AppCleaner - Add/Remove Apps in MacOS

One of the pain points - or, if you prefer, the simplification of the systems with a bitten apple is the simplicity of installing and removing applications.

Well, although installing mainly involves moving the program to the Applications folder, and removing it, moving the program to the trash, unfortunately that’s not all.

The lack of a typical way to uninstall an application means that garbage from programs, that we no longer need, remains on the disk.

For some time I used the AppTrap program, which, working in the background, detected when I moved an application to the trash and asked if I wanted to remove additional remnants of the program.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t perfect and I used it alternately with AppCleaner.

Uninstalling a program using AppCleaner is as easy as moving it to the trash. However, in this case, we open the program window and then move the program we want to remove into it.

AppCleaner analyzes all the leftovers that can be removed along with it. Thanks to this, we can gain valuable disk space by removing garbage. This is especially useful when we have an SSD drive, which is not as capacious as mechanical drives.

The latest update of the program added the option offered by AppTrap, i.e. SmartDelete.

After enabling the SmartDelete option, the program will detect when we throw an application into the trash. At this point, the AppCleaner program window will appear with a suggestion whether we want to remove the remaining “garbage”.

Even though I have this option enabled, I am already used to deleting programs by throwing them into the application window.

The program is free and you can download it from the author’s website.