# Clean Master APP **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 20, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438 "2016-09-20T13:45:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438/1 "2016-09-20T13:45:43Z")
You promise me so much for free then you burn through over a gigabyte of my data and use so much energy that my battery is sometimes at 85% when I wake up in the morning. I think the FCC or FTC should require apps to disclose how much data they will use before you buy or download the app. Like nutritional information on the side of the cereal box or potential side effects that come with drugs. ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438/2 "2016-09-20T13:59:30Z")
What does it do? Have a link? ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438/3 "2016-09-20T14:05:09Z")
> [@Kelevra](#): > > What does it do? Have a link? It cleans your ram, it manages your battery usage, its a basic smartphone utility app. Its very popular. > **[Featured Android App Review: Clean Master \[Tools\] - Talk Android](https://www.talkandroid.com/reviews/featured-android-app-review-clean-master-tools/)** > > Spring is in the air folks and you know what that means, spring cleaning. When people say, "spring cleaning" people always think about cleaning their house or ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438/4 "2016-09-20T15:18:47Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > You promise me so much for free then you burn through over a gigabyte of my data and use so much energy that my battery is sometimes at 85% when I wake up in the morning. > > I think the FCC or FTC should require apps to disclose how much data they will use before you buy or download the app. Like nutritional information on the side of the cereal box or potential side effects that come with drugs. That sounds like a terribly, scammy, app. I don’t know how anyone can recommend it. > [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > It cleans your ram, it manages your battery usage, its a basic smartphone utility app. Its very popular. > > [Featured Android App Review: Clean Master [Tools] - Talk Android](http://www.talkandroid.com/reviews/apps/featured-android-app-review-clean-master-tools/) Wait, what? 😕 Did you just recommend the terrible scammy app you pitted literally 20 minutes earlier? I would report your second post for spamming, but your first post is such terrible marketing I have to assume it’s accidental. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438/5 "2016-09-20T15:53:51Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > You promise me so much for free then you burn through over a gigabyte of my data and use so much energy that my battery is sometimes at 85% when I wake up in the morning. I don’t know about you, but my phone is plugged in overnight. So it’s at 100% in the morning whatever happens. And at home, the phone is on WiFi, so there’s little to no data usage. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438/6 "2016-09-20T17:37:14Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > That sounds like a terribly, scammy, app. I don’t know how anyone can recommend it. > > Wait, what? 😕 Did you just recommend the terrible scammy app you pitted literally 20 minutes earlier? > > I would report your second post for spamming, but your first post is such terrible marketing I have to assume it’s accidental. No, I’m not advertising it. I’m just pointing out that this horrible app is very popular and does some basic stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438/7 "2016-09-20T17:40:19Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I don’t know about you, but my phone is plugged in overnight. So it’s at 100% in the morning whatever happens. And at home, the phone is on WiFi, so there’s little to no data usage. I once had a virus that would cause my computer to open up a webpage without me even knowing it was open (I don’t know how you run a webpage without it showing up on the taskbar), click on every fucking ad on the page, run every video on the page. My computer was running slow so we opened up my history and I was visiting hundreds of websites a minute. If I didn’t look at my history, I would never have known that I was running up clicks for some scam artists web page. This app does something similar in that it pushes all these ads onto your phone so even if you are using wifi, the battery is being drained almost as fast as it is recharging. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438/8 "2016-09-20T17:50:34Z")
Still, why not just leave the phone plugged in overnight? It’s probably just sitting on your nightstand all night anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438/9 "2016-09-20T18:00:53Z")
Sounds like a really super, useful, awesome app. By the way, how did your RAM get so dirty? ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438/10 "2016-09-20T19:21:04Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Sounds like a really super, useful, awesome app. By the way, how did your RAM get so dirty? Probably the filthy, filthy Internet. Especially _those_ websites. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438/11 "2016-09-20T20:50:14Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > It cleans your ram, it manages your battery usage, its a basic smartphone utility app. Its very popular. It does nothing useful. Just remove it. > **[Is the Clean Master app for Android really useful?](https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Clean-Master-app-for-Android-really-useful)** > > Answer (1 of 93): First of all, all memory cleaning apps are useless, it will not make your phone any faster, and they don't save you any battery life. Unless of course you have a malware running in the background constantly, in which case you should... ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438/12 "2016-09-20T20:55:17Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > You promise me so much for free then you burn through over a gigabyte of my data and **use so much energy that my battery is sometimes at 85% when I wake up in the morning**. > [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > It cleans your ram, it **manages your battery usage** , its a basic smartphone utility app. Its very popular. So the app that manages your battery usage has such high battery usage that you can barely even charge your phone. Sounds awesome. I can understand why you’re using it. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438/13 "2016-09-20T22:58:59Z")
I have used it and didn’t opt to install it again after I replaced my phone. I didn’t notice any data usage or problems with it at all, but as the link says it appears to be a solution in search of a problem. I did like the ability to kill apps instead of going through multiple menus. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438/14 "2016-09-22T13:33:10Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > It does nothing useful. Just remove it. > > [https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Clean-Master-app-for-Android-really-useful](https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Clean-Master-app-for-Android-really-useful) Yeah. I removed it before posting this thread but they should really tell you that they are going to burn through a gig of data a month before you load it. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clean-master-app/766438/15 "2016-09-22T13:42:32Z")
I used that app once. Once. POS cleaned out my phone’s operating system along with most of my files. I’d dearly love to hear that the jerks who developed it are going to jail. Too bad promulgating that crap evidently isn’t a criminal offense.