I’ve heard about AppZapper from Mike and had a look at it but wasn’t quite sold on it.
Today I got the latest release of the Neat Little Mac Apps podcast and it reviewed this app, it also includes a promo code for the next 3 weeks which gives you $3 discount. For less than 6 pounds how can you say no after listening to that review? I grabbed a copy and really like it, if you’re into installing and uninstalling apps a lot on your mac, you should get it too.
The basic idea on a mac when it comes to installing and uninstalling software is simply to drag the application anywhere you want and thats all. When it comes to uninstalling, just drop it in the trash, simple. Unfortunately most applications have a lot of support and related files, things like preferences, logs, caches etc and the typical uninstall method does not get rid of these.
This is where AppZapper comes in, it hunts down all the crud that an app puts everywhere and deletes those along with the app, neat. Using the example in the image above, if I had just done the usual drop-in-trash method of uninstall I’d have left on my drive 57MB of crap.
My home directory is full of junk, should have bought this app ages ago.
