Review

Here's a sample of what others have to write about BleachBit:

  • Stanley Quint, Former Senior Human Capital IT Director, PhD (Quora, 2025)

    Bleachbit is a lot more powerful than CCleaner. [...] use it a lot, and find that is a lot more thorough than most other temporary file removal applications.

  • Moggridge J., Ultrasound Journal (February 2017)

    after using the ultrasound system's own disk management tools to delete data, DICOM and jpg files could still be recovered. However, following use of BleachBit to clean the blank space, no examination files could be recovered

  • Bruce Schneier, Wired Magazine (October 2013)

    Install the minimum software set you need to do your job, and disable all operating system services that you won't need. The less software you install, the less an attacker has available to exploit. I downloaded and installed OpenOffice, a PDF reader, a text editor, TrueCrypt, and BleachBit. That's all.

  • Network World (September 2013)

    I like it.

  • Bruce Schneier, The Guardian (September 2013)

    Since I started working with Snowden's documents, I have been using [...] BleachBit

  • FileCluster (July 2013)

    simple, yet very capable open-source tool that has a very straightforward layout and easy to understand options.

  • download 3k (May 2013)

    An excellent cleaning software. You'll regret not giving it a try!

  • dotTech (March 2013)

    BleachBit is a must have in my opinion.

  • Erez Zukerman, PCWorld (March 2013)

    BleachBit feels like a solid, no-nonsense utility for users who know what they're doing. Being free, open-source, and cross-platform are great advantages, especially in an enterprise environment.

  • Softpedia (March 2013)

    We tried to recover items deleted this way but our attempts remained unsuccessful.

  • John Fastman, 2016 (alternativeto.net)

    Open source app Bleachbit is works wonders for removing all kinds of residual files and other traces of activity on your Windows or Linux computer.

  • Users on SourceForge.net
  • CNET (January 2011)

    BleachBit quickly and thoroughly purged files from our system that other cleaners had recently missed. It's quite easy to select which files to delete and which to avoid, and the previews help ensure that you're not deleting the wrong things.

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