Filerev: Clean Up Google Drive

Brett Batie

About this app

Clean up and organize your Google Drive files with Filerev and reduce storage usage. This software will not only help you find and remove duplicate files in Google Drive, but it will also show your large files, large folders, hidden files, empty folders, and so much more. It displays your files in an organized way so you can quickly see the files cluttering your Google Drive account.

When you first log in to the Filerev app with your Google account the software will scan your files and then present you with a summary of how your storage is used. It will show what is taking the most space between Google Drive, Gmail, Google Photos and other categories. It will also show a summary of how much space your duplicate files are consuming in Google Drive and the number of hidden files, empty files and empty folders. The summary page shows a chart of the largest folders in your Google Drive account and a chart of the file groups (documents, images, audio, video, archive, other) that consume the most space.

Filerev shows your Google Drive files in different categories, such as:

✔️ Duplicate Files
✔️ Hidden Files
✔️ Empty Files
✔️ Files Larger than X MB
✔️ Files Older than X years
✔️ Files not owned by me
✔️ Temporary Files
✔️ Files by Extension
✔️ Custom Files, where you can view files by custom criteria.
✔️ Google Drive Trash

In each category, you will see the total storage space that your files are consuming and the number of files in the category. You can use filters to further drill down to specific files and folders. Then, you can delete the files you no longer want or move them to another location. The bulk delete tool is also available in every category, making it a breeze to delete everything in a specific category quickly.

Below the files, there is another category for your folders where you will see:

✔️ Empty Folders
✔️ Custom Folders where you can filter folders by custom criteria.

You can also use the Storage Usage Analyzer (aka Storage Usage Explorer) to browse your Google Drive folders by size.

You also have the ability to browse your files by specific file types. The file types are first broken down into high-level types such as:

✔️ Documents
✔️ Photos & Images**
✔️ Audio
✔️ Video
✔️ Archive (zip)
✔️ Other

When you view any of these categories, you will see your files further broken down into categories for specific file types. For example, the documents category might show your files in categories such as Microsoft Word, PDF, JPG, Excel, Google Sheets, PowerPoint, etc.

💰 PRICING

With the free plan, you can scan up to 1 million files in your Google Drive account and view how your storage is being used. You can see the number of duplicate files, empty folders, large folders and more that are taking up space in your Google Drive account. You can also delete or move up to 500 files or folders each month.

Upgrade to a paid plan that starts for as little as 4 per month (paid annually) to unlock more features. The paid plans have additional features, and you can scan more files, delete more files and browse large folders and empty folders.

Install the app above to start using the free plan or you can view the plan comparison by visiting https://filerev.com/pricing

🏦 SECURE & PRIVATE

We care about the privacy of your data and are committed to protecting it. Our motivation is to help you organize your Google Drive account, and we will not use your information for anything other than that. Everything is transferred over a secure SSL connection, and we encrypt any account information we store.

We also regularly submit Filerev for security reviews and audits to ensure your data stays safe. You can read more about this here: https://filerev.com/help/faq/is-filerev-safe/

** Please note that you can find and organize photos in Google Drive, but Filerev does not currently show files in Google Photos.

Ratings and reviews

Thank you so much. As a web developer, this app is a life saver for reeling in the massive amounts of files spread everywhere across too many clouds. Between Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive, my Chromebook, and my Windows desktop(s), all of them have had some situation where folders (and files) files were duplicated, folders (and files) were empty, and huge files disappeared into unknown places. This app took care of all that and I've tidied up my 800+GB drive (now 300+GB of useful files)

I've re-written this a few times before posting it because I don't know whether to give it two stars or five. I'm going to settle on four because my only real complaint is the pricing model. Pro - I can't find any other app that performs a similar function, and it seems to work well. I haven't paid yet so all I can see are the results, but they mostly look good (I wish it would identify empty folders though). It performs functions Google should have built into it already. I appreciate that it exists. For the price, I wish it worked with more cloud providers. Con - I HATE the pricing model. I hate software that you may only use once or twice, but prices itself in such a way you'll feel like you're overpaying if you pay for just a month, but you'll feel dumb if you pay a year and only use it for a month. I think part of the problem is the scope of the app. You can use it with multiple google drives, which makes the pricing ($10\month, $21\quarter, $48\year) a great value if you have four or five drives to maintain regularly. It makes it a terrible value if you just want to use it once every few months to make sure your drive hasn't gotten out of hand. I'm still going four stars and will likely pay for some amount of service at some point because I like supporting small devs, I think there is value in this tool, and it will save me time. But at $48/year to clean up a couple hundred GB? I could just pay $99 and go get another 2TB cloud storage from another provider. Good software, tough to justify the cost for individual users. I wish I could just pay $20\year and tie it to a single drive to maintain or something. If more cloud services are added, I could see justifying the $48\year.

Easy to use UI but will only find dupes with the same name - doesn't recognize dupe images under different names Edit: thanks for reply but that was not my experience when using the app. I still found duplicates after using