When you delete an application Hazel will pop up and show you a list of attached files belonging to the deleted app to clean your uninstall more correctly.
To really enjoy the power of Hazel, you will need to progressively create more and more rules to manage each specific kind of file, but this process is slow, quite annoying when you have many similar rules, and can only be learned on the way, as you find new uses for it.
To really enjoy the power of Hazel, you will need to progressively create more and more rules to manage each specific kind of file, but this process is slow, quite annoying when you have many similar rules, and can only be learned on the way, as you find new uses for it.
Its in-file search criteria allows it to extract dates from files (e.g., to add to the filename) and to categorize recurrent files (e.g., receipts) into subfolders (or to treat them in some specific way).
AppCleaner does a much more thorough job removing unwanted applicated compared to the default method. This saves space and potentially speeds up your Mac.
Apparently, for this company, the term "one-time" means "until we decide to change the version number and re-charge you"! A previously bought Pro license for the previous version of the application worked fine for a couple of years until upgrading to macOS Big Sur. The previous version no longer worked and the application wanted to install the latest one. The app no longer accepted the original license key, saying that it was valid only for the "old" version and prompting the purchase a new license, at full cost ($19.90, €21.90) obviously.
Most of the time it works fine, the user interface is very good and it certainly removes more items than a user would have done by simply dragging the app manually to the wastebin, along with any extra files found simply using intuition.
The app failed to clean up all remnants when trying to remove a full installation of Xcode, found out after trying to re-install just the Developer CLI tools and the installation would fail by stating that Xcode is already installed. The situation was resolved by following a guide found on Github for manually removing Xcode, which fortunately worked.
For certain applications whose installation is tightly coupled to the operating system, the "App Cleaner & Uninstaller" app should detect them and use specifically customized unistallation scripts, instead of relying on their generic scanning algorithms only.
AppTrap installs a daemon that runs in the background monitoring the trash, when you drag an app to the trash it will search for associated .plist files that have been left behind and ask to move them to the trash. In other words, AppTrap launches and does the work for you automatically. All you have to do is uninstall apps the old fashioned mac way by dragging apps to the trash.
This is thorough enough in cleaning up most of the cruft that gets left behind by applications, but might not get everything for the more invasive applications, especially if some of the files have privileged permissions.
The app does not provide any additional information about the files it wants to delete, so the average user cannot make an informed choice what to remove and what to keep. For example, it might prompt you to remove languages other users of your Mac are using. That's not a good idea.
People who have a clue about memory management will understand that on a Unix system RAM is typically fully used, because that is the way to optimize speed. Any attempt to "Free Up RAM" will lead to other stuff being loaded into RAM immediately: the app might "free" 2 GB of RAM, but if you come back to Safari and look at several tabs, it will soon be back to only 200 MB of free RAM.
Trial version only cleans 500 MB, but it does not disclose that limit before one pushes the button to clean after a scan. While it's OK to provide only limited functionality in a trial version, the appsshould be upfront about what the limitation is.
Especially with an app that is supposed to clean your system, it's really messed up to run an activity only partially, and then ask for money. This is clearly done to play on the insecurities of the less-than-tech-savvy users, who might believe that their machine is now in a worse state than before they ran the app, and need to pay now to get a clean system.
Even when trying to close the nag screen by pressing the little X in the corner, the X turns into "Don't leave yet, get your personal discount", which opens the website and gives you even more discount than their "Deal of the day" which is shown after you download the trial. So people who just go to the website to buy pay $89 (or $69 when they get a deal of the day), but when they pay from the nag screen, they only pay $56. That is not a good way to do business, and even if it were a solid app, it's hard to support these practices.
A full license is $89, but there's no way of telling how long you would get free updates. Owners of the previous version will have to pay 50% of that to upgrade. The subscription service is $39 per year. If there's a new major version in the next 3 years, subscription will be cheaper. All that fits with MacPaws being intransparent and sneaky.
AppDelete plain and simple performs very well in the way it thoroughly cleans out the files that are part of the app that exist in other sections of the filesystem.
Free of Cost
Simple to use with easy uninstallation
Removes every bit of leftovers and unwanted application files
Recovers valuable storage space
Boosts Startup Time