 | Aug 6 2009 |
FORMICA I have tried AppZapper, and it's OK. However, when compared with AppCleaner 1.2.2, the difference is STRIKING. AppCleaner does most of the things that all of the reviewers below ask for, it finds ALL of the files associated with the main app you are deleting EVEN FILES THAT ALL OTHER SUCH APPS OFTEN MISS it is totally unobtrusive and doesn't impact your CPU or memory AT ALL as far as I can tell, IT WORKS AUTOMATICALLY when you maybe forget to startup AppCleaner and just toss an app into the trash ITS SmartDelete CATCHES IT AND ALSO AUTOMATICALLY CATCHES ALL ITS ASSOCIATED FILES AND OFFERS TO TRASH THEM FOR YOU! And perhaps most amazing is that it is so superior to all other such apps but is FREE, FREE, FREE, FREE, FREE! If you don't believe me, just check out the comments and reviews on AppCleaner's MacUpdate.com (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/25276) and VersionTracker.com pages (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32740&mode=feedback). That level of user satisfaction is far, far higher than all other such apps, illustrating that people love it for all its capabilities and performance not just its price (which, again, is FREE!). When you try AppCleaner, set the preferences to "Protect launched apps," "Protect default apps," and "Enable 3D transitions," don't forget to turn on SmartDelete, then one-by-one select the "Applications," "Widgets" and "Others" icons at the top of AppCleaner's main window, and with each one select the "Options" menu (in the Menubar) then "Select All" to instruct AppCleaner to protect all those apps, widgets and other resources from being accidentally deleted, then you can uncheck one-by-one all the ones that you don't want AppCleaner to protect. Trust me, you'll love this app with it set this way! Enjoy! (Oh, and BTW, I am in no way affiliated with the makers of AppCleaner I don't even know them. I just LOVE IT when truly great software is made available for FREE, and I feel such magnanimous developers should be promoted whenever possible, even when it's a bit annoying (as this comment is because it's in another app's MacUpdate space).
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 | Aug 4 2009 |
ICONZ113 time to move on ppl, appzapper is finished, no update in over 3 years lol. a shame too, i liked it
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 | Apr 25 2009 |
SITTING IN THE SUN No longer working. you get spinning ball saying processing but that is, will now do this for hours. was a very good program till now.
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| May 8 2009 |
SPRINGHEELMAC Works great for me. I'm using 10.5.6 on a PowerPC 1.42 GHz eMac. Using it in conjunction with AppTrap (found here for free) is awesome. Finds EVERYTHING. I always do a Spotlight check after, but more often then naught, I'm good to go.
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| May 9 2009 |
SITTING IN THE SUN Had email back from developer, working on a fix, seems this effects some machines and not others. No timescale for fix given.
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| Apr 9 2009 |
PENJOE Will this app ever be updated? I crashes occasionally for me.
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 | Aug 22 2008 |
JEEPEE Before you buy this, be aware that this program has not been updated for 2 years! It's easy to say: "Upgrades for life" then... Don't buy this, there are other programs that are free or more worth buying!
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| Apr 17 2008 |
RALPHMWHITE3 Does anyone know what to do when AppZapper (1.8) sticks in "Processing" when you press the Genie button?
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| Apr 10 2008 |
COOPFLY why hasn't this app been updated for 2 years. They can add a lot of features that the other deleting applications have.
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| Nov 19 2008 |
GRYPHONENT The answer is that they gave away so many copies for free and participated in so many promotiones that it became a joke. People, including myself, had 5+ licenses (though only one serial was actually sent per email). With updates "free for life," the developer has razed the market and moved on. Why update an app if there's no money in it anymore? I've moved on to CleanApp, which is much more advanced than AppZapper.
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| Mar 14 2008 |
EASER I tried this program as well as AppCleaner, AppDelete, and Forklift. I tried all on a program called DiskOrder. Not one of them found the folder in Library/Application support called "LikeMac" which clearly has a folder in it titled "Disk Order." I'll stick to deleting these things manually.
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| Jan 25 2008 |
EVOLVE75 I have the same experience as PumpkinWhite below. I tried uninstalling a program with both AppZapper (got as part of the MH bundle) and Forklift. Forklift consistently finds more application files than AZ. Ended up uninstalling AppZapper (by using Forklift of course).
