After the CCleaner incident, a lot of friends and colleagues asked me a good alternative to the Piriform’s tool.

From my point of view, a good alternative could be BleachBit.

BleachBit is open source, and its designed for Linux and Windows systems.

It wipes clean a lot of applications (including Firefox, Internet Explorer, AdobeFlash, GoogleChrome, Opera, Apple Safari) and includes advanced features like file shredding and the wiping of free disk space.

It also has a command line version, useful for batch cleaning jobs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-y2T8ow0H0

Features

BleachBit has many useful features designed to help you easily clean your computer to free space and maintain privacy.

  • Delete your private files so completely that “even God can’t read them” according to South Carolina Representative Trey Gowdy.
  • Simple operation: read the descriptions, check the boxes you want, click preview, and click delete.
  • Multi-platform: Linux and Windows
  • Free of charge and no money trail
  • Free to share, learn, and modify (open source)
  • No adware, spyware, malware, browser toolbars, or “value-added software”
  • Translated to 64 languages besides American English
  • Shred files to hide their contents and prevent data recovery
  • Shred any file (such as a spreadsheet on your desktop)
  • Overwrite free disk space to hide previously deleted files
  • Portable app for Windows: run without installation
  • Command line interface for scripting and automation
  • CleanerML allows anyone to write a new cleaner using XML
  • Automatically import and update winapp2.ini cleaner files (a separate download) giving Windows users access to 2500+ additional cleaners
  • Frequent software updates with new features

More info and downloads

  • Official website: https://www.bleachbit.org/