A very simple but very useful application for me. Had this for years, it’s as reliable now as its always been.

Nice little App, always liked the Smart Delete function.

However updating to 2.1.0 from 2.0 (and possibly earlier versions) introduces a bug in Smart Delete for Snow Leopard users which prevents it working (at least it did for me), throwing up this error:

The operation couldn’t be completed. (kSMErrorDomainFramework error 3 - The client and tool did not match requirements.)

Obviously I'll email the developer but there's a very simple fix which I have detailed on this page in Troubleshooting just now.

The best free uninstaller. No arguing about that.
But it is worth looking at iTrash. This neat app still finds more related files compared to any other uninstaller available. (and cheap too)

Great little app. I paid for Koingo's Amnesia, and it works well, too. But I think this app is just as good. I recommend it to friends.

I love this app. Really. It is simple, stable and effective. I wish all apps were made this way.

Workaround for bug when updating to 2.1.0

Updating to 2.1.0 from 2.0 (and possibly earlier versions) introduces a bug in Smart Delete for Snow Leopard which prevents it working (at least it did for me) due to authorisation issues. I'll email the developer but here's the fix right now:

For geeks:

Copy this file
/Applications/AppCleaner.app/Contents/Library/LaunchServices/com.freemacsoft.appcleanerd
into this folder /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/
...and authorise everything when prompted. Done

For non geeks:

Right click on the AppCleaner app and select "Show Package Contents"....
In the new folder that opens (showing the innards of the app so don't mess around here!), open the folders "Contents" then "Library" then "LaunchServices" to reveal a file called "com.freemacsoft.appcleanerd" - this needs to be copied to the correct location.

Now open another Finder window at the *top level* of your hard drive by clicking on Macintosh HD (or whatever you call it) in the Finder sidebar... open the "Library" folder you see there and navigate to the folder "PrivilegedHelperTools" inside it. This is where com.freemacsoft.appcleanerd needs to reside but if you already have an older version there, the system won't authorise it to run and you will experience the bug. *Copy* the newer version of "com.freemacsoft.appcleanerd" from "LaunchServices" inside the app contents window to the "PrivilegedHelperTools" window you just opened. Authorise with your Admin credentials when prompted and click "Replace" when asked if you want to replace an existing file with the same name.

That's it - close the windows, open the app and enable Smart Delete in preferences... now you're ready to go.

All in all it will take one minute - much less than it took to read (or indeed write) this advice. Enjoy.

working download link is: http://www.freemacsoft.net/downloads/AppCleaner_2.0.5.zip

This application can only search for related items in the user's library Application Support and Preferences. It cannot find items in the main HD library, invisible items and even items elsewhere in the user's library. Therefore, it is only useful for trashing simple small applications. AppCleaner would have been perfect if it could have searching abilities like the application Find Any File i.e if it could find items related to an application anywhere on the machine and whether visible or not.

Google SketchUp, GraphicConverter, Hugin, iStatPro and Switch - all have items in HD>Library>Application Support. Cenon has items in HD>Library. AppCleaner cannot find these items. It doesn't take Find Any File too long to search all the HD. I use it regularly for trashing applications as it finds all the items, including invisible ones, and then you can drag the items to the trash directly from it's search results window.

I had AppCleaner installed on my MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, but have since uninstalled the application on both computers; now neither computer will sleep automatically (with EnergySaver set to sleep after a certain period of inactivity). I am receiving this message in Console:

06/12/08 2:48:25 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.freemacsoft.appcleanerdaemon[1730]) Exited with exit code: 1

06/12/08 2:48:25 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.freemacsoft.appcleanerdaemon[1730]) posix_spawnp("/Library/Application Support/AppCleaner/AppCleaner Daemon", ...): No such file or directory

This message recurs to the order of 5000 times per day, and I feel quite certain that this is causing my computers to stay awake.

Hopefully there is some resolution available for this problem.

I hope the author of AppCleaner keeps up with this page, because it has been quite difficult to get a response from him through e-mail, but i have a bug report which is as follows:

Under OS X 10.4.11, AppCleaner Version 1.2 does not detect or display
any Widgets under its Widgets section. Furthermore, AppCleaner's
History function does not seem to work at all either, when you click
"Show History..." from the "Window" menu or use the keyboard shortcut
(Apple-L), nothing is displayed. This occurs on an Intel Core Duo
MacBook Pro.

Also, in AppCleaner Version 1.2, under OS X 10.5.3, although the History window is accessible, the Widgets section exhibits the same problem it does on OS X 10.4.11, as it does not seem to detect or display any Widgets. This occurs on an Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook.