Impressed by the early CCleaner period, FluentCleaner reimagines the basic PC cleanup utility for contemporary Home windows techniques. Constructed with WinUI 3, it focuses on a cleaner, light-weight expertise centered round eradicating non permanent information, cache, logs, and leftover muddle – with out aggressive registry tweaks, bundled extras, or scareware-style prompts.
The venture additionally embraces the community-driven spirit that helped make older cleanup instruments standard 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 holding the app quick, clear, and simple to make use of.
Options
- Transportable design with no set up required
- One-click system evaluation and cleanup
- Assist for elective 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 suitable with fashionable Home windows 10 techniques as nicely
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 development tracker: Settings now retains a historical past of previous clear runs (date, bytes freed, gadgets eliminated)
- [Improved] Scan pace considerably improved for entries with a number of file sample; the listing tree is now traversed as soon as whole as a substitute of as soon as per sample, reducing scan instances 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):totally opt-in, nothing is distributed wherever with out your individual key. The concept was to clarify 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 choice could come later. Actually, i constructed this as a result of I had no concept what half the entries in my very own app had been doing 😄 Seems FluentCleaner knew about apps I would utterly 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 eternally 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 acquired a full visible overhaul impressed by the Home windows Clock app widget type;extensions now really feel like interactive widgets relatively than a plain listing
- [Improved] Hamburger button moved into the title bar: native Home windows 11 sample (File Explorer / Settings type)
- [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 comply with the official WinUI 3 manner;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 components of the app had 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 reveals a small purple banner with a direct obtain button. It’s also possible to 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 higher 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 accurately. Seems MSBuild is case-sensitive and arm64 ≠ARM64. Added specific RuntimeIdentifiers so self-contained builds accurately detect their goal platform.
- [Changed] Migrated all [ObservableProperty] backing fields to partial properties. That is the brand new commonplace for CommunityToolkit.Mvvm 8.4+ on .NET 10. No habits adjustments, simply cleaner code and no extra compiler warnings
