Impressed by the early CCleaner period, FluentCleaner reimagines the traditional PC cleanup utility for contemporary Home windows techniques. Constructed with WinUI 3, it focuses on a cleaner, light-weight expertise centered round eradicating momentary recordsdata, cache, logs, and leftover litter – with out aggressive registry tweaks, bundled extras, or scareware-style prompts.
The undertaking additionally embraces the community-driven spirit that helped make older cleanup instruments well-liked within the first place. FluentCleaner helps the well-known winapp2.ini cleansing database format, permitting it to leverage a big ecosystem of community-maintained cleansing guidelines whereas maintaining the app quick, clear, and simple to make use of.
Options
- Moveable design with no set up required
- One-click system evaluation and cleanup
- Help for non-compulsory upkeep extensions
- Optimized for Home windows 11
- Clear and easy-to-understand cleanup outcomes
System Necessities:
- Home windows 10 2004 (Construct 19041) and later
- Home windows 11
No Home windows 11 requirement. Regardless of utilizing WinUI 3, the app is deliberately constructed to stay appropriate with fashionable Home windows 10 techniques as properly
What’s New
If I needed to give this launch a codename, it might be ~WRL0001.tmp, so that you by no means knew what it was, however deleting it all the time felt satisfying
- [Added] Cancel button: the Analyze button morphs into Cancel the second a scan or clear begins. Abort any scan or clear mid-run
- [Added] Junk progress tracker: Settings now retains a historical past of previous clear runs (date, bytes freed, objects eliminated)
- [Improved] Scan velocity considerably improved for entries with a number of file sample; the listing tree is now traversed as soon as whole as an alternative of as soon as per sample, slicing scan occasions by as much as 28× on some entries
- [Added] AI explanations for Winapp2 entries by way of Groq (experimental, requires a free API key in Settings):absolutely opt-in, nothing is shipped wherever with out your personal key. The concept was to elucidate particular person Winapp2 entries, file paths and registry keys in plain English earlier than cleanup. Many customers requested to maintain it in to check it themselves;a neighborhood LLM possibility could come later. Actually, i constructed this as a result of I had no thought what half the entries in my very own app have been doing 😄 Seems FluentCleaner knew about apps I might fully forgotten I had put in.See it in motion on X/Twitter
- [Improved] Upgraded from Home windows App SDK 1.8 >> 2.0.1 (secure, launched April 29 2026)
- [Improved] Scanner not loops ceaselessly on junction factors and symlinks;reparse factors are skipped throughout traversal (fixes the C:UsersAll Customers >> C:ProgramData infinite loop entice)
- [Improved] Search now auto-expands classes so outcomes are literally seen
- [Improved] Instruments web page obtained a full visible overhaul impressed by the Home windows Clock app widget model;extensions now really feel like interactive widgets quite than a plain listing
- [Improved] Hamburger button moved into the title bar: native Home windows 11 sample (File Explorer / Settings model)
- [Improved] Settings button is now the built-in NavigationView management, full with the native rotation animation on click on
- [Improved] Navigation cleaned as much as observe the official WinUI 3 approach;changed customized workarounds with native patterns
- [Improved] Dropped x86 construct goal: x64 and ARM64 solely
- [Added] New cleanup guidelines for Microsoft Edge and TeamViewer cache
- [Updated] Winapp2.ini to model 260512
FluentCleaner 26.05.02
- [Changed] Giant elements of the app have been refactored to make use of extra native WinUI 3 habits and APIs. Theme dealing with, TitleBar integration and system theme detection at the moment are a lot cleaner and extra constant
- [Compatibility] FluentCleaner formally helps Home windows 10 2004 (Construct 19041) and later;no Home windows 11 required
- [Added] Computerized replace checks; the Settings web page now silently checks for brand new variations on load.
- If an replace is accessible, FluentCleaner exhibits a small purple banner with a direct obtain button. You may as well set off replace checks anytime from the […] menu in Settings.
- [Added] Responsive TitleBar search; the search field now collapses right into a compact search icon + flyout on smaller window sizes for a cleaner structure.
- [Added] Native-style hamburger menu; moved the pane toggle into the TitleBar to raised match fashionable WinUI apps
- [Added] Terminal startup system information; Home windows model, CPU and RAM at the moment are proven when opening the terminal
- [Updated] CommunityToolkit.Mvvm 8.3.2 > 8.4.2
- [Fixed] ARM64 builds not resolving appropriately. Seems MSBuild is case-sensitive and arm64 ≠ ARM64. Added specific RuntimeIdentifiers so self-contained builds appropriately detect their goal platform.
- [Changed] Migrated all [ObservableProperty] backing fields to partial properties. That is the brand new normal for CommunityToolkit.Mvvm 8.4+ on .NET 10. No habits adjustments, simply cleaner code and no extra compiler warnings