Messing around with my phone too much has serious consequences: I accumulate a lot of garbage in the form of badly thrown photos, documents that I download from the internet and share on WhatsApp, APK files with which I try new applications and a long period of time that makes me want to take some time to format my Android mobile quite often.

Fortunately, there are applications that you can use to clean your smartphone; some of them are legendary and still work great today. Others, not so much, have gained the reputation of doing little and slowing down a lot. I discovered it recently a new one, open source, free and saved me from having to do a factory reset on my phone. This is Cleaner: With this simple name, it serves its purpose.

This is how easy the cleaner works

Cleaner is one of these applications very few users knowThis is natural since it has not accumulated millions of downloads on the Play Store and is relatively new. Its developer maintains it with frequent updates, the last of which is this summer.

One of its advantages is that it is Open Source, so its code is available to anyone who wants to make changes or improvements. Although the really important thing about Cleaner is that it more than lived up to the expectations I set at the beginning.

Focused is a very simple app. Maintenance of our Android device: scans the internal memory to find large, residual files (from applications that we no longer use) and also provides an application and memory manager.

The only downside I have is the ads that appear at the bottom of the screen, sometimes full screen, but fortunately these can be quickly closed. For the rest, a oversimplification It has managed to clean my Pixel several times when I was planning on formatting it anyway.

And the best thing is this simplicity: such applications are often false wordsand running tasks that claim to speed up the system. None of this is true, which is why I give Cleaner so much credit. It doesn’t try to trick us, it just helps us clean up files and apps.

As if that were not enough, the design follows the guidelines of Material You, it is very familiar and intuitive, it could be a perfect Google application. In fact, it is a bit similar to the Google Files manager. This is one of the aspects that convinced me the most about this application.

Its settings also allow you to personalize this cleaning experience.: dark and light themes, accent colors, which files are deleted and analyzed, and much more. It seems ideal to clean up the internal memory and gain some space. In my case, I use it as a hobby, although I have a lot of free GB.

To be able to be Download cleaner From the Play Store by following this link. Or from its official repository on GitHub. Don’t forget to enable the unknown sources option so that Android will allow you to install it.

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