App Cleaner & Uninstaller
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Yuriy Varbanets

App Cleaner & Uninstaller 9.1 - Smarter updates, app permissions, trust & AI insights

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App Cleaner & Uninstaller is no longer just an uninstaller - it’s now a complete app manager for macOS. We’ve rebuilt it to give you full visibility and control over every app on your Mac. Now you can: • Update apps in one place without searching manually • See detailed app permissions (camera, mic, disk, location, etc.) • Get AI-generated app summaries to quickly understand what an app does • Check Apple notarization to know which apps you can trust

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Yuriy Varbanets
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Excited to be back on Product Hunt! 🚀 I’m Yuriy, CTO at Nektony, and today we’re relaunching App Cleaner & Uninstaller - now evolved into a complete app manager for macOS. For years, we were known for fully removing apps. But modern Mac users need more than uninstalling, so we turned it into a full control center for everything installed on your Mac. Now you can: 🚀 Manage the full app lifecycle • Completely uninstall apps (no leftovers) • Update apps in one place • Remove stubborn system extensions • Control startup items 🔐 Improve security & transparency • Check Apple notarization status to ensure the app is trusted • See detailed app permissions (camera, mic, disk, location, etc.) • Understand what runs in the background • Get AI summaries to instantly understand each app Our goal is simple: give Mac users clarity, control, and confidence. If you’ve ever wondered what’s safe to remove, struggled with leftovers, or wanted better visibility into your apps - this release is for you. Would love your feedback - what’s missing from your ideal Mac app manager? 👇
Asya Karapetyan
Maker

I love the new App permissions feature to check which apps have access to my camera and location.

André J

Can it do AI-generated summaries for process names in activity monitor.app?

Yuriy Varbanets
Maker

@conduit_design Great question! Thanks for asking!

App Cleaner & Uninstaller focuses on installed applications rather than raw process lists like Activity Monitor. AI summaries are generated for the apps we detect on your Mac, helping you quickly understand what each app is.

The app doesn’t display individual system processes, so summaries are tied specifically to applications.

Really appreciate the idea! Expanding clarity around background activity is definitely something we’re thinking about as the product evolves.

André J

@yuriy_varbanets Yeah. I think thats a real pain for many users. What are all these processes on my maschine? are some of them backdoors leaking my data etc. Googling each and everyone is unsustainable, and google is often inacurate, also new processes popup all the time.

Iryna Ivanova
Maker

Really excited to see how App Cleaner & Uninstaller has evolved into a full app manager. The updater is my favorite feature — updating all my apps in one click feels amazing ❤️

Sergey Petrov

This cool! Can it handle brew and other similar sources?

Vitalii Neshchadin

@sergeypetrov If we’re talking about the updater feature, App Cleaner & Uninstaller can now detect updates for brew casks, but not for brew formulae. Maybe that’s something they’re planning to add.

Yuriy Varbanets
Maker

@sergeypetrov Thanks for your question!

App Cleaner & Uninstaller can detect and update apps installed via Homebrew (including casks).

If an app was installed through Brew and has a standard macOS app bundle, App Cleaner & Uninstaller will recognize it and let you manage it just like any other app.

We’re continuously improving support for different installation sources. If there’s a specific workflow you’d like us to cover, I’d love to hear it!