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Free Avast Cleanup app cleans and optimizes Android phones and tablets

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Avast Cleanup is a free app for Android

Avast Cleanup is a free app for Android

After a while, your phones and tablets accumulate obsolete files and superfluous data, system caches, gallery thumbnails, and programs. This ‘junk’ slows down your device and eats up precious storage space.

Avast Cleanup identifies and cleans unwanted files from your Android device so it will run like a champ again.

Our new free app, Avast Cleanup & Boost for Android, cleans away all the unwanted files and programs so that your device is running smoothly and quickly with storage space to spare. But don’t take our word for it.

Longtime Avast customer, Thomas M. from North Lanarkshire, Scotland wrote us to tell how pleased he is with Cleanup’s performance. Thomas has used Avast for years, and uses Avast Free Antivirus to protect his home computers.

Thomas M.

Thomas M.

“Having installed Avast Free Antivirus 2015 on two of my PCs and a laptop, which for me is the best yet, I came across the new Avast Cleanup app which I installed on my phone and both my tablets.

I had been having a few performance issues with at least one of my tablets and my phone. After installation and running the application, both run great. The app freed up a nice amount of space and discarded lots of clutter left behind by old apps, etc.

The interface, as well as being intuitive, looks great too. I especially like the spiral animation whilst cleaning is in action. So slick!

I also like the option to store/back-up deleted items to cloud storage (if required), in this case Dropbox being the choice offered.

Nice work, Avast, once again on offering another quality fully functional free product.”

It’s our pleasure, Thomas. Thanks for taking the time to write to us.

Avast Cleanup gets rid of junk files on Thomas M.'s tablets and phone.

Avast Cleanup gets rid of junk files on Thomas M.’s tablets and phone.

How to run a Cleanup scan

Cleanup can disable or remove certain files and programs to optimize your system. Follow these steps and get started now:

  • Install Avast Cleanup & Boost for Android for free from the Google Play store or from the Avast Cleanup website when accessed with your mobile device
  • When the application is running, you can run the basic cleaning by tapping the Safe clean button. The configuration window will appear automatically the first time you run the application.
  • Select Start cleaning to start this process right away or select Configure. The Configure option redirects you to Settings where you can choose the type of files to be deleted.

Learn more about how to use Avast Cleanup on the FAQ.

 

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GrimeFighter is now Avast Cleanup

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Optimize your PC with Avast Cleanup’s advanced scanning features.

Change is good, especially when it pushes us forward and encourages us to improve. We’ve recently made a change that will benefit our users and make their experience using our products even better. Our PC optimization product formerly known as GrimeFighter has now emerged as Avast Cleanup. In addition to the name change, there’s more to this transition that Avast users can be excited about. In Avast Cleanup, we’ve got a bunch of great benefits for you to enjoy:

  • Rid your PC of up to 5x more junk. Avast Cleanup continues to search for junk files, unnecessary app processes and system settings that slow down your PC’s performance. The amount of issues detected by Avast Cleanup have been improved fivefold, ensuring that your PC is cleaned as thoroughly as possible.
  • Keep it clean, keep it fast. Avast Cleanup’s quick and easy scan is 10x faster, now capable of transforming your PC in minutes or even seconds. As always, exact scan times may vary due to Internet connection or amount of issues found.
  • Win precious space back with new, advanced scanning features. Even a new PC can be loaded with unnecessary apps. Avast Cleanup checks when you update a program or uninstall an app, ensuring that any unnecessary leftover files don’t take up space on your PC. Since you’re immediately informed if unneeded files are discovered, you can save more space on your device than ever before.
  • Organize Avast Cleanup to work around your agenda. You can schedule a daily clean, select which programs you want to load upon startup, and choose what you clean in a scan. What’s more, Avast Cleanup discreetly runs in the background while you go about your daily activities.

Avast Cleanup helps you store more of what you actually want and to accomplish it in just a few minutes. Don’t let your PC become a test of your patience — try Cleanup for yourself. Here’s how:

  • For licensed users, all you need to do is install the latest version of Avast. Your GrimeFighter will then be automatically updated to Avast Cleanup. You’ll receive a notification letting you know that the update was successful.
  • For users who have updated to the latest Avast version but haven’t yet purchased Avast Cleanup, you can do so either from our website or, better yet, directly through the program by navigating to the store link on left menu of the interface.
  • For users who haven’t updated, you can also buy Cleanup within Avast. For now, you’ll still see it as GrimeFighter and you’ll need to do an update to the latest version of Avast in order for it to work.