BitBroom

Spec sheet

Product

BitBroom offers Windows utilities for cleaning disks and recovering files.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitbroom.app

Intended users

The maker describes Cleaner for reclaiming disk space and Rescue for recovering deleted files, formatted media and data from failing drives.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitbroom.app

Free plan

YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · bitbroom.app

Support

The maker invites questions by email and issues on either project’s repository.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitbroom.app

Cleaner analysis

Cleaner includes a Space Hogs radar, duplicate finder and disk analyzer with treemap, largest-file and CSV views.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitbroom.app

Cleaner categories

Cleaner covers more than 60 researched cleanup categories, including Windows, GPU, developer-tool and app caches.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitbroom.app

Cleaner safeguards

Cleaner says scans are read-only, deletions are audited, junctions are not followed, and OneDrive placeholders are not touched.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitbroom.app

Cleaner scheduling and CLI

Cleaner supports scheduled cleaning through Windows Task Scheduler and a command-line interface with dry-run and JSON options.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitbroom.app

Downloads

Cleaner provides installer and portable ZIP downloads, while Rescue is portable and has no installer; both pages mention SHA-256 checksums.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitbroom.app

Failing drives

Rescue provides two-pass, ddrescue-style imaging for failing drives before recovery from the image.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitbroom.app

Junk cleanup

YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · bitbroom.app

Rescue formats

Rescue supports signature carving for formats including JPEG, PNG, HEIC, PDF, ZIP/DOCX, MP4/MOV, MP3, RAR and SQLite, with validation before results are shown.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitbroom.app

Rescue recovery

Rescue recovers deleted files from NTFS, FAT32 and exFAT, and can carve files from formatted media.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitbroom.app

Rescue safety

Rescue opens the source drive read-only and requires recovered files to be saved to a different drive.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitbroom.app

Scheduled maintenance

YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · bitbroom.app

Security and privacy

The maker describes both tools as MIT-licensed and says they have no ads or telemetry; Cleaner’s only network call is an optional update check.Read 11 Oct 2026 · bitbroom.app

Windows support

windows 10 and 11Read 20 Sep 2026 · bitbroom.app

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• PC optimisers#43 of 1048.0
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• Data recovery software#81 of 1287.5