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| Jan 9 2008 |
PUMPKINWHITE I just received appzapper as part of a bundle. The first thing i did is compare it with the 'Delete App' functionality of forklift. In each and every application i tried, forklift caught more files on my system than appzapper. Sometimes appzapper would miss out a file in 'receipts' folder or sometimes in 'caches' folder and sometimes in both. Considering appzapper is a program dedicated to this functionality, I am pretty surprised by this. If all application deleters out there were missing the same files then I wouldn't have been so harsh on appzapper. But the fact that another application catches extra files every time is inexcusable.
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| Nov 21 2007 |
SYHARRIS AppZapper is not totally reliable. As I have found after using AppZapper for a while, now, it will NOT always remove every last file of all apps. After using AppZapper, I've always rechecked with EasyFind (available here at MacUpdate) to see if all files of my deleted app have, in fact, been removed, and have found that a fair amount of time they have not. But, then, there are no application deleting apps currently available, that I can find, that are totally reliable. Your best bet would be to just use EasyFind to delete your applications and their files. It takes a bit longer than using AppZapper but EasyFind IS about as good as it gets for locating/deleting files. Yes, it's that good....and it's free, too.
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| Nov 10 2007 |
XYZ043 Program hasn't been updated in a year. It's currently not compatible with Leopard and there is no word from the developer when and if there'll ever be a new version. Take your $$$ elsewhere.
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| Aug 31 2007 |
THECAUSE Consider giving the application http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/25276 a whirl. Its free dollars and it has a very clean interface.
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| Aug 27 2007 |
JRWHO Its OK, but it hasnt been updated in almost a year. It seems like its development has stopped, when it needs more features. It does have a great UI though. If youre looking for a better one, go with CleanApp.
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| Aug 6 2007 |
GOLDEN Only ever finds the App itself and the .pkg file. Is oblivious to caches and the other space hogging files that you really want to delete. | |
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| May 26 2007 |
TICE Hmm, I paid for the app but appdelete does the job as well (or as bad) as appzapper for free: After installing Dr. DivX and the DivX codecs including two apps (DivX Converter.app, DivX Player.app) Appzapper doesn't find the folder Dr. DivX in the application support, and none (N-O-N-E) of the DivX components (Frameworks, Internet Plug-Ins, Application Support, QuickTime, PreferencePanes)!!! Don't spend money on that, it's not worth it
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| Feb 7 2007 |
OLIPOWER A quite overestimated app. It almost never finds all the files related to an app. Even similarly named files, containing the apps name! And ever since I started using my computers non-admin as a standard-user, AppZapper will ask me to write my admin password once or more for each and every app I delete. So whenever I feel like cleaning up my applications folder, I have to sit there and feel like an idiot typing my admin username and password like a zillion-times. Typing it once for the whole batch should be enough.
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| Feb 12 2007 |
FAHLMAN I can guarantee you that you don't want your standard user account to have the ability to delete files from the locations where AppZapper is deleting these files. If you were smart you would use Fast User Switching to log in to your Admin account and delete the application you needed deleted and then use FUS to switch back to your standard account. You want the security of a standard account but the power of a admin account? You can't have it both ways.
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| Feb 25 2007 |
OLIPOWER Thank you for your words. But please read my last line again: "Typing it once for the whole batch should be enough." Of course I wanna type my password, but not 30 or 40 times to delete 20 apps! Pretty repetitive task. I could, like you say, log into my admin account, delete the apps I would like to delete. However, that's not clever, as that would not get rid of the user-related files, them being in my normal user-account! I guess the purpose of AppZapper is to get rid of all the app-related files right? Then your solution is a bit half-hearted.
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| Jan 2 2007 |
ESPIRIDION Are people these days satisfied with such mediocrity? Ive tried to use AppZapper a few times, and each time its performance is flawed. 1. It has identified for deletion applications that are unrelated to the application I want to delete. 2. It has only partially identified the files associated with the application I want to delete. 3. The Genie tells me its been 5 years and 6 years since I used two applications when the truth is that I have used them within the past 6-12 months. An application I used today -and I use it daily- is shown as being used one week ago. AppZapper also indicates I have not used a program in 10 years. I did not even have my G5 ten years ago! Although Im a registered user, I prefer to use Tinker Tool System which provides more information when one wants to uninstall an application, or FileBuddy which identifies associated files more thoroughly than AppZapper. Even doing a Spotlight search would be better than using AppZapper.
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| Dec 12 2006 |
DANIELANDREWS Great app - sadly, I'm not able to use ZapGenie, though. It crashes every time I try to launch that part of the program.
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| Dec 11 2006 |
SCHMELDING Unexpectedly moved my ENTIRE Applications directory to the Trash and started to delete it. This was after checking ONLY the items I wanted removed and double checking that those were the only items I wanted removed. So, now I have to reinstall my OS from scratch. Way to go, AppZapper.
