Sweepkit

sweepkit

Honest disk cleanup for Windows and Linux.
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sweepkit shows you which files are safe to delete, tells you what deleting them costs, and deletes nothing until you confirm. It has no ads, no telemetry, no network access and no "RAM booster".

Why another cleaner?

Most "PC cleaners" sell a feeling of speed rather than free space. sweepkit started as a response to one of them, G-CACHE. Its site (as of September 2026) advertises resetting the working sets of background processes, deleting Prefetch, clearing browser caches and flushing DNS "to improve internet speed", permanently emptying the Recycle Bin, and repeating all of it silently in the background, for example every 60 minutes. Each of those is in the table below, with the reason sweepkit leaves it out. The same techniques are common across the whole category; the point is the techniques, not one project.

sweepkit only does the part that holds up: it removes files that are genuinely left over, shows you exactly how much space that frees, and is upfront when cleaning something has a cost.

What it cleans

Run sweepkit list to see which targets exist on your system.

What it deliberately does not do

How it stays safe

• Look first. scan and the app's first screen only read. Nothing is deleted until you confirm, and the CLI refuses to delete without a terminal unless you pass --yes.
• Age thresholds. Each target only takes files that have not been modified for a while (24 hours for temp files), so files in active use stay.
• Personal folders are sealed. Documents, Desktop, Downloads, Pictures, Music, Videos, OneDrive and their localized Linux equivalents (for example ~/Belgeler) are never touched, even if a setting points there.
• System folders are protected. A folder like your home, AppData, C:\Windows or /var can never be cleaned as a whole, and folders such as System32, WinSxS, Program Files, /usr and /etc are sealed.
• Links are never followed. Symlinks, junctions, mount points and cloud placeholders are skipped, and walks never cross into another filesystem.
• Traversal-resistant deletion. Every file is re-checked right before it is deleted, through a handle to its folder (Go's os.Root). A folder swapped for a link after the scan cannot redirect a deletion elsewhere.
• In-use files are left alone, and browser caches are only cleaned while the browser is closed.
• Package managers clean themselves. APT, DNF and journald targets run the distribution's own command instead of deleting its files.
• No network. The CLI does not even link Go's networking packages; CI checks this on every commit.

Found a way to make it delete something it should not? Please see SECURITY.md.

Install

Download the latest release from the releases page:

Each archive contains the command-line tool sweepkit and the desktop app sweepkit-gui. The desktop app needs WebView2 on Windows (built into Windows 10 and 11) and WebKitGTK 4.1 on Linux; the packages pull it in.

The Windows binaries are not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn about an unknown publisher. You can verify every file instead:

# Checksums
sha256sum --check --ignore-missing SHA256SUMS.txt
# Proof that GitHub Actions built the file from this repository
gh attestation verify sweepkit_0.1.0_windows_amd64.zip --repo bugraskl/sweepkit

With Go 1.26 or newer you can also build the CLI yourself:

go install github.com/bugraskl/sweepkit/cmd/sweepkit@latest

Usage

The desktop app scans on start, pre-selects the safe defaults and shows the cost of every optional item. On Windows it can restart itself as administrator to include system items.

The command-line tool:

$ sweepkit scan
      SIZE    FILES  TARGET
    2.0 GB    75110  Temporary files [temp]
   28.8 MB        4  Crash dumps [crash-dumps]
   4.0 MB+       90  System error reports [system-error-reports] (needs administrator)

Ready to clean: 2.0 GB in 75114 files.

$ sweepkit clean
...
Permanently delete 75114 files (2.0 GB)? They are not moved to the Recycle Bin. [y/N] y
Cleaning Temporary files... deleted 75002 files, freed 2.0 GB, 112 in use and left alone

System targets need an elevated terminal on Windows or sudo on Linux. Under sudo, sweepkit still cleans the invoking user's caches, not root's.

Scheduling

sweepkit has no background service. If you want regular cleanups, let the operating system run it.

Windows, weekly, from a normal terminal:

schtasks /Create /SC WEEKLY /D SUN /ST 12:00 /TN sweepkit /TR "C:\Tools\sweepkit\sweepkit.exe clean --yes"

Linux, as a systemd user timer:

# ~/.config/systemd/user/sweepkit.service
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sweepkit clean --yes

# ~/.config/systemd/user/sweepkit.timer
[Timer]
OnCalendar=weekly
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

systemctl --user enable --now sweepkit.timer

Building from source

See CONTRIBUTING.md. In short: Go 1.26+, and for the desktop app Wails v2 (plus libgtk-3-dev and libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev on Linux).

go test ./internal/... ./cmd/...
go build ./cmd/sweepkit
wails build                      # Windows
wails build -tags webkit2_41     # Linux

License

MIT © 2026 Buğra Şıkel