Spacely · Android · Version 2.0.0
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. 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.
“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. Other apps’ caches are listed for reference only — Android does not let us delete those, and we say so instead of pretending.
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 deviceSee each app’s real on-disk size and how many days since you last opened it, so the ones you no longer use are easy to spot. Uninstalling opens the standard Android dialog — Spacely never removes an app silently.
System uninstall dialogAds
Spacely is free and paid for by advertising. Rather than ask you to take our word for how restrained that is, here is the whole list — check it against the app.
Two places, both inline in the page: in the home suggestion feed, after the fourth real suggestion; and on the cleanup complete screen, below your result and below the main button. Each one is outlined, labelled AD, and its buttons never borrow the wording of ours.
Fails to load → the slot collapses to nothingNo ad on launch. None while a scan or a cleanup is running. None when you press back. None during a swipe session, in the recycle bin, on the storage map, in a notification, on a widget or on your lock screen. No full-screen ad anywhere, and no rewarded video.
No app-open, interstitial or rewarded formatThose placements are not switched off — they are absent from the app’s code. The build only knows two placement names and two inline formats; a full-screen format is not a value the app can express. No server-side switch can bring one back, and an automated test fails the build if the list ever grows.
Verified by test, not by policyOn the completion screen the real figure — what was actually deleted — is drawn before the ad, and the ad loading in never pushes it around. If a cleanup freed nothing, the slot does not exist at all.
No subscription, no in-app purchase, no paywallPrivacy
Spacely now goes online. It requests ads and reports anonymous usage and stability
data, so it declares the INTERNET permission and an advertising ID permission.
Earlier releases shipped 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.
// module graph, asserted on every build :app ──> :core:model files, paths, MediaStore URIs :app ──> :ads :app ──> :notify :ads ─✗─> :core:model :notify ─✗─> :core:model
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 uninstalling goes through the system uninstall dialog. Spacely never removes anything silently.
Android does not let any app clear another app’s cache. Spacely shows you how much each app is holding and takes you to the system screen to clear it yourself — and that number is never counted as space Spacely freed.
Android manages background memory on its own, so a “boost” button would be theatre. The memory screen is a read-only dashboard: no released-megabytes figure, no emptying animation, no rocket.
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, supported by two inline ads. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no paywall — every feature is available to everyone. Android 8.0 and above.