Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! vs Media Sync (2026)
Detailed side-by-side comparison of two WordPress plugins, based on real-time data from WordPress.org.
Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!
90K+ active installs
Free
Quick Verdict
As of April 2026, Media Sync has a higher user rating (4.7/5 from 82 reviews) while Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! leads in active installations (90K+ vs 40K+). Both are free WordPress plugins. Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! has accumulated 4.5M+ total downloads while Media Sync has 532K+. Media Sync has a higher support resolution rate (50% vs 50%).
Detailed Comparison
| Metric | Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! | Media Sync | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rating | 4.6/5 | ► | 4.7/5 |
| Total Reviews | 746 | ◄ | 82 |
| Active Installs | 90K+ | ◄ | 40K+ |
| Total Downloads | 4.5M+ | ◄ | 532K+ |
| Support Resolution | 50% | 50% | |
| Last Updated | 1 week ago | ◄ | 4 months ago |
| First Released | 2016 | 2018 | |
| Age | 10 years | 8 years | |
| WP Requires | 6.0+ | 5.3+ | |
| PHP Requires | 7.4+ | 7.1+ | |
| Business Model | Free | Free | |
| Latest Version | 7.0.6 | 1.4.9 |
Rating Breakdown
Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress!
Media Sync
Download Trends
Over the past 30 days, Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! averaged approximately 3,744 daily downloads while Media Sync averaged 240.
Recent Reviews
Media Cleaner: Clean your WordPress! Reviews
Does The Job
Simple to use
Just Works
Stunnning plugin that hardly has any false positives. It was great to use. Thanks This topic was modified 6 days, 23 hours ago by Dr. Melvin Temo.
非常好用
不错，操作简单。
Media Sync Reviews
Great Timesaver!
I backed up a site then brought the staging site live, only to find out they’d ‘forgotten’ several important documents that had been on the old site but not the new one. I was able to restore the file
So useful!
The ideal tool for adding media files via FTP to the media library.Thanks a lot to the developer!
Completly hang the admin
The page simply hangs the server, Javascript crash, when it finally works counts are completly off. I’m not trusting this quality of code with my database.
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