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| Dec 12 2006 |
ST00P!D M0NK3Y Well considering that it moves everything to the trash and you have to empty the trash in order to remove the apps, it would be completely your own fault for having to reinstall your OS. Try thinking and observing the situation before giving an app one star because of your own mishaps. You could've very well moved the apps back because AppZapper moves them to the trash. It does not delete everything permanently. This is so in case you do something drastic, you can undo the changes.
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| Dec 12 2006 |
ST00P!D M0NK3Y And another thing...this version of AppZapper says "You can now UnZap apps in case you accidentally remove something" -- You either didn't review this version or you simply didn't know that the option was there.
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| Dec 12 2006 |
ANDRES SKL In fact, you're using (or reviewing) v1.8, that means, that you were able to undo the mistake YOU made yourself. So, i put ONE STAR to you, not to the app which is FIVE STARS to me.
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| Dec 11 2006 |
NONEO I'm very pleased that authent. is asked for non admin accounts this was a must! Thank you, now it's real, love it! ; )
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| Dec 11 2006 |
MOMIJIGARI Easy to use, and excellent performance. It finds the files that are scattered all over my harddrive, and zaps them to kingdom come - but not until I have the chance to verify it is what I want. Yes, there is a small fee and it is well-deserved. I registered an early version, and have been able to upgrade for free ever since. What astonishes me are the numerous posts linking to other apps. Do you think other people can't search for themselves if they aren't happy with *this* app? A tad insolent, imo.
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| Dec 11 2006 |
ORION MK. V Works flawlessly and well worth the modest price.
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| Dec 11 2006 |
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| Dec 9 2006 |
MIKE RATT A simple test: http://tinyurl.com/yeaohm 1) AppZapper results the most clear and reliable unistaller of the group: 4 Files 2) uApp and AppDelete: 1 File. AppDelete don't show any info about the files (you have to look inside the Trash!)
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| Dec 8 2006 |
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23414 much better and it's free
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| Dec 8 2006 |
MARIUS_TH not as good yet, but unarguably free
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| Dec 6 2006 |
JEEPEE I hope AppZapper will log changes in the future, so that it really finds all files, like CleanApp, UnInstaller and Yank do. Now AppZapper only find files by searching for the right name. I love AppZapper, but I really mis that and it keeps me from using it (I have a license). I use CleanApp instead and will buy it, if AppZapper stays this way. :-(
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| Nov 25 2006 |
//IDN Absolutely fabulous, one of the must-haves for OS X.
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| Oct 27 2006 |
CARDBOARD CANARY I downloaded the AppZapper trial, and it works very nicely. The drag and drop interface is very quick and easy, and the program seems to succeed in finding files related to the unwanted program and getting rid of them. The price seems fair, but I hardly ever seem to have the need to fully uninstall a program, simply because I don't try out a ton of new software. So, for me, it doesn't quite seem worth the money, but if you find yourself frequently trying and deleting new applications, this might be very useful for you.
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| Oct 26 2006 |
NORAA Any change of getting a version that works with OS versions prior to 10.4? I know a lot people (myself including) using 10.3, or even 10.2 Awesome program though, it works great on my machine with 10.4!
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| Oct 5 2006 |
JAZZADDICT The fact that an .app which is used to wipe out other .apps has been one of the most linked to and talked programs in the past few months is kind of ironic. I mean... it's even created its own verb. I don't uninstall applications... I Zap them! I have also adopted the word into my everyday vocab. I don't dump girlfriends... I Zap them! Perferences and all. I've noticed I download much more freeware/demoware since buying this .app. Great application... or should I say anti-application.
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| Sep 14 2006 |
MACTICK Has anyone ever gotten ZapGenie to work? I have had AppZapper since version 1.5. I now have (and use, successfully) version 1.7. ZapGenie, on the otherhand, crashes every time I try to use it. The crash has been occurring sooner after starting ZapGenie with each update of AppZapper. My setup: G4 iMac, OS X 10.4.7, 512 MB RAM.
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| Sep 5 2006 |
SCOTTJL An essential application for any Mac user. Easily make sure you've removed all traces of an application. Top-notch simple UI, drag and drop!
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| Sep 5 2006 |
TALLMEN AppZapper simply does what it says it will do. I like trying out different apps and then wind up trashing most of them. This app is a treat to use and saves time looking through the Library for support and pref files, etc. Yea!
