Folio Refresh vs Systune

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Folio Refresh compared with Systune
Detail	Folio Refresh	Systune
What it does	Duplicate photos, found and cleared safely, on a Mac	Clean your Mac without the guesswork
Stage	Not given	MVP
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	IE	Not given
Pricing model	Free trial	Not given
Pricing	Free to try: scan, review and clean your first 100 photos. After that $14.99 once, no subscription.	US$39 once for three Macs in one household with two years of updates (direct). Mac App Store edition planned at US$39 once with final pricing to follow App Store tiers. First 100 waitlist signups receive free lifetime license including all future versions. 14-day full trial and 30-day refund planned
Key features	Finds identical copies, even renamed ones Detects edited and cropped versions Organizes burst photos by best frame Suggests best photo and explains why Safe deletion with undo capability Converts videos to HEVC and photos to HEIC Scans multiple storage locations simultaneously Touch-screen Mac support On-device processing with no uploads	103 cleaning categories with four risk levels 92 security and privacy checks with one-click fixes 300 macOS settings with profiles, snapshots and undo Disk analysis with list, treemap, ring and file-kind views Duplicate and large-file finder Command-line interface with JSON output Full-screen terminal dashboard iPhone companion over local network 67 maintenance tasks including rebuilds and service restarts Startup item and launch daemon inspector
What makes it different	Works with catalogs like Lightroom Classic and Capture One, not just folders Finds edited and cropped versions that byte-for-byte finders miss Free for first 100 photos, then one-time payment with no subscription Everything stays on your Mac with no account or tracking All actions can be undone at any time	All changes listed and confirmed before removal with a test strip showing exact paths and bytes Protected system paths refused and user files offered to Trash with regenerable caches deleted in place Five rounds of independent security, correctness and performance review with published findings Local processing with no analytics, crash reporting or scan result uploads
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	18 −4 (down) since last check	11 +1 (up) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	2	7
Citation Flow (Majestic)	16	20
Referring domains (Majestic)	5	17

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