---
name: "AppCleaner"
subtitle: "Drag an app onto it and every preference, cache, and login item goes too"
date: 2026-05-05
link: "https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/"
linkText: "Visit freemacsoft.net"
source: "Reader suggestion"
topics:
  - macos-apps
tags: [macos, utility, uninstaller, free]
description: "Free Mac uninstaller from FreeMacSoft that hunts down the dozen support files an app leaves scattered across ~/Library when you drag it to the Trash."
---

Dragging a Mac app to the Trash leaves behind preferences, application support folders, login items, and launch agents that nobody bothers to remove. AppCleaner finds the lot — drop an app onto its window and it lists every related file across `~/Library` and the system, ticked and ready to delete. Its SmartDelete mode also watches for apps you've already trashed and offers to clean up the leftovers. Free, lean, has been a "first day on a new Mac" install for a decade.