OwlCleaner is an app specially designed to improve productivity on your Mac, cleaning junk to free up storage space and speeding up your operating system. This software has been created by the developer DrBuho Inc., a company founded in 2019 and especially focused on this type of applications for macOS.
In addition, BuhoCleaner is currently one of the few current applications for cleaning the operating system that is Updated to work with the new version of macOS Ventura, as well as with devices based on an Apple M2 SoC.
How to get OwlCleaner?
If you are interested in this app, you can currently purchase it with a 20% discount for SoydeMac readers with the code SM20SP02, added to the original offer of 30% that is on the web. In addition, you can also get more information about it on the official page of the application. To download, you just have to follow these steps:
- Access the OwlCleaner download page.
- Click the Download button from the web.
- Wait for the download to complete.
- You will now have the .dmg ready to install on your macOS just like you would any other app.
If you wish buy OwlClanerthen you must follow these other steps:
- Go to the purchase page.
- There you will be able to see the three available plans to choose the one that best suits what you need.
- Single plan = lifetime license for 1 Mac.
- Family plan = license for 3 Macs for life.
- Enterprise plan = lifetime license for 10 Macs.
- Once chosen, click on the Buy Now button to continue the registration and payment process.
Remember that by being our reader you now have a exclusive discount of 20%!
What is OwlCleaner used for?
As you well know, many storage consumption issues it is created by files that are really useless, and that not only take up space, but also prevent the system from working faster. I’m referring to temporary or cache files generated by software, orphaned files resulting from upgrades to newer versions of macOS, disk images, and other undesirable data.
In the new versions of the macOS operating system there is a reserved section of the storage space and it is labeled as system data. This portion could occupy from a few GB to dozens of them. That’s why you shouldn’t disparage this section and remove all this unnecessary “junk” to make room for your needs.
Well, that is precisely what OwlCleaner does a completely automatic and easy way, in addition to doing it safely not to damage anything. You can even uninstall apps you no longer use by removing all traces, much more effective than simply trashing them as usual.
What can OwlCleaner clean?
Between the Junk files that BuhoCleaner can cleanto free up space and improve the performance of your Mac, are:
- User cache files.
- System log files.
- Web browser cache (Safari, Chrome, Firefox,…).
- Unused DMG image files.
- User logs generated when an app crashes and is asked to send an error log file.
- System cache.
- Xcode junk, like intermediate builds, project indexes, etc.
- Contents of the Trash.
Outstanding features
There are several cleaning apps for Mac, however OwlCleaner is presented as a very interesting alternative due to several notable points:
- BuhoCleaner is one of the few cleaning apps that are designed to work on macOS Ventura and with new M2 chips.
- it’s an app very simple and with a smooth GUI design to facilitate the daily life of users.
- It allows quick cleaning that scans the entire system for junk files to delete them.
- It not only cleans System Data, it also allows completely uninstall apps you no longer use without leaving any traces.
- The app is included OwlCleaner Menuwith which you can monitor the system status of your Mac in real time, such as CPU load, RAM usage, storage, temperature, etc.
- It allows find large files that take up a lot of space on your drive so delete them. You can filter by Name, Size, Date, etc.
- Look for duplicate files to delete them, be they documents, photos, videos, etc. In this case you can also apply search filters.
- Startup item management. That is, to choose the apps that should be started automatically during boot and that could slow down the startup.
- Includes ToolKita set of extra tools that let you do things like clearing the DNS cache, Spotlight reindexing, freeing up RAM, and Sheredder to completely remove private files and prevent them from being accessed by other people using your Mac.
How to use OwlCleaner
Once the program is installed on your computer, the user interface is extremely simple. On the left side we can see a list of applications that this program includes.
The quick clean it does a screening of files that we no longer use and that we can generate almost without realizing it, such as the remains of files that we leave behind when we delete a program, caches… I always try to keep my laptop quite clean and I was surprised by the amount of junk files it found.
In it uninstaller section, creates a list of all the applications that we have installed on our Mac, along with the memory they occupy. So we can see at a glance which ones we don’t use and eliminate them.
In section large files It does a search for us and creates a list of files that occupy more than 50MB.
When we click on duplicatesas we have explained before, it makes a search for files and folders with the same size and content, in such a way that if we have duplicate files and we have not noticed it, deleting a copy we can expand the storage space.
In startup items We can see the applications that are running every time we start our Mac, so that if we deactivate those that we don’t think are necessary, we can speed up their performance and increase the speed at the start of each session.
And finally there is the application of Toolkit, where we have several sections. If we click on disk space analyzerthe folders are displayed in order of size, we can click on each one of them and the files they contain are displayed, to select those that no longer interest us and eliminate them permanently.
The shredder, as you can already imagine, is used to delete files in a safe way, without leaving any trace, so that they are impossible to recover.
If you have performance issues, it also gives you the option to make a ram cleaning. If this is the first time that you use this type of program, I recommend that you use it, since OwlCleaner clears the RAM and this will make the programs run more smoothly.
If what works slow for you is the internet, in this case we will click on Clear DNS Cachethe program will delete leftover IPs and DNS records so that your connection improves and the browser loads much faster.
And finally, an extra functionality that this program has, since it is so good at finding files, if you are not able to find a file with Spotlight on Mac or we find a strange operation of it, clicking on Reindex Spotlight We’ll be back to make this work.
Without a doubt, the final result has pleasantly surprised me because in addition to freeing up a lot of space on my Mac, which I didn’t know I could delete, I notice that the startup time when running a program has been significantly reduced. Now I work with several programs at the same time in a more fluid and effective way, without a doubt a noticeable improvement.
