App Review: Avast GrimeFighter for Android - Clean and Boost Up Your Device Painlessly

by Gary Oldwood on 23 April 2015 · 4245 views

We’ve seen plenty of cleaner apps, some of which do a terrific job in maintaining our Android/iOS devices and keeping them free from clutter and unneeded files, and some others do an average job, performing badly and basically do more harm than good. The same goes for all sorts of apps, but especially in this case developers should pay extra attention, since cleaners are supposed to undo all filesystem changes caused by other apps that decrease the device’s performance.

Having said that, we can expect Avast GrimeFighter to meet those requirements and make the Avast community proud once more, as it recently did with Avast Battery Saver. Avast GrimeFighter is a free app for Android which has several features that can help you clean your device from clutter and maintain it for a long time.

Features

Once you open the app you will be brought to its main screen, which is very organized and doesn’t confuse the user with any technical nonsense. In the center there’s a percentage which corresponds to the device’s used space, and below is a number indicating the available space.

A big yellow button (“Safe Clean”) will begin the “safe” cleaning process, which looks for clutter in the most important and usual places that it is found. Most times it's enough for the average user, as it can free up most of the space consumed by unnecessary data. You can configure what elements should be scanned and removed before the cleaning process begins (thumbnails, system cache, APKs and residual files) as well.

More advanced users can use the “advanced” cleaning feature of the app, which can scan the device more thoroughly and remove even more unwanted stuff. With the Advanced Cleaning tool, you can view installed applications, media files located in your phone (images, videos, etc.), downloaded files and app data, over which you have complete control and can easily send to the “Trash” in order to remove them permanently. In this feature, all items in each category are displayed in groups, which are sorted by size.

An additional feature that can be quite useful to many users is the app’s ability to transfer data to Dropbox. It is quite easy to setup this feature, since the only thing that’s needed is your permission to let your Dropbox account get linked with Avast GrimeFighter.

Efficiency

This app removes all sorts of junk files in your device, significantly boosting it up and freeing up lots of essential space. This includes thumbnails, unneeded files stored in cache folders, unused apps and residual files.

Conclusion

GrimeFighter’s functionality doesn’t stop where the functionality of similar apps do, but don’t get fooled; it is very lightweight. It runs smoothly in less powerful devices and doesn’t require much space for its installation, consequently becoming an ideal solution for anyone who wants to keep his device fast and clean without much trouble, for free.