BleachBit
Cleans files to free disk space and to maintain privacy
- Free • Open Source
- System Cleaner
- File Shredder
- Disk Usage Analyzer
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Blackberry
- PortableApps.com
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.
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BleachBit information
- Developed byAndrew Ziem
- LicensingOpen Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.3
- Alternatives149 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 2,337 Stars
- 234 Forks
- 226 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- System Cleaner
- Disk Usage Analyzer
- delete-unnecessary-files
- Web Cache
- Remove Junk Files
- Cache
- temporary-files
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.)
Bleachbit is able to go very deep and will delete a lot of things you wouldn't even know your computer keeps. I have never encountered any situation in which data has been deleted I didn't want it to. It does not break your registry or similar. It has also solved problems when not being able so install certain software. A second feature besides just cleaning your system is that you are able to "shread with bleachbit" which will delete files and its digital footprint on your hard drive by changing its name and then deleting again. I recommend it to all my customers and friends.
Couldn't install or run it under Windows 11. Install got stuck in a command window and run just said it was starting but it never started.
Really useful and extensible tool, free as in freedom.
A fantastic piece of software, for Spanish speakers I want to mention that I hadn't come across a better free program that carried out a comprehensive cleaning job. Let's support open source projects.
Una chulada de software, los de habla hispana les comento que no había encontrado un mejor programa gratuito que realizara un trabajo completo de limpieza. Apoyemos los proyectos opensourse
True deletion, FOSS, what's not to love?
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