Spacely · Android · Version 4.0.2
See where your space actually went, sweep through thousands of photos in minutes, and get back anything you deleted by mistake — deletions go to a recycle bin first (photos, videos and audio use Android’s own system trash, which exists on Android 11 and later). Every “freed” figure equals what was really deleted, and you can cross-check it against your phone’s own storage screen.
Every screen shows what it found, what it will remove, and lets you take items off the list first.
A map of your storage in blocks, sized by what they actually take up. Drill from a category down to a folder and then to a single file. Where Android will not let any app look inside — Android/data, for example — we say so instead of filling the gap with a guess.
Photos, videos, large files and duplicates go to a recycle bin before they are gone — they land in Android’s own system trash, and Android decides when they expire. Spacely shows you the real expiry date Android reports, never a number we made up. Restore in one tap. Android’s system trash exists from Android 11 on; on Android 8–10 there is none, so Spacely says so before you delete and those items are removed without a bin. Files from folders you picked always go to a recycle-bin folder, on every version.
“Moved to bin” is never counted as “freed”One photo at a time, full screen: swipe left to bin it, right to keep it. A running count shows how much you have marked. Nothing is deleted until you confirm at the end — and you can still take items back out of that list.
Screenshots · blurry · similar · big videosClears Spacely’s own cache, temporary and log files. Each group expands so you can uncheck individual items before deleting.
Real bytes · real progressSurface your biggest photos, videos and audio files; switch the threshold between 10, 50 and 100 MB. Similar shots are grouped with perceptual hashing and byte-identical copies with SHA-256 — all computed on your phone, with the best photo in each group left unchecked.
pHash + SHA-256 · computed on deviceAndroid lets a cleaner see photos, video and audio. For other files — documents, archives, installers — point Spacely at a folder you pick. It lists what is inside, biggest first, and anything you remove goes to a recycle bin inside that folder. Revoke access whenever you like. Spacely does not read your installed app list; a shortcut opens your phone’s own app settings.
You pick the folder · revoke anytimeTurn on a quiet storage overview in your notification shade: free space, total capacity, when it was measured, and a block bar of your storage. Expand it to see up to three more real figures, such as what is pending in the recycle bin and the measured size of screenshots or large files. It comes on when you allow notifications, you can switch it off in Settings, and it is an ordinary notification, not a foreground service. Cleanup suggestions each state one measured fact — such as Trash items still using storage — and open the screen that shows the same number. They come with a daily limit, only while your screen is on (one can appear on your lock screen), and you can turn them off in Android’s notification settings.
Overview can be switched off · real figures onlyA 3×2 widget draws your used storage as a ring, with the figure out of your total capacity and the time it was measured, plus a View button that opens the storage map. A smaller 2×1 widget shows free space. Both update after a cleanup or when you leave Spacely, not continuously, and show the same numbers as the home screen.
Same figures as the app · add it only if you want itPrivacy
Spacely goes online. It is free and shows ads served by Google AdMob — app open,
interstitial and native ads — and it reports technical telemetry, so it declares the
INTERNET permission. You can manage ad privacy options in Settings.
Earlier releases shipped without ads, and the earliest without any network permission at all;
that is no longer true, and we have rewritten every page that used to say so rather than leave
a dead promise standing.
What has not changed is the one thing that mattered: your files are not on that route.
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Real screens
Every image comes straight from Spacely running on a physical Android phone.
Honest by design
Storage cleaners have a reputation. These are the rules we hold ourselves to instead.
Progress bars track real bytes being processed, not a timer animation. Every figure on screen — found, selected, freed — comes from a real measurement you can verify in Android’s own storage settings.
Every candidate is listed with its real size and can be unchecked. Photo and video deletion goes through Android’s system dialog, and files from folders you chose go to a recycle bin first. On Android 11 and later photos, videos and audio go to the system trash as well; on Android 8–10 there is no system trash and Spacely tells you before deleting. Spacely never removes anything silently.
Android does not let any app clear another app’s cache. Spacely does not list them either — reading other apps’ cache sizes would require usage-tracking access, which we decided not to ask for.
Android manages background memory on its own, so a “boost” button would be theatre. Spacely has no memory screen at all: no released-megabytes figure, no emptying animation, no rocket. It works on storage, where the bytes it frees are real.
A file moved to the recycle bin still takes up space, so it is shown as pending, never as freed. “Freed” means the bytes are gone and your system storage screen will agree. The two numbers are always kept apart.
Languages
No downloads, no language packs. Switch in Settings, or follow your system language.
Free, with ads (app open, interstitial and native). No in-app purchases, no subscription, no paywall — every feature is available to everyone. Manage ad privacy options in Settings. Android 8.0 and above.