6 X Cleanup Tools Compared: Which One Fits Your Job

By Macedona

Updated 09/21/2026

Most people looking for a way to clear an X account are not trying to delete everything. They are trying to delete one specific thing: the posts from a job they left, the replies from an argument they regret, the likes from an account they used differently five years ago.

The tools that dominate search results all promise bulk deletion, which is the one capability every single one of them has. The capabilities that actually separate them sit further down the feature list, and several of them are locked behind a plan tier that the homepage does not mention.

This guide compares six services by the job they are good at rather than by the size of their feature list. Every plan gate, limit and price below was read off the vendor’s own live pages on 21 September 2026, and where a vendor’s own pages contradict each other, that contradiction is reported rather than smoothed over.

Quick Answer: What Is an X Cleanup Tool?

An X cleanup tool is a third-party service that signs in to your X account and deletes posts, replies, reposts or likes in bulk, filtered by rules you set. Most reach your account through X’s API, which can only see your most recent 3,200 posts. Uploading your X data archive is the standard way past that ceiling, and on most services it is a paid feature.

What These Tools Actually Do

The working definition is short: a cleanup tool is software that deletes X content in bulk against rules you set. The concept matters less than the workflow around it. The account owner supplies the input, which is a filter describing what should go, and the output is a deletion run that has to be checked afterwards. The failure mode is the one nobody plans for, which is a rule that catches more than it should. Measurement is part of the job rather than an afterthought, because the business impact of a rule set too wide is losing posts that still earn engagement.

The Simple Version

X gives you one delete button per post. It does not give you a way to select a hundred posts, or every post from 2014, or every post containing a word you no longer want attached to your name. A cleanup tool adds the selection layer that X leaves out. You sign in, you describe what should go, and the tool works through the list.

The Technical Version

Four of the six services here connect through X’s API. You authorise them from X’s own sign-in screen, which means they never see your password, and they inherit the API’s constraints. The most consequential of those constraints is a ceiling on how far back your timeline can be read.

TweetDelete, TweetEraser and Circleboom all state the same figure on their own pages: 3,200 posts. Their proposed fix is also the same, which is to request your data archive from X and upload it, so the tool works from a file rather than from a live timeline lookup. If the phrase means nothing to you, our explainer on what an API is covers why a third-party tool can only see what the platform hands it.

Redact takes a different route. It is a desktop and mobile application that, in its own description, runs its own browser on your computer, opens the platform and deletes content the way a very patient person would. Nothing on its X page mentions a 3,200 ceiling. It talks about rate limits instead, which is the constraint that applies when you are working the interface rather than querying an endpoint.

The Business Version

For an individual, the decision is mostly about how far back the cleanup has to reach and whether it has to keep happening. For anyone running accounts on behalf of a business, two other things matter. The first is whether deletion can be scoped narrowly enough to spare the posts that still earn engagement. The second is whether the tool can be set once and left alone, because a retention rule that someone has to remember to run is a retention rule that stops running. Teams already managing social accounts inside a wider stack should check what their existing tooling covers before adding another subscription, and our guide to social media CRM platforms is the place to start that check.

The Five Cleanup Jobs, and What Each One Needs

Before comparing services, it helps to name the job. Almost every request falls into one of five shapes, and each shape puts weight on a different capability.

Reading the table the other way round is the useful move. If your job is the second row, a service that leads with unlimited bulk deletion is selling you the capability you need least.

Six X Cleanup Tools Compared

1. TweetDelete

TweetDelete is the widest single-account toolkit in this group, and the one whose free tier does the most. Signing in without paying gets you deletion by age or keyword plus likes removal up to the 3,200 ceiling, which covers a large share of casual cleanup requests outright. Its feature list also runs past posts and likes into direct messages, reposts, replies and mass unfollowing, which several competitors here do not touch.

The service is at https://tweetdelete.net.