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| Sep 5 2006 |
TALLMEN AppZapper simply does what it says it will do. I like trying out different apps and then wind up trashing most of them. This app is a treat to use and saves time looking through the Library for support and pref files, etc. Yea!
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| Jul 9 2006 |
JOBBY Nifty, but it doesn't seem to get PDF Services - I zapped the trial of VoodooPad Pro and my PDF menu still had "Save to VoodooPad" in it afterwards.
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| Jun 30 2006 |
JAZZADDICT I like how it indexes pref panes, widgets, and internet plug-ins. Though some people might find this useless because they are confident that they can easily zap .apps via a spotlight search and draging to trash, for others who are more paranoid, this works. This .app does what it is meant to do well. Period. Warning: If you attempt tp Zap Appzapper with Appzapper you will be sucked into a worm hole and get spit out in the body of John Malkovich.
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| Jun 28 2006 |
BILLY RAY VALENTINE Really impressed with the updates. Glad to see that the Sparkle updater framework was added. (that's great as well) :) Little bug report for 1.6.0: Application menu > Check for Updates.... should have 3 periods, not 4 ;-) Keep up the fantastic work.
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| Jun 26 2006 |
JAKOB WELLS It's about time updating got integrated; what a wonderful, solid product!
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| Jun 26 2006 |
DENNISG I've been reading about AppZapper for months now, and it always intrigued me. When I saw this latest update (1.6.0), I decided to give it a try. I've got one word to describe my experience so far: wow! This is, quite possibly, the most intuitive, simple to use, and effective utility I've ever seen. Congratulations to the programmers. After one test-zap, I'm hooked.
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| Jun 26 2006 |
BUBBAMAC It would be nice if the genie showed you how much space was being taken up by each app and their associated files. Since this would take longer to process, it might be an option button within the genie.
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| Jun 26 2006 |
MARSONIST I also had problems getting my registration key, only to find that my junkmail filter had filtered it.... try taking a look in your spam box
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| Jun 22 2006 |
WITHAPLOMB like a previous comment, l paid for appzapper through paypal but have yet to obtain a serial number from the developer. Has my money disapeared into thin air?! after trying out the demo i do think this wonderful little application is worth buying, if you ever get a response!
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 | Jun 23 2006 |
AUSTINSARNER Please email us at support@appzapper.com so we can resolve the issue. Sometimes codes do not go through due to email issues with your ISP, and we are glad to get you your code manually.
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| Jun 15 2006 |
ANDRES SKL I like it, i use it... i found it very useful! now i can download an app, test it and if i dont like it, well, i can erase all of its data with AZ. Congratulations to the Developer, you've had a great idea.
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| Jun 5 2006 |
TAINT Any chance of getting it to delete printer drivers? I would love a nice way to delete all of the pre-installed drivers except for the one I actually use.
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| Jun 15 2006 |
RUMPELSTILTSKIN To remove printers, try Printer Setup Repair.
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| Jun 2 2006 |
GOODENOUGH AppZapper doesn't always remove all the application files, except when the only files are the application file and a preference (.plist) file. For me it has always missed the easy to over look files, such as files in the application support folder. For some reason AppZapper flags the downloaded disk image files for deletion. This could be problem if you are doing a reinstall. For me it is more accurate and a money saver to use Spotlight to search for application files.
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| May 8 2006 |
CALLE I really don't find it useful to download a new AppZapper twice the times I even think about uninstalling something.
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| May 8 2006 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN To be fair, no one is forcing you to download subsequent new versions of this application. If the one you have works for you, you need not download the new one.
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| May 2 2006 |
USER NAME I think it's great to release a new version once a new function is added. Why wait longer especially since the download is tiny and upgrading is a simple matter of overwriting the old version? I hope by the end of the week I get to unistall iTunes' Visualizer as well.
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| May 1 2006 |
AQTINC I found the tool to be mostly effective. As the previous post suggests there are a couple of cases that don't get fully purged. It doesn't cost much money, and delivers some value. It's up to each individual to decide if it's a worthwhile tradeoff. I think it is. What does annoy the snot of me is this inceasant parade of almost weekly updates. Damn, hold the updates and make a x.x release rather than all of these nit-picking updates for some small handful of language updates, and the like. You're driving me crazy here!
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| May 2 2006 |
ROTTWEILER You don't seem to realize that the frequent updates are merely to annoy those with pirated serialnumbers! The small tweeks are insignificant..
