Antidupes Duplicate Searcher is an app by Acelsoft in the Tools category, listed since at least September 2019. It has no native code, so it runs on any Android processor.
It asks for 4 permissions, 2 of them sensitive: read shared storage and modify shared storage.
What's new in v3.8
- New search mode: Quick search.
- New result view by icons.
- Bugfixes.
- Performance improvements.
Description
From the listing uploaded by “catappult”.
Use Antidupes to find and delete duplicate files of any type in selected locations, filtering specific files (given size, modification date, file type) to delimit the search.
(Note: Android 5 (Lollipop) is supported since version 2.5, in Android 4.4 (KitKat) files can't be deleted from sd card yet)
---- Quick search (New in version 2.0) ----
Find duplicate files in one click:
- Camera photos or videos.
- Downloaded images, videos and audio.
- Images, video and audio in external storage.
- Search by app (if installed): WhatsApp, Viber and WeChat.
Icon/Thumbnail view for result also added in 2.0.
---- Custom search ----
Basic usage.
• Touch "+" icon to create a new search (+ New search).
• You must supply, at least, a folder to search in.
Directories > Add directory (+). Activate Recursion to search in sub-folders also.
• Once configured, perform the search with Search now.
Settings
- Filter
Using filters the search can be constrained to scan a subset of all the files inside selected folders, reducing also the time required to complete the process. Only enabled filters are taken into account, which are checked before the application of the duplicate detection method.
• File name/type filter: Allows to scan specific file types based on its extension, such as images (*.jpg,*.png, ...), videos (*.mp4, *.avi, ...), .... Advanced users can also input Java regular expressions.
• File size filter: Process files whose size lies within a given range.
• Modification date filter: Process files modified before or after a specific date.
- Criteria
Criteria refers to the mechanism that considers whether two files are equal or not.
• Same content detection method: Two files are equal if their content is exactly the same.
• Same name detection method: Two files are equal if their names (or part of it) are equal, regardless of content. ("/dir1/photo.jpg" = "/dir2/photo.jpg").
> First characters: Compare only file name first x characters. (Setting it to 3: "three.avi" = "throw.avi").
> Match case: If enabled, "File.pdf" and "file.pdf" will be different.
Result
Result list contains all duplicates found, select the files you want to remove and touch Delete.
To auto-select all files, or all but one in each group, use Auto-select (next to Delete).
Invert selection ("undo" arrow) selects unselected rows and unselects selected ones.
Exclude (dash) excludes selected files, removing them from the list.
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Antidupes
Copyright (c) 2015 Acelsoft
Disclaimer.
The user of Antidupes can consciously delete files in the device, Acelsoft is not responsible for any data loss due to Antidupes functionality.
Third-party software.
PreferenceFragment.java by Christophe Beyls.
Picasso (Copyright 2013 Square, Inc. / https://github.com/square/picasso) & SnappyDB (Copyright 2013 Nabil HACHICHA. / https://github.com/nhachicha/SnappyDB) are licensed under the Apache License 2.0:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Security & authenticity
Security rating: Trusted
Signing certificate
Certificate issued to “Acelsoft”The developer's name — though anyone can put any name in a certificate.
Store checks and file details
Developer signature verifiedOct 19, 2016
Antivirus scan passedJun 17, 2019
Signed byCN=Acelsoft, OU=Mobile, O=Acelsoft, L=Earth, ST=World, C=US
Uploaded by “catappult”Platinum tier · 1,377 followers · uploading since 2018
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Permissions (4)
Antidupes Duplicate Searcher requests 4 permissions, 2 of them sensitive.
Antidupes Duplicate Searcher APK: questions and answers
Can I install this APK over the version I already have?
Only if it is signed with the same certificate as the copy on your phone and isn't an older version. If Android says “App not installed”, the certificates differ; uninstalling your copy first works but deletes its data unless it is backed up.
Is the Antidupes Duplicate Searcher APK safe?
No one can promise that a file is safe, but some things can be checked. The source store rates this file Trusted. After downloading, check that the file's MD5 is 6dad349b4be7542992a8c01f48bcde88.