through the same kind of reversible quarantine. Then the files you keep become searchable by what was said or shown, across video, audio and photos, on your computer.
Free for up to 10 files; Pro adds unlimited indexing, Smart cleanup and more, with a 7-day trial.
MediaClean 0.1.6
QA patch for complete PRD app UI: current-scan duplicate grouping, robust quarantine API errors, Activity, group review, quarantine search and bulk restore/purge, Settings behavior controls, diagnostics, scan cancellation, Developer ID signing, notarization, and stapling.