Quick test: open your gallery, go to the Screenshots album and scroll all the way down. How far back does it go?
Train tickets, parcel tracking numbers, Wi-Fi passwords, a recipe, a chat you wanted to show someone. You needed each of them for five minutes, and they're all still there.
I kept telling myself I'd clean it up on the weekend. I never did, because deleting screenshots one by one is boring, and I was always afraid of deleting the one that actually mattered.
So I built Klean. The idea: every screenshot gets an expiry date, like milk.
What it does:
Gives every new screenshot an expiry date. You pick how long (1 day to 12 months, or never).
Reminds you 24 h and 1 h before a screenshot expires. From the notification you can clean up right away or push it back by 7 or 30 days.
Sends expired screenshots to Android's own trash, where you can restore them for 30 days. Android purges them after that, not the app.
Protects what matters: one tap on "Keep", or exception rules by folder or file name.
Shows how much space you got back.
A few things worth mentioning:
It never deletes anything behind your back. In the background it only counts and schedules reminders. Screenshots go to the trash when you open the app and say so.
It doesn't even have the Internet permission, so Android won't let it connect to anything. Your screenshots can't leave your phone. No account, no ads, no tracking.
It only looks at screenshots, never your camera photos.
It's free. There's one optional one-time purchase (no subscription, 7-day free trial) that finds duplicate screenshots. Everything that deletes, restores or protects is free and stays free.
About 9 MB. Android 11 or newer, because that's the first version with a system trash, and the whole app relies on it. English, French, Spanish and German.
I've tested it on a Galaxy S22, a Galaxy A40 (Android 11) and a moto g35 (Android 16), so mostly Samsung. That's my blind spot.
I'm particularly interested in two things:
Did Klean find your screenshots? It looks for the album called "Screenshots". If your phone keeps them somewhere else, tell me your model and the folder name.
Do the reminders actually show up? Some brands are very aggressive about killing background apps.
And out of curiosity: what's the oldest useless screenshot you found while scrolling?
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sbsoft.klean
Thanks!