BleachBit
Cleans files to free disk space and to maintain privacy
- Free • Open Source
- System Cleaner
- Disk Usage Analyzer
- File Shredder
- 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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- System Cleanup
- Ad-free
- Privacy focused
- File Shredder
- Selective Wipe
- Portable
- Works in a terminal
- Multiple languages
Supported Languages
- English
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Categories
OS & Utilities • System & Hardware • Security & PrivacyTags
- Disk Usage Analyzer
- remove-junk-file
- disk-maintenance
- cache
- temporary-files
- delete-unnecessary-files
- browser-cache
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BleachBit
Summary
Our users have written 37 comments and reviews about BleachBit, and it has gotten 618 likes
- Developed by Andrew Ziem
- Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- Average rating of 4.1
- 138 alternatives listed
GitHub repository
- 1,635 Stars
- 196 Forks
- 196 Open Issues
- Updated Jun 21, 2022
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BleachBit was added to AlternativeTo by AndrewZiem on Jun 1, 2009 and this page was last updated Feb 16, 2022.
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.
Eating my CPU but no window is present. Kinda like a malware, except this pretends it helps you.
great
I was looking for a reliable free & open source alternative to the main function of ccleaner, though I was a little nervous that it would be too technical for me in the settings (since I am still a newbie about much relating to computer software) or erase too much, since 1 reviewer had said that there was no explanation in the settings, but it seemed at least as clear as CC was & it safely cleaned more junk than I realized I had & it finds even more unnecessary junk when the "download & update cleaners from community (winapp2.ini)"are also enabled from options!) + it is free/open source :)
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