Clean Master is the most downloaded Cleaning tool on the Android platform, Cheetah mobile, the maker of it has released PC version for it and is available for download. Clean Master for PC can give a tough competition to popular CCleaner. This tool supports cleaning of more than 500 programs on Windows and claims to remove junk created by commonly used software.
We don’t need to tell you this, CCleaner is the most used cleaning tool on Windows, the stats also prove that, CCleaner Crosses 1 billion Downloads Mark, Best System Cleaning Tool Ever.
Clean Master vs. CCleaner
How Clean Master is different when compared to CCleaner?
When you launch Clean Master after installing on Windows, immediately, it starts scanning for junk on your computer and shows how much it can clean with clear details like Web Cache, System Cache, other software junk, video & audio junk , Social software junk , Online games junk and registry junk (don’t clean this, though it offers Restore registry), check the screenshot below.
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CCleaner on the other hand, doesn’t do this, but offers analyze option, which you need to run manually, most users simply ignore that and ‘Run Cleaner’ button.
What’s the use of knowing which files it has cleaned after running, you should be knowing this before running, right!.
This tool by default reminds you, when junk exceeds by 100 MB and scans for junk files automatically on startup of the computer. You’ve control on these in its settings.
Recently, Piriform has introduced ‘Active Monitoring’ feature, which does the same, but you don’t have control on disk space setting.
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Verdict
Currently, CCleaner is a way ahead and has edge over Clean Master with Intelligent Cookie scanning, Browser plugin and Windows startup entries management, other functions it offers in Tools is a plus for Piriform’s Crap Cleaning tool.
Important things to consider, CCleaner gets updates constantly for new Windows Operating system versions, new programs and new browser versions (even for the developer builds). In the long run, will Cheetah mobile able to do this? Time will tell, let us wait and see.
Download Clean Master v1.0 | 4.7 MB
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What do you think? Do you like Clean Master? Will you use it instead of CCleaner on your computer? Let us know your thoughts with us in the comments.