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| May 1 2006 |
NARF_TM This application works great for removing application that were installed by drag and drop. It does not work well for applications that were install through an installer. For example, iPhoto is installed through an installer. If you use AppZapper, IPhoto , a plist and a bunch of packages show up in the list. This is very deceiving. You can look at what was installed by these packages in the terminal using lsbom. If you want to look at /Library/Receipts/iPhoto.pkg, you would run 'lsbom /Library/Receipts/iPhoto.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom'. You can see that there were files installed into /Library/Documentation/Applications, /Library/Internet Plug-Ins and many more. For this product to be complete, it should take these files into consideration. I have emailed this company's support many times over the last month and received NO response. I really like the concept of this application, and hope they add support for this in the future.
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| Apr 30 2006 |
ð BORN YETERDAY ð For the convenience of not having to chase down left-overs from every install this tool is well worth it! If your bored and have time to waste, then you can hunt down all the rogue files manually and delete them! But if your daily grind includes the repetitious task of removing left-overs like mine, this will do the trick! Great work, keep it up!
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| Apr 30 2006 |
DP-G4-450GUY This amazes me. Why would anyone pay good money for something that is so easy to accomplish using a small touch of effort? Uninstall an app? Drag the app icon to the trash. Empty trash. Associated files? Do a Find - on both visible and invisible items - on the applications name. The results will provide you with all the associated prefs, app support files, library files, etc. Select, and move to trash. Empty trash. This might be useful for your grandparents, but ..... By the way, I'd be extremely careful using this since the method of testing it and number of testers is not documented well enough to get a safe feeling.
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| May 2 2006 |
IZAC "I'd be extremely careful using this since the method of testing it and number of testers is not documented well enough to get a safe feeling." 50,000 downloads and dozens of positive reviews not enough to assure you that AZ works?
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| Apr 18 2006 |
EMERALDION Amazingly easy to use. Really the uninstaller that Apple forgot to write! It was really worth my money.
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| Apr 17 2006 |
CHIEFTED This is an app that after getting the updates for a new mac and loading LaunchBar (or Butler whichever app launcher I am fond of at the moment) THIS is the app I always (or will be) loading next. I haven't had any problem with it at all. It does get rid of stray files that are left when you drag an app to the trash (the plist leaps to mind right now). It won't let you delete an application that is currently open. I don't know if that is the problems others were having but I haven't encountered an app that AppZapper didn't like to zap. Its stable, easy to use and a great value.
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| Apr 15 2006 |
MARSONIST I have only had this app for a few short days, but it has already proven it's worth. I enjoy taking new programs for a spin but for each one that I keep there are 3 or 4 that I don't. This program allows me to easily delete all of the files associated with these programs and prevents me from cluttering my hard-drive with remnants of old programs. I e-mailed the developer a question concerning the program and was shocked to see a reply in less than 5 minutes. Between the usefulness of the program, frequency with which the developer makes updates, and the speed with which questions are answered, I feel that my money was very well spent.
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| Apr 10 2006 |
ARGLBORPS As someone stated there are still some apps that AppZapper can't successfully zap yet. But I want to put the emphasis on not YET. This app has been getting updates almost every week. If you buy it you get free updates for life and at the current updating pace they'll have covered most, even quite exotic apps (meaning installing their files in exotic places ;-) within a few months. Big thumbs up, this is a very helpful app and it really encourages to try out more software and therefore actually buying more software.
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| Apr 10 2006 |
ORION MK. V Just keeps improving at a quick pace. I, for one, am happy to have it undated often. If I don't feel like downloading right when it comes out I can just wait until the next revision.
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| Apr 10 2006 |
BBQ-ALLSTAR Is it me...or does it seem to others that this app gets updated almost every week... I'm not complaining since a paid subscription allows for free updates...but I'm almost getting tired of downloading and replacing the old app every week. PS Great App!!! :)
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| Apr 10 2006 |
FREAKYFINK I "zapped" GarageBand but later found all of the demo songs and loops (1.5GB!) that were left behind. Same happened when AppZapper ridded me of iDVD but left me with almost a GigaByte of iDVD themes. I've lost confidence that this otherwise lightweight, speedy app targets all associated files for a desired application to be deleted.
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| Apr 10 2006 |
SIMICHAVEL AppZapper requires you to drag and drop the .app, then it goes and finds all related files. But what are you going to do to find all those files related to apps you deleted before you got AppZapper? Were you able to d&d, say, a preference file or some other file related to the app, and AppZapper could still reconstruct all the related pieces and zap them - now THAT would be helpful.
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| Apr 10 2006 |
ARGLBORPS Just reinstall and "rezap" the app.
