FAQ

Cleaner-App is a tool to free up disk space on a Mac. It finds and cleans up junk files (app caches, logs and browser caches), duplicates, downloads, installation files, screenshots, same name files, photo series and the files that take up the most space on your disk.

Cleaner-App has both Free and PRO modes.

You can use Free Cleaner-App mode to:

1. Clean up junk files: application logs, application caches and browser caches
2. Find the largest files, downloads, installation files, screenshot files, duplicate files, same name files and photo series files
3. Preview all the files found by the app
4. Remove the unneeded biggest files, downloads, installation files
5. Scan disk or folder mounted to your Mac

You can use PRO Cleaner-App mode to:

1. Do all the tasks available in the free mode
2. Remove screenshots, duplicate files, same name files, photo series files

Cleaner-App works on macOS 11 Big Sur or later, on Macs with Apple silicon or Intel processors.

Junk files are temporary files that apps and browsers leave on your Mac: application logs and crash reports, application caches and browser caches. Cleaner-App shows them in the Junk Files view of the Overview, with the size of each category, and removes them in one step.

Yes. Apps rebuild their caches when they need them, and logs only matter when you investigate a past problem. Right after a cleanup, some apps and websites open a little slower while they rebuild their caches. Cleaner-App lists every file in the Confirm Removal window before removal, and with the Move to Bin method you can restore files from the Bin.

Apps keep writing caches and logs while you use them, so new junk files appear over time. Run the cleanup in the Junk Files view whenever its size grows.

In the Largest Files section, you will find a list of files that take up most space on your Mac. These files are sorted by size, so you can find out the bulkiest content and organize it to free up more disk space on your Mac.

In the Downloads section, you will find a list of all downloaded files from the Internet. Most of these files are installations, email attachments which you likely need only once. So you can preview these files and remove unneeded ones.

In the Installation Files section, you will find all the types of files, which are used to install a program on a Mac. Commonly, they have .dmg, .pkg, or .zip extensions.

Within the Screenshots section, you will find all the images of the display you have made on your Mac. You can preview each file, reveal it in Finder, rename or save to a particular folder. All the screenshots you do not need anymore, you can remove.

Duplicate files are files with absolutely identical content. Duplicates can have different names but they have the same extension, size and data. In the Duplicates Files section, you can find and remove useless copies of any file type (music, movies, documents, pictures, archives and so on.)

In the Same Name Files section, you can preview files that have identical names. These files can have different data, but you duplicated their names. This fact may cause inconvenience when you are searching for your files. So rename your files or find duplicates with even the same name and then remove one of them.

In the Photo Series section, you will see a group of pictures taken at the same date and time with an interval of 60 seconds. Cleaner-App uses photo data, taking into account the camera used, date, time of the picture and so on. Images may look similar or different. Thus, you can view each photo and select the one you want to delete.

Cleaner-App is a Mac cleanup utility that helps you get more storage space. You can free up as much space as your junk files, duplicates, downloads and unneeded largest files take up. The Overview shows these sizes right after the scan.