Best for broad cleanup where the free tier might be enough

The gating is where a buyer has to read carefully. Archive upload, spreadsheet export and deletion by numeric post ID all sit on the paid tiers. The FAQ is explicit that the 3,200 ceiling applies to free and entry-tier users, but not to a paid user working from an uploaded data file.

Recurring tasks are the other paid feature, and they come with a constraint worth knowing before you plan around them: the FAQ states they run roughly every three days and that the interval may vary with service load. You do not pick the cadence. There is also a housekeeping rule that catches people out, which is that the account has to sign in at least once every six months for automatic tasks to keep running.

Plan details, the ceiling and the automatic task interval are stated on the TweetDelete FAQ.

2. TweetDeleter

TweetDeleter is built around looking before you delete. Its search handles date, keyword, content type and media, and the workflow puts the resulting set in front of you rather than acting on a rule you described in advance. For a cleanup where most of the account should survive, that inspection step is the whole point.

Best for a cleanup you want to review first

Two plan facts change how this service should be judged. The private archive, which saves a copy of posts removed through the service, is not included in any plan. It is a paid add-on at $5.99 a month on top of whatever tier you are on. Anyone choosing TweetDeleter specifically to keep a reference copy of deleted posts should price that in.

The second fact is that automatic deletion and automatic unliking sit only on the Unlimited plan. The Advanced plan below it caps deletion at 3,000 posts a month, limits search and unlike to your last 1,000 likes, and reaches 10,000 posts rather than your whole history.

3. TweetEraser

TweetEraser offers the most granular targeting in the group. Alongside the usual age, word and phrase filters it can work by post source and by numeric post ID, and its Advanced plan lets you exclude up to 100 individual posts from a deletion run. That exclusion list is genuinely useful for an account with a handful of posts that must survive a broad sweep.

Best for a broad sweep with specific survivors

One claim needs correcting before anyone buys on it. TweetEraser’s automatic tasks are not scheduled tasks. Its own auto-delete page states that scheduling is not available, and that once a task is activated it runs periodically until you stop it manually. If your requirement is a rule that fires on a date you choose, this is not the service that does it.

Likes cleanup has a firmer boundary here than elsewhere. The likes feature page states that X’s API does not let TweetEraser or any other third-party tool remove likes past the 3,200 cap, and it does not offer the archive as a way around that for likes specifically. Circleboom does, which is the single clearest reason to prefer one over the other on a large like history.

There is also a pricing discrepancy that a buyer should see before committing. The pricing page shows the Advanced plan at $0.26 a day billed monthly, and the Expert plan at $0.36 a day. Those are the published units.

On a 30 day month our own arithmetic puts them near 7.80 and 10.80 dollars, which is a calculation rather than a figure the vendor prints. The FAQ on the same site quotes $3.24 and $3.49 a month for the same two plans. Both figures were live on 21 September 2026. Treat the pricing page as the operative one and confirm at checkout.

4. Circleboom

Circleboom is the archive specialist, and it is also the broadest in what it will remove. Its posts page lists deletion of posts, reposts, replies, likes, bookmarks, direct messages, mentions and quote posts, which is a wider surface than TweetDelete, TweetDeleter or TweetEraser cover.

Best for long histories and large like counts

The filtering is the deepest in the group. Beyond date, keyword, hashtag and media it filters by language, by impression count, and by minimum and maximum engagement across likes, reposts, replies, quotes and bookmarks. Filtering by engagement range is the capability that makes “delete everything from 2016 that nobody interacted with” a rule you can actually express.

For likes, Circleboom names the archive file it reads. Its likes page states that uploading your archive lets you extract the like.js file and list more than 3,200 likes, and the archive cleanup page names Tweet.js for posts. That is the specific difference against TweetEraser described above: both cap live likes at 3,200, and only Circleboom documents an archive route past it.