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| Apr 11 2006 |
SIMICHAVEL I have years' worth of leftovers from apps tried and denied, long since deleted. I would like to avoid redownloading and reinstalling in order to redelete.
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| Mar 29 2006 |
AUSTINSARNER Regarding the comment below, the user was not receiving our emails. We recently got in touch and resolved the situation.
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| Mar 25 2006 |
TOOBEAUCOUP Works great but I'd be careful about parting with my $13 if I were you. I paid for a copy of AppZapper over a week ago and haven't heard a thing. I've sent several emails that are apparently going into a black hole. Definitely not a good customer experience as far as I'm concerned.
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| Mar 13 2006 |
HUGHDRO A simple "Find" command with the app name will find all files associated with an app. They can then be deleted from within "Find" - and it's free!
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| Mar 14 2006 |
TUNER EQUALIZER Using the Finder's FIND command to delete files is tedious and error-prone. App-Zapper has found a niche.
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| Mar 13 2006 |
JETSGO This application is great for quickly removing a new program you just wanted to test. It almost always finds the associated preferences and support files, removing them is simple. One new feature I would like to see is the introduction of a contextual menu that opens AppZapper. Then I might fork over the $13 USD (a bit expensive, I might add).
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| Mar 13 2006 |
XBOXDRUGGIE $13 is expensive? Are you joking... I feel $13 for this great utility that is stable, accurate, easy to use and just all around impressive is well worth the asking price. Think about it for a few minutes... yea new additions, such as your request of a CM item is nice, but as is, this utility is wonderful!
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| Mar 1 2006 |
SZABESZ Anyone seriously trying to remove all that installed stuff should use Uninstaller instead... AppZapper will obviously fail doing that properly, because of its concept of doing it.
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| Mar 8 2006 |
AAH Can you explain this comment? Uninstaller seems to take the "snapshot now, install, snapshot then" approach -- anything changed between snapshots is obviously new. What it will obviously miss is anything changed after the second snapshot -- and if it doesn't actually *do* a second snapshot, you're in even worse luck, since every change since the initial installation is marked as a new file (correct me if I'm wrong, please). AppZapper takes a programmatic approach -- potentially imperfect, but also potentially perfect, and in either case *much* faster than the Uninstaller approach.
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| Mar 10 2006 |
SZABESZ "AppZapper takes a programmatic approach -- potentially imperfect" I think this is the case, as reported by others. You cannot find installed files without registering them during the install or right after the install process. Of course you can write algorithms to hunt for them, but it cannot be perfect. Uninstaller is slow of course because on the seer number of files an OS X volume can contain. And taking snapshots is the user's responsibility of course. But this can at least find all the files installed in case it is user properly. (How are you going to delete with AppZapper the kernel xtension installed by Virtual PC, for example?) Somebody should combine "fseventer" and "Uninstaller" and Mac users would get a fast solution. I wish I had time to develop that.....
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| Feb 28 2006 |
RYBU03051 Can AppZapper Zap itself when I want to remove it from my machine???
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| Feb 28 2006 |
AUSTINSARNER Yeah, but you'll tear a hole in the space time contiuum ending all life as we know it.
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| Feb 28 2006 |
DIGITALBATH That's the best reply from a developer I've seen yet.
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| Mar 6 2006 |
TAKAAKI I had the same problem with yours. I tried to zap AppZapper with AppZapper, but it wasn't successful. Now I'm seriously thinking about puchachacing another copy of this cool application to delete the current one. Is there anyone who tried in this way? Some input is welcome.
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| Feb 22 2006 |
MITCH_DE App fings more , BUT: I checked removing Q (PC Emulator). It shows ALL QuicktimeXXX.pkg in /Library/receipts/ !! Thats wrong, sorry.
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| Feb 28 2006 |
SUBLINEAR I've noticed this as well (some of what it suggests you remove may b unrelated files, as you pointed out) but 95% of the time it does a swell job. It should be noted that AppZapper doesn't just "zap" all of the files it finds (including unrelated ones) -- it presents users with a list of files before zapping them, and you can easily unselect the unrelated ones. As a power user I like AppZapper because it saves me time (by not having to find all of the files to delete myself, as I've done in the past). I don't think its ready for primetime yet though (like say, users like my mom) due to issues like this one (she would have screwed up her Quicktime installation).
