What is Smart Clean and what does it do?

Smart Clean is our fully automated cleaning engine—a feature that many of our competitors love to lock behind a heavy paywall. For TuneUP users, this background automation is 100% free for everyone, though disabling the hourly schedule requires a Pro account.

Every single hour, Smart Clean quietly checks your drive for temporary files, system caches, and unnecessary junk. It sweeps them away completely hands-free, requiring zero user interaction.

Don't worry about your important data: Smart Clean is engineered with safety guardrails, meaning it will never touch your critical driver caches or personal files. Think of it as a set-and-forget, automated version of the standard Junk and Cache rules found in our main Cleaning section. It keeps your system tidy in the background so you can focus on what matters.