Concerned about privacy and disk space? BleachBit is your solution. In today's digital world, it's essential to protect your personal information. With just a few clicks, you can easily delete unwanted files and permanently erase sensitive data, ensuring your confidentiality and giving you peace of mind.

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

  • Shred sensitive files, so one can ever read their contents.
  • You always have the "Pro" version: BleachBit is free of charge
  • Anonymous: you do not need to register an account
  • Simple to operate: read the descriptions, check the boxes you want, click preview, and click delete.
  • Multi-platform: it runs on both Linux and Windows
  • What's hiding in your software? BleachBit is free to share, learn, and modify because it is open source, so there are no secrets.
  • No adware, spyware, telemetry, malware, bloatware, backdoors, browser toolbars, or "value-added software"
  • Translated to 68 languages
  • Overwrite free disk space to hide previously deleted files
  • On Windows, choose to either install or run in portable mode. like from a USB drive.
  • Command line interface for scripting and automation
  • Advanced users can write their own cleaners using CleanerML
  • Automatically import and update winapp2.ini cleaner files giving Windows users access to thousands of additional cleaners

Use BleachBit to:

  • Free disk space
  • Reduce the size of backups and the time to create them by removing unnecessary files
  • Maintain privacy
  • Improve system performance
  • Prepare system for backups by removing junk data that wastes space and time.
  • Prepare whole disk images for compression (common for "ghost" backups and virtual machines) by wiping free disk space

Cleaners

Cleaners contain the rules for cleaning specific applications, and BleachBit includes a growing list of cleaners for Google Chrome, Edge, Firefox, VLC, system logs, temporary files, and many others.

  • Many more cleaners for Windows and Linux are available in the CleanerML community repository.
  • Add thousands of cleaners by using winapp2.ini (Windows only).

Advanced cleaners

Going beyond standard deletion of files, BleachBit has several advanced cleaners:

  • Clear the memory and swap on Linux
  • Delete broken shortcuts on Linux
  • Delete the Firefox URL history without deleting the whole file – with optional shredding
  • Delete Linux localizations: delete languages you don't use. More powerful than localepurge and available on more Linux distributions.
  • Clean APT for Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Linux Mint
  • Find widely-scattered junk such as Thumbs.db and .DS_Store files.
  • Execute yum clean for CentOS, Fedora, and Red Hat to remove cached package data
  • Delete Windows registry keys – often where MRU (most recently used) lists are stored
  • Delete the OpenOffice.org recent documents list without deleting the whole Common.xcu file
  • Overwrite free disk space to hide previously files
  • Vacuum Firefox, Google Chrome, Liferea, Thunderbird, and Yum databases: shrink files without removing data to save space and improve speed
  • Surgically remove private information from .ini and JSON configuration files and SQLite3 databases without deleting the whole file
  • Overwrite data in SQLite3 before deleting it to prevent recovery (optional)