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| Feb 10 2006 |
JAANPATTERSON Have you thought about the option to implement the option to access this application with Administrator's Privileges and User Name, so that if a Admin uses a standard account, still can use your really cool app also, without having empty app folders left! It's so nicely designed and so beautiful to handle it's a real cool thing, even though I am a Power User, I love this sweet thing! So please think about these "power users" and the Admin PW story, or please tell me what you think. Otherwise musthave!
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| Feb 13 2006 |
JAANPATTERSON I am a little disappointed about these guys, they have never answered on of my emails, regarding some simple questions, even offering a translation has not been a reason to yet respond! I am not sure if the support email works!
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| Feb 15 2006 |
JAANPATTERSON finally got in touch with the developer! Thanks man! Great Update!
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| Feb 8 2006 |
KIDDAILEY Wow! *Great* interface design. Very easy to use. It often fails to remove apps completely though, because it appars to only be searching for matching filename data. It won't find installer packages if they are in the library/receipts folders, or any special hidden files or symlinks that the app may have created either for example. And of course, I also wish taht it would allow me to drag a receipt package into it and have it scan the receipt to find files to remove in addition to scanning for matching files. If those two things are added to this app, I will *definitely* be purchasing it.
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| Feb 14 2006 |
BRUCE_Y Now those are two good suggestions, kiddailey. I'd encourage you to post/email them to the authors, through their website, or email: support@appzapper.com I have sent a few comments to them for improvements, and the more good suggestions they get, from different folks, the better the appzapper will become. :^)
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| Feb 14 2006 |
KIDDAILEY Thanks for the suggestion. Done :)
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| Feb 8 2006 |
ORION MK. V Evolving quickly and a MUST for people who install/try many apps.
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| Jan 26 2006 |
BILLY RAY VALENTINE Great app, stable, easy to use, and very friendly developers ;-) Thanks, keep up the nice work.
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| Jan 26 2006 |
PETER DAUGULIS This is definitely a must have thumbs up app from developers Brian and Austin. Like most OSX users who have grown comfortable with their system, they start to muck around with installing every new app that comes out. They (we) soon realize that, like most of them, they end up in the Trash. Great, but as we all now know, thats not the end of them. Fortunately, NOT like Windows, the remenants are usually folders and simple preferance files, help files
.Royal Pain to delete by hand. AppZapper to the rescue. I have used it a multitude of times, first on some old secondary hard drive apps I know I will never use, and then on some main stream apps that have become out dated. Fast, simple, thorough
. and safe. You are always in control with a simple check box away of NOT deleting something. You can also configure appzapper to keep its paws off some critical apps for the just in case approach. The addition of a log to follow what appzapper has done is also a great perk. Its interface is as simple, uncluttered and as straight forward as you want it to be.
and here is another app that Apple may hopefully swallow (incorporate) up in its next OS release and compensate Brian and Austin with a 60 foot yacht and then some
. Good work guys!!!
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| Jan 26 2006 |
MATKAM I prefer DesInstaller, which actually removes all the files created by an installer by reading the receipt. This seems to only be good for removing files left after a program is run.
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| Jan 26 2006 |
IDJSTER I can drag an application to the trash. I can find an assumed .plist file in the prefs folder. I can check for a cache or files in the Application Support folder. I can do all this and it has taken me more time than I like to think to uninstall apps that I've decided to try out and then have decided to trash. This application makes it so simple and so quick. This is absolutely brilliant! I only had to use it twice to decide that I had to register it. What a great, simple idea. Yes, there's a chance it might miss something, but there's a greater chance that I will, so AppZapper gets the nod. Wonderful work!
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| Jan 25 2006 |
MACUSR Very nice app. Got it for $9.95 after the MacWorld event using MacGrab.
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| Jan 18 2006 |
DYREFOTO This is one of the best app I have ever tryed.
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| Jan 17 2006 |
SHAWNYQ I think it's funny that they're deleting their own software in the screenshot. Application suicide.
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| Jan 17 2006 |
JEGO haha true :D
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| Jan 17 2006 |
ORION MK. V Not totally comprehensive, but works fine for "most" smaller apps and is fast. Handy for trying out demos, shareware, etc.
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| Jan 17 2006 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Yes, due to this app I may even start trying out more softwares listed here at MacUpdate.
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| Jan 6 2006 |
LOUDESTNOISE While I truly love the zapping noise it makes, I think the price and the fact that spotlight can do the same thing keeps me away.
