Great app, does what it says. Simple efficient.

I appreciate that the developer offers AppCleaner for free. However, it’s not an effective app (not on OS 10.6.8, at least). I compared it against iTrash (a good app that’s well priced) and CleanApp, which just sucks now (it was once the best, but now it’s a hot mess of disparate functions that are already offered for free in other OS X utilities, and its basic uninstall function is crap). AppCleaner failed to find all of the associated files for each of the 4 apps I tested on it — all of which were found handily by iTrash without even using its ‘Expert’ or ‘Ghost’ modes.

There used to be a few other good apps in this category, but some have either been abandoned or were upgraded to no longer work on OS 10.6.8 (like AppDelete and CleanMyMac).

Just like my Mac, it just works! It's a wonderful uncluttered interface that purges the various files, but allows you to see what's being nuked before it happens so you can confirm and verify.

Superb! This gem performs better than any other uninstaller I have used. Well done,developer and thank you!

I've used this app a few times now and I couldn't be happier with it! Of course, the price tag is great ;) but the program is also easy to use and efficient. Definitely makes the transition from PC to Mac A LOT easier! Thank you so much!

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.