BleachBit
BleachBit deletes unnecessary files such as cache and cookies to enhance privacy and disk space efficiency on Linux and Windows. It supports numerous applications including web browsers, office suites, and multimedia tools.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Blackberry
- PortableApps.com
- Flathub
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- Ad-free
- File Shredder
- Selective Wipe
- Delete Temporary Files
- Portable
- Works Offline
- Multiple languages
- No Tracking
- Dark Mode
- Works in a terminal
- Disk Maintenance
- No registration required
- Photo Recovery
- Command line interface
- Recover Corrupted Files
- NTFS Partition Recovery
Tags
- Remove Junk Files
- Web Cache
- Disk Cleaner
- delete-unnecessary-files
- temporary-files
- Cache
BleachBit News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about BleachBit
Cleaning software BleachBit 5.0 adds security upgrades, cleaner enhancements, and moreBleachBit 5.0 has arrived with a suite of improvements aimed at delivering a stronger, more reliabl...
- POX published news article about BleachBit
Popular system cleaner BleachBit releases version 4.6.0 with many enhancementsBleachBit, the well-known free and open source system cleaner, has announced the release of its lat...
Recent activities
- sebastianpaczoski updated BleachBit
TheEmperorArt added BleachBit as alternative to Ashampoo WinOptimizer
TheEmperorArt added BleachBit as alternative to DoYourData Super Eraser- git-legend liked BleachBit
TheEmperorArt added BleachBit as alternative to Donemax Data Eraser
TheEmperorArt added BleachBit as alternative to Glary Disk Cleaner
TheEmperorArt added BleachBit as alternative to Glary Tracks Eraser
TheEmperorArt added BleachBit as alternative to Aomei Partition Assistant for Cleanup
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What is BleachBit?
BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain privacy, and remove junk.
Rid your system of old clutter including cache, cookies, Internet history, localizations, logs, temporary files, and broken shortcuts.
Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 
Adobe Acrobat Reader, APT, Bash, 
Beagle, 
Chromium, Epiphany, 
Mozilla Firefox, Flash, GIMP, Google Chrome, Google Earth, Internet Explorer, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org, Opera, RealPlayer, Safari, Second Life viewer, 
Skype, VIM, XChat, Yum, and more.
BleachBit has never bundled any junk like browser toolbars.
BleachBit information
Developed by
Andrew Ziem Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.4Alternatives
156 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Categories
OS & Utilities, System & Hardware, Security & PrivacyGitHub repository
- 4,125 Stars
- 313 Forks
- 330 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Open source app Bleachbit is works wonders for removing all kinds of residual files and other traces of activity on your Windows or Linux computer. It is therefore a privacy- and security-enhancing tool. Security researcher Bruce Schneier, who handled some of the leaked Snowden files, has used Bleachbit (amongst other things) to keep his computer clean and secure against NSA spying.
Bleachbit is also allegedly the app Hillary Clinton (or her staff) used to erase those infamous emails. Hillariously (pun partially intended), during one of the 2016 US presidential debates, Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of "bleaching" her emails, calling it "a very expensive process".
Rest assured that Trump made that up: Bleachbit is open source, free, and costs nothing to use. Oh, and also you don't have to pay for it. (Except perhaps that its use might attract misleading statements from Donald Trump.)
It does not work for M1 macbooks. bummer
Works good. Use it.
BleachBit is, in my opinion, the best system cleaning software out there. It’s open-source, completely free, and very effective. However, it would be great if it included a few more features, such as a cookie whitelist option and the ability to skip wiping free disk space when using an SSD. Advanced users can make it even more powerful by adding the “winapp2.ini” list — but that’s only recommended for experienced users.
BleachBit's custom cleaner system is a bad joke. No UI, no error messages, just XML raw-dogging and silent failure and missing cleaners if you don't pet it exactly the way it wants you to. The "Hide irrelevant cleaners" setting sometimes just hides your work instead of telling you why.
You can't whitelist cookies. The default cleaners for some browsers (e.g. Brave) are mysteriously duplicated.
Variable expansion is flaky as hell. It sets weird permissions on its own AppData folder, for no good reason.
If you want a cleaner you can actually configure without losing your mind, run. This tool is a steaming pile of XML hell, horrible UX, and false hope.
BleachBit? More like BleachMyPatience. Avoid.
If you can't whitelist cookies, it just isn't a great cleaner.
You can't whitelist cookies? 🙁 Hmmm!
CCleaner was good. Then it got bundleware, then got bloated. It just lost its charm. Avast has ruined it.
BleachBit, on the other hand, is a privacy respecting and open source cleaner. It does a really good job at performing a deep clean and empowers you to be selective in removals. The file shredding is another brilliant component.
This belongs in your OS cleaning toolkit. It does exactly what it says on the tin.