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

If you can't whitelist cookies, it just isn't a great cleaner.

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.

Used it on both my windows and lubuntu OS and my god did it cleaned up my windows one to the core! Loved the application! Easy to use and understand which is very valuable when you're interacting with files you don't even know existed.

Bleach Bit is the ultmate open source junk cleaner for windows, no ads no bloat and does what it says it does effectively

After using ccleaner for years and it's becoming more hectic than usual then switch to this app and it's work even better than ccleaner