Impressed

Although I’m sorely disappointed with AVG Antivirus for Mac (not on App Store, maybe for a good reason), I actually am quite impressed with AVG Cleaner. I didn’t expect much, but I pressed the “Scan Mac” button just to see what it would do. To my utter surprise, it scanned very fast (just a few seconds) and found about 16 gb of stuff to delete. I looked through the entire list first before I agreed to delete anything. I was really surprised with all the files it found to delete - places I never would’ve thought to look. Maybe 16 gb doesn’t seem like a lot, but on a 2011 Macbook Air every bit of space counts. Because I was so happy with the results, I ran the duplicate finder also and was equally impressed that every single duplicate picture it found was indeed a duplicate (I looked at every single one before I deleted anything). Now I feel I can trust this program, so next time I won’t check every single file and it will go a lot faster. I previously used Omnidisk Sweeper to list files in order from largest to smallest, so I could delete some larger files to free up space… but this app is much easier, faster, and prettier to look at.

P.S. I skipped the account setup (mentioned by another reviewer). It’s optional; you can click “not now” or something like that. Didn’t bother me at all that that app tries to set up an account. Just say no.

SW168 about AVG Cleaner