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| Jan 7 2006 |
LIN.WEN I've seen a lot of buzz about AppZapper and have tried it. It seems simple and of course looks great. I was wondering about the Spotlight-as-challenger issue as well. I like to do my own research, so I'll follow up with that. In the meantime, I found somebody who blogged what he found when testing AppZapper about Spotlight. http://www.insidestretch.com/2006/01/04/appzapper/
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| Jan 5 2006 |
FRANKKO1 For basic apps I guess it works, but you can just save yourself the $13 and use Spotlight. For more complex apps (FCP, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office) AppZapper doesn't come close to catching all the files used by the target apps, so you're better off using Spotlight (all AppZaper found for Entourage was the app, while Spotlight at least found the Entourage files in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data). And I don't know if it's a flaw with the app or a design decision, but AppZapper doesn't seem to check for files outside of your user directory and the /Applications directory (in other words, it doesn't appear to look in /Library/Application Support/ or /Users/Shared/, where Macromedia and Apple put a bunch of files). If you want to save youself $13, keep in mind that for apps by some of the "better" developers (like Panic), look for stuff in Applications/, ~/Library/Application Support/, and ~/Library/Preferences. Or just use Spotlight. If you're trying to clean up apps that install files in non-standard locations, AppZapper won't do much good, I'm afraid. And how do you know if the app you're trying to trash installs files in non-standard locations? Good question. Unfortunately, AppZapper isn't the answer. At least not yet.
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| Jan 5 2006 |
ULRIK Crap App. Nothing but a spotlight search for a perf. app. and cache file with the same name. If you change the spelling of the app if finds nothing.
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| Jan 4 2006 |
MACOSURFER Awesome app! I would recommend this to all Mac users.
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| Jan 4 2006 |
GLENNAWOLSEY Review here: http://www.macsnpods.com/index.php/weblog/comments/appzapper/
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| Jan 4 2006 |
SEMIOTICMONKEY quoting what others already said, in this form it don't catch: Application Support Files It is faster and more comprensive to search in Finder the junk to move away. Save your money. Sorry.
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| Jan 4 2006 |
GRYPHONENT AppZapper is a nice application that eventually addresses a long-standing problem with MacOS X: deinstallation. However, AppZapper does not do more than searching for associated files that bear the same name as the application dragged onto it. For example Adobe Photoshop will only show the files that bear the words adobe and photoshop. Pretty much the same result you will get through the finder. Any file that is installed and does not bear the programs name is neglected... which are unfortunately quite a lot of files when you install Adobe Photoshop. Some of them dont have adobe or photoshop in their name, which means that AppZapper wont list them. Having said that, heres what AppZapper should do: run in the background and track files installed through an application or installer, then keep internally a list of those files and remember that list until the time comes to deinstall the program (smartly cross-referencing whether any of the files is also used by another program). As it stands, this is an expensive gimmick that is not addressing an obvious problem. Give it a test run and judge for yourself.
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| Jan 4 2006 |
JAKOB WELLS The one app, you're sure not to zap.
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| Jan 4 2006 |
SEPTIMUS Nice app but does not what it says: "Applications install preferences, caches, and other support files throughout your computer that take up space and generate clutter." Like Epson Scan software for example, comes with some color profiles for a handful of scanners and App Support extensions "EPSON USB Scanner" and "EPSON FW Scanner" which AppZapper doesn't zap. Up til now it only found the related prefs file of any given app. Maybe this will be improved in the future.
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| Jan 4 2006 |
IPHILLIP Of course, OS X should have this functionality built in, but until then this little app is a life-saver. If you can't resist trying every intesting looking shareware app out there, then AppZapper is an essential.
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| Jan 4 2006 |
SALAMI Nice APP however allowing five usages for free evaluation is not within the definition of SHAREWARE. The price is good as is the application but this application should definitely be catagorized as COMMERCIAL.
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| Jan 4 2006 |
JEGO Looks very nice, only played with it for a little. Great Application.
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| Jan 4 2006 |
SCOTT15 Take about a cool application. I download stuff all the time from MacUpdate. Usually I end up going thru and removing all the files it puts on my system myself. That takes time that it shouldn't. Take about an application that is needed, apple should ship something like this on the system.
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| Jan 4 2006 |
MDAMLI At last! The application OS X is in lack of! For someone addicted to MacUpdate as I am, this application is *perfect* It finds preference files, application supports and so on that you normally don't look up and delete. Many people think you can uninstall an application by just dragging the .app into the trashcan, but truth is you have to look up Application Support, Preferences and so on, and this application does it for you. I'd say it's well worth the money. Five stars out of everything, although I can't back up the stability as I haven't used it long enough to check for crashing issues (none yet though! ;) ). An application everyone should have. At last a program that actually has a use other than being neat :)
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