Two cautions. Circleboom’s free allowance for likes is 50, which is a preview rather than a usable tier. And its recurring cleanup story is thin. Only the archive page mentions automatic deletion after criteria are set. The main posts page describes a filter-then-delete flow with no scheduling at all, and no page names an interval. Anyone buying Circleboom for hands-off maintenance should verify that in the product before paying for a year.

5. Redact

Redact is the outlier, and the difference is architectural rather than cosmetic. It is a desktop and mobile application rather than a web service, and its own how-it-works page describes running its own browser on your computer to open the platform and delete content there. Scanning, filtering and deleting all happen on your machine, and the company states it never receives your credentials.

Best for clearing more than the public timeline

That design explains the coverage. On X, Redact lists posts, replies, reposts, quote posts, likes, direct messages, X Articles, lists and Grok chats. It also explains something no feature table makes obvious: nothing on Redact’s X page mentions the 3,200 ceiling. The constraint it names is rate limiting, and its answer to a long history is a data export upload that speeds the work up rather than reaching content it otherwise could not.

Redact’s free tier covers the last 30 days of content, which is a real if narrow allowance. Premium at $7.99 a month removes the date limit and adds scheduled deletion, and Ultimate at $14.99 a month adds advanced filtering and professional platforms. Scheduling is the most flexible here: the features page describes intervals from every few days to every several months, set by you.

One caveat applies to messages specifically. Redact states that a deleted direct message disappears from your view of the conversation and that other participants keep their copies. That is true of the platform rather than the tool, and it is worth knowing before anyone treats a message sweep as a privacy measure.

6. TweetRemove

TweetRemove is positioned for the simplest case, which is an account with one clear rule such as removing posts past a set age or clearing posts containing selected keywords. Its published description covers filters by age, keyword, type and media, plus archive-based deletion, recurring cleanup and plan-based limits for different cleanup volumes. Where the rule is simple and repeatable, that narrower setup is easier to understand than a full toolkit.

Best for a single repeatable rule, if the service comes back

One thing has to be said plainly. On 21 September 2026 the site returned a 502 Bad Gateway error at every path we tried, checked from two unrelated networks. No page loaded, so none of the capabilities above could be confirmed against live vendor documentation the way every other entry in this guide was, and no price or limit is quoted for it here. Treat the description as unverified and check whether the service is responding before considering it. We have not linked to it for the same reason.

What These Tools Cost

Source note: the prices above were read from the vendor’s own live pages on 21 September 2026, starting with the entry price in the TweetDelete FAQ.

Three caveats belong with this table. TweetDeleter’s private archive add-on is a further $5.99 a month on any tier. TweetEraser quotes daily rates on its pricing page and different monthly figures in its FAQ, and both were live on the date checked. Circleboom names its tiers in its help centre but publishes no figures on the pricing pages we could reach, so no price is reported for it rather than an estimate.

Two patterns are worth reading out of that table. The lowest sticker price is rarely the lowest cost for the job, because the entry tiers at TweetDelete, TweetDeleter and TweetEraser all cap deletions each month in the hundreds or low thousands. A one-off cleanup of a decade-old account tends to need the tier above. And a lifetime licence at $99.99 only pays back against years of use, which is a poor fit for a job most people run once.

API Tools and On-Device Tools Are Not the Same Product

The split that matters most in this group is invisible on any feature comparison, because it is about how the tool reaches your account.

Source note: the API group’s 3,200 figure is stated by TweetDelete, TweetEraser and Circleboom on the pages linked in their sections above, each attributing it to X’s API.

Redact’s on-device model and its rate-limit framing are stated on its how-it-works and X service pages, also linked above. X’s own current developer documentation does not state a 3,200 figure on the user timeline endpoint page, so the ceiling is reported here as the vendors describe it rather than as an independently confirmed platform limit.

Nobody markets this distinction, and it decides more than most feature rows do. A long history on an API tool means requesting an archive, waiting for X to build it, and paying for a tier that accepts the upload. The same history on Redact means leaving an application running.

