Advanced Duplicate Cleaner

Advanced Duplicate Cleaner is an application designed to help you identify duplicate and similar files on your drive.

This way, you will be able to unclutter Mac disk of useless files and boost your system performance. Keeping your computer clean makes it complete the running tasks faster and enhances your productivity.

The utility has an intuitive and well-structured interface. It suggests the locations that usually store duplicates, such as the Home Folder, the Pictures Folder and the Music folder, so you can select the desired one in a click. However, you can choose a custom folder and enable the scan process just as easy. The tool allows you to configure exclusion rules that prevent scanning specific files and folders. Also, you can name the folders you wish to constantly check for duplicates and receive notifications when new items are detected.

Once the scan process is over, your get an overview of the identified duplicates conveniently structured by categories of files. Thus, you can see at a glance the size taken by each type of files so you can decide which one to inspect closely. Selecting a category lets you sort the items by name, size, and count, either ascending or descending. The app includes the Smart Cleanup function for auto-marking the files to delete, but it isn't active unless you upgrade to the pro version. However, you can still remove duplicates for free by opening selections in Finder and remove them manually.

To conclude, Advanced Duplicate Cleaner offers a simple solution to clean Mac drive of duplicate files. Also, the tool can find similar (non-identical) files for a thorough computer cleaning. Dealing with the identified similar items follows the same procedure with that of duplicates.