Published Oct 29, 2026, 7:00 PM EDT

Akshay Bhalla was the former game guides editor for Screen Rant and the technology editor at MensXP. He has previously written about smartphones, apps, streaming, gadgets, and games for print, digital, and TV media outlets. When he isn’t writing about tech, he can often be found playing JRPGs, listening to music, or playing with his three dogs.

You can reach Akshay at bhallanator @ proton dot me.

Freeing up storage space on my phone can be a task, and doing it manually can be time-consuming.

Plenty of utility apps can remove app junk, duplicate images, and other large files, but many rely on ads that ruin the experience.

I came across an open source utility app that let me delete three other apps, and I saved 12GB of storage space.

Managing storage space feels like a game of Jenga, but an app solved the problem

One app to rule them all

Earlier, I ran three apps that targeted duplicate files, images, and other large downloads to free up storage space.

The irony was…