What These Tools Cannot Do

Deletion is permanent and none of these services can reverse it. TweetDelete states it keeps no record of what it removed and cannot recover anything. TweetDeleter states the same thing in the footer of every page on its site. Circleboom puts it more bluntly on its archive page, which is the right place for it, because archive-driven deletion is where people remove the most at once.

Deletion also does not reach copies. TweetEraser’s own account cleanup page is unusually candid here, noting that X retains posts for a period after deletion and that removed posts may still appear in search results or on web archive sites. Anyone deleting for a reason that matters should understand that a cleanup tool addresses the public timeline, not the wider record.

Rate limits set the pace, not the tool. Redact states that deleting years of history can take hours because platforms limit how quickly content can be removed. The API services inherit the same reality. A tool advertising instant deletion is describing the request, not the completion.

Three of the four API services in this group describe themselves as an official X partner or enterprise developer in page titles or body copy. None of the six publishes a non-affiliation disclaimer. Partner status, where it is real, says something about API access. It says nothing about whether the deletion you are about to run is the one you meant.

Common Misconceptions

Misconception: bulk deletion is the feature that separates these tools. Reality: every service here does bulk deletion. What separates them is filter precision, whether likes have their own cap, whether the archive route exists, and which tier gates each of those.

Misconception: the 3,200 limit is a limit on how much you can delete. Reality: as the vendors describe it, it is a limit on how much of your timeline the API can see. Uploading your archive is the documented route past it on TweetDelete, TweetDeleter, TweetEraser and Circleboom, and Redact does not report the ceiling at all.

Misconception: automatic deletion means you choose the schedule. Reality: TweetDelete runs automatic tasks at a roughly three-day interval it sets, TweetEraser states outright that scheduling is not available, Circleboom names no interval anywhere, and only Redact documents intervals you pick.

Misconception: a free tier means you can do a real cleanup for nothing. Reality: free allowances vary enormously. TweetDelete’s free tier does age and keyword deletion plus likes to 3,200. Redact’s free tier covers 30 days of content. Circleboom’s free likes allowance is 50, and TweetDeleter’s free plan does not delete anything at all.

Misconception: deleting a direct message removes it from the conversation. Reality: Redact states that other participants keep their copies. That is how the platform works, and no third-party tool changes it.

When to Use a Cleanup Tool, and When to Stop

Use one when the volume is past what you would sit through by hand, or when the posts you want gone share a describable property such as a date range or a keyword. Use one also when the account has to stay clean on an ongoing basis, or when the history you need to reach is older than the live timeline will show.

Stop before you start when you are deleting in reaction to something that has just happened. Deletion is not reversible, the archive route takes days because X has to build the file, and a sweep run in a hurry is the one most likely to take posts you wanted. Stop also when what you actually need is a different account. Wiping an account and repurposing it is a real workflow, and several of these vendors name it, but it is a decision about identity rather than a cleanup task.

One more case deserves its own line. If the account is a business asset, deletion at volume affects more than tidiness. Posts carry engagement, links and search visibility, and a broad sweep removes all of it. Anyone clearing an account that content strategy depends on should scope the rule narrowly, and our notes on measuring a social account after a bulk change describe the checkpoint approach that applies here too.

How to Check the Cleanup Actually Worked

Running the job is not the same as confirming it. Four checks cover it.

Source note: the first three checks use X’s own interface. The fourth needs the cleanup tool’s own dashboard, because only the tool reports whether its run finished. The rate-limit pause described in the fourth row is the behaviour Redact documents on its how-it-works page, linked above, and the API services describe the same constraint.

Give the count check a day before trusting it. Several vendors note that deletion speed depends on volume and platform processing, so a count read minutes after a large run will understate the result.

How We Checked These Tools

Every capability, plan gate, limit and price in this guide was read from the vendor’s own live pages on 21 September 2026, and each section links the specific page the claim came from rather than a homepage. Where two pages on the same site disagreed, as TweetEraser’s pricing page and FAQ do, both figures are reported.

