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This page sets Chronoframe for Mac beside four other Mac apps people weigh up for similar work: finding duplicates and getting a photo library into order. Every price below was checked by hand on the vendor's own store on October 25–26, 2026, rather than taken from an affiliate feed or a price aggregator. Chronoframe is our app, and all five here are legitimate options depending on what you value — how you would rather pay, which libraries you work in, and how much you want to see before anything changes.
Pricing
Prices are US figures for a single Mac, read from each vendor's own store.
| App | Price | Lifetime option | Free allowance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chronoframe for Mac | $14.99 once | Lifetime, with Family Sharing | 500 files organized, plus 100 duplicates moved to Trash |
| Gemini 2 (MacPaw) | 1-year subscription, $1.95/mo — $23.40/yr | Not listed on the MacPaw store | Not checked — see their page |
| Cisdem Duplicate Finder | $19.99/yr | $39.99 lifetime option is listed | Not checked — see their page |
| Nektony Duplicate File Finder | Pro: $14.99/yr, or $7.99/mo | $39.99 lifetime | Not checked — see their page |
| PhotoSweeper | $14.99 one-time | Included in the one-time price | Not checked — see their page |
A free allowance is listed only where we have verified the exact limits, which for now is our own. Several of these apps are free to download and gate some work behind a purchase; check the vendor's page for their current terms.
Approach
Price tells you how you pay, not what an app does to your files. Here is how Chronoframe works, followed by how each of the others describes itself.
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Summarized from each vendor's own product page, in their terms. We have not independently tested these claims.
MacPaw bills Gemini 2 as an intelligent duplicate file finder. Its page describes scanning the whole disk, finding “similars” and showing how they differ, a Smart Select that automates the choice, and an algorithm it says remembers what you keep and what you delete. A Duplicates Monitor flags new copies as they appear.
On removal, the page says duplicates go to the Trash by default, with options to delete them permanently or move them to a separate folder.
Cisdem describes matching on file content regardless of file names, using XXH3 hashing with a file-size pre-filter, and side-by-side previews across three view modes. It says it selects duplicates in each group automatically while leaving the original untouched, and offers manual selection plus rules for selecting in bulk.
Its page lists three removal choices: Move to Trash, Remove Permanently, and Move to Folder.
Nektony advertises byte-to-byte comparison — on its account, files differing by a single byte are not duplicates — across the Home folder, Photos and Music libraries, external disks, and cloud folders. It describes an Auto Select with customizable rules, selecting duplicates in bulk by folder, and finding similar photos and similar folders it can merge.
The page describes a confirmation step before deleting, a removal history, and restoring deleted duplicates from the Trash.
PhotoSweeper offers Duplicates, Similar Photos, and Series of Shots modes, with a similarity threshold you can adjust while reviewing, Auto Mark rules for which copy to keep, and Auto Lock to keep already-sorted photos out of removal. It works in Finder folders, Apple Photos, Capture One, and Lightroom Classic.
Under Safe Removal, its page says the app never deletes files from a disk or a media library: photos go to the Trash from Finder folders, to a special album in Apple Photos, and to a Rejected collection in Lightroom Classic.
Chronoframe's preview changes nothing and costs nothing. Point it at one folder and read the plan it builds.
Prices checked Oct 26, 2026 — check each vendor for current pricing.
Gemini is a trademark of MacPaw; Cisdem, Nektony, and PhotoSweeper are trademarks of their respective owners. Named here for identification only.
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