Introducing Uninstalr: Easy to use and very accurate software uninstaller for Windows. It can uninstall multiple apps at the same time and we think it’s pretty cool. Developed with expertise by Macecraft Software - the minds behind jv16 PowerTools.
Key Features
- Batch uninstall many apps at the same time.
- Supports unattended uninstallation of apps.
- Supports monitoring of new software installations.
- Also detects portable apps and previously uninstalled software leftovers.
- Shows all the data added to your system by installed software on a file by file basis.
- Shows all the data it will remove before starting the uninstallation.
- Filter and search the list of installed software.
- According to our benchmark, Uninstalr is the most accurate software uninstaller by leaving the least amount of leftovers when uninstalling apps.
- Supports detection and uninstallation of Microsoft Store, Steam, Big Fish Game System, Chocolatey, NuGet and Ninite installed software.
- Supports Windows Dark Mode.
- Supports Windows 11, 10, 8 and 7.
- Comes with these translations builtin: Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
- Has a single executable file portable version and a normal setup version.
- Uninstalr is freeware, lightweight and easy to use. No bells and whistles, no nonsense.
Uninstalr’s custom uninstallation engine has a dedicated support for the detection and uninstallation of 15 types of apps:
- Normal Windows apps
- Microsoft Store apps
- Portable apps
- Chocolatey apps
- Ninite apps
- PortableApps.com apps
- Steam games
- EA App games
- Epic Games Store games
- Riot platform games
- GOG Galaxy games
- WarGaming.net games
- Battle.net games
- itch.io games
- Big Fish platform games
Uninstalr 3.0 changelog:
Key Changes:
- The installed apps list now shows the country of origin for all known installed apps.
- The main user interface and the before uninstallation paths view both now displays checkboxes, allowing easier selection of data to be removed.
- The main window bar now includes Settings and About buttons.
- Improvements:
- The installed apps list now shows the country of origin for all known installed apps.
- The listing of paths before uninstallation starts now displays checkboxes, allows user to uncheck any paths user doesn’t want to be removed. Editing the list of paths was also possible before, but since the UI was not very clear about this, many users were not aware of this.
- Uninstalr now attempts to automatically detect system backup paths and adds them to the list of ignored paths.
- The main window bar now includes Settings and About buttons.
- Greatly improved support for detecting portable apps, especially NirLauncher ones.
- Greatly improved support for detecting leftover app detection.
- After software is uninstalled and the system restarted, Uninstalr now also says how long the entire process took.
- Improved support for systems with software installed over multiple drives.
- The Settings now also shows the builtin ignore list that contains all the automatically ignored folders from the system.
- Improved protection against potentially unwanted detections related to any software source code repositories stored in the system.
- Scrolling the Settings using the mouse wheel is now much smoother.
- The program now shows an additional warning message if you try to uninstall a potential leftover software. (Spoiler alert: You should not uninstall something just because Uninstalr says it could be a leftover. Notice the word COULD.)
- Added an option to skip the installed app size analysis to improve scan speed.
- The capitalization of software names is now handled better. For example, previously WinRAR could be listed as Winrar or WinRar.
- Installed software are now listed without their version number after the name. The version number is displayed normally under the name row.
- The program now uses less RAM.
- The program could list paths that do not actually exist in the path listing before uninstallation. While this was by design, and explained in the UI, it was rather confusing and many people reported it as a bug. This is no longer done and instead, the Settings now contain an option about allowing Uninstalr to delete any app related paths that did not exist before the uninstallation started. Yes, sometimes running the app"s own uninstaller actually creates leftovers. This setting is to remove those.
Fixes:
- Known issue fixed: Uninstalling some apps, such as WinRAR, did not always fully remove everything. Usually uninstalling the app again finally removed it.
- Known issue fixed: The progress bar isn’t always showing the progress as well as it should.
- Known issue fixed: Portable apps stored directly on a drive root, such as C:\WinFindr_Portable.exe, were not detected.
- Known issue fixed: Portable apps stored on other drives than the C drive were not detected.
- Uninstalling some software, such as Core Temp, took over 15 minutes.
- Uninstalling some software can cause the program to hang or take a very long time to complete.
- While software was being uninstalled, the progress screen could display paths of unrelating software. While this was entirely a cosmetic issue, it could cause the user to think that wrong data was being removed (it wasn’t).
- Scrolling the list of installed apps doesn’t work using the mouse scroll wheel on some systems.
- Uninstalr failed to detect Tor Browser.
- Uninstalr could get confused if you had software installed in many hard drives.
- The Settings page could be shown with the scroll bar not reset to the top position.
- If you had the same software installed twice, first as a normal software and then as an app from Microsoft Store, only the normal version could be listed.
- Using the Right Click > Regenerate list didn’t reset the search filters.
- Using the Right Click > Regenerate could cause some installed software not be listed after the list of installed apps was regenerated.
- The program could crash with Access Violation error message on some systems. This was a very rare bug affecting only very few people.
- Clicking Show Data button didn"t display any kind of progress, which could make the user think nothing was happening.
- The program failed to detect many builtin Windows apps. Note: To see these, you need to enable the option under App Types. They are hidden by default.
- Detection of NirSoft portable apps didn"t always work properly.
- If you chose No or Cancel option on the additional warning popup about similar apps being uninstalled, more similar warnings could be still shown before the operation was property cancelled.
- If you had two apps with the same name and same publisher installed to the system (for example, two different versions of the same app), they would always be listed in random order when the list was sorted.
Known issues:
- Uninstalr can fail to run with an Out Of Memory error in systems that have a lot of installed apps.
- Using the New Software Monitor tool multiple times during one session can cause the program to get stuck on the Scanning stage.
- Some installed app names are capitalized incorrectly, such as "CCleaner Portable" is listed as "ccleaner portable".
- Some apps can be listed twice, for example, Smart Defrag can be listed once as Smart Defrag and then Smart Defrag Home.
- When uninstalling many apps, the path listing view before the uninstallation starts should display buttons to allow user to easily jump to the information area of each app. These buttons are not always visible.
- The "uninstallation completed" message box sometimes closes when the user moves the mouse cursor over the button before user clicks it.
- The "jump to software" buttons are not always visible on the pre-uninstallation screen.
- Perform Deep Analysis can be started only by clicking the button, not via the Right Click menu, main menu or F4 keyboard shortcut.
- There is no feedback for the user after Fix Information feature has been used.
- On the pre-uninstallation screen, the Scripts checkbox can be checked by default on Dark Mode but not on the normal mode.
- The Setup version’s license agreement shows version 2.8 instead of 3.0.
Download: Uninstalr 3.0 | 7.1 MB (Free, paid version available)
Download: Uninstalr Setup 3.0
View: Uninstalr Website | Screenshot