We did not buy a plan, connect an X account, or run a deletion with any of these services. Nothing here is presented as a tested result, and no claim about speed, reliability or deletion accuracy is made on our own authority.

Where a vendor asserts something we could not confirm independently, the article says who is asserting it. The 3,200 ceiling is the clearest example, and it is reported as the vendors describe it because X’s current developer documentation does not state that figure on the endpoint page covering user timelines.

TweetRemove is the one entry that could not be checked at all, and the section for it says so rather than repeating claims we could not see. Our full approach to sourcing is set out in our review methodology.

Frequently Asked Questions

These are the questions the comparison above leaves open most often, answered from the same vendor pages.

Can Any of These Tools Delete More Than 3,200 Posts?

Yes, through an archive upload. TweetDelete, TweetDeleter, TweetEraser and Circleboom all support uploading the data file X generates for you, and all of them place that capability on a paid tier. Redact does not report the ceiling and offers a data export upload as a speed improvement rather than a way past a ceiling.

Which One Deletes Likes Past 3,200?

Circleboom is the only one that documents it, by reading the like.js file from your uploaded archive. TweetEraser states explicitly that the API does not permit it for any third-party tool.

Do These Tools Need Your X Password?

Not for the API services. You authorise them through X’s own sign-in screen, which is why the authorisation can be revoked from your X settings afterwards. Redact runs on your device and states that credentials are sent directly to X rather than to the company.

Can Deleted Posts Be Recovered?

No. Every vendor here that addresses the question says deletion is permanent and that they hold no recovery copy. TweetDeleter’s paid archive add-on stores a copy of what it removed, but that is a copy for you rather than a way to restore a post to X.

How Long Does a Large Cleanup Take?

Longer than the marketing suggests. Redact states that years of history can take hours because of platform rate limits, and the API services work within the same constraint. Plan for a run that continues after you stop watching it.

Is There a Free Option That Is Genuinely Usable?

TweetDelete’s free tier is the most capable, covering deletion by age or keyword and likes removal to the 3,200 ceiling. Redact’s free tier is usable for recent content only, at 30 days. Circleboom’s 50 free likes and TweetDeleter’s sign-in-only free plan are previews rather than working tiers.

The Short Version

Pick the cleanup tool that matches the job in front of you rather than the one with the longest feature list. If the job is a full wipe of a long history, the archive route decides it, and TweetDelete, TweetDeleter, TweetEraser and Circleboom all document one. If most of the account should survive, filter precision decides it, and TweetEraser and Circleboom go deepest.

If the problem is likes rather than posts, Circleboom is the only service documenting a route past the 3,200 cap. If the cleanup has to keep happening on a schedule you choose, Redact is the only one that documents intervals you set. If the sweep has to reach messages, lists and other account areas, Redact is again the answer.

It is also a valid outcome to decide that no tool is needed. A handful of posts is faster to delete by hand than to describe as a rule, and a cleanup run in a hurry is the one most likely to take something you wanted to keep.

Related Resources

• Best AI tools for content creation, for the production side of an account you have just cleaned up
• Our affiliate disclosure, covering the commercial links in this guide

Capabilities, plan gates and prices in this guide were read from vendor pages on 21 September 2026 and change without notice. Confirm current terms with the vendor before purchasing.

About the author

Macedona

Macedona is the founder and lead reviewer at SaaS CRM Review, where he has published 175+ in-depth reviews, pricing guides, and comparisons of CRM and SaaS tools. Each review is based on hands-on testing or verified documentation, and every article states clearly which method was used. Pricing and features are checked against official vendor sources, with the verification date noted in the article. Macedona follows a published review methodology and editorial policy. SaaS CRM Review earns affiliate commissions from some links, which never influence ratings or rankings. Read the full affiliate disclosure.

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