Every Android smartphone comes with dozens of pre-installed apps that are difficult or impossible to remove. Many of these apps are necessary, others are very useful and popular among users, but there is a third category – bloatware. With a fairly new free app, you now have the ability to remove the unwanted pre-installed apps, even without root.
Bloatware is apps that are pre-installed on the smartphone and take up valuable storage space and resources but are not wanted by the user. In some cases, these apps can be removed, but in many others, they cannot. The range of apps extends from the usual taxi apps to ordering food and news sites to actually established apps from Microsoft and Facebook.
The apps are pre-installed either by the smartphone manufacturers or the mobile network operators in order to open up further earning opportunities with the devices. Strictly speaking, many Google apps would also be pre-installed bloatware, but these are accepted and even desired by the vast majority of users. Deleting these apps is often not possible, but with a new free app, it’s easy. This takes over the entire process of bloatware liberation.
With the Android Debloater, you get a list of all apps installed on your smartphone that is classified as bloatware. There is also a pre-selection and the simple option of removing the app at the push of a button. This should clean the smartphone to such an extent that it can be considered bloatware-free from its own point of view.
There are several ways to remove these apps even without root. What makes the app really valuable is the built-in list of known bloatware apps. Even as a savvy user, sometimes you don’t know if it’s a good idea to remove App XY from your smartphone. After all, many system functions within Android have now been outsourced to apps. Removing the wrong one can have serious repercussions.
So you get an editorially maintained list and the certainty that a well-known and previously trusted developer from the XDA community is behind it. That doesn’t mean that there will never be problems, but I can still recommend the app with a clear conscience. It is best to only remove what really bothers you or takes up a lot of storage space. If you are unsure, then better leave it alone.