Battle Which Free Uninstaller: IObit vs Geek vs Revo?

Nautilus

Level 2
Apr 27, 2020
94
I have used revo for years and did not ever had any problems with it , same goes for hibit. iobit is not as thorough as these two. nowadays is use uninstalr wich is part of the jv16 powertools suite i own. its slower than the rest of the uninstallers , but it does a descent job
 

mtbboy1993

Level 1
Oct 31, 2021
29
I have a lot of false positives with Revo advanced scan that it shows registry entries related to other software.
I don't think I've tried it, maybe years ago. But that doesn't sound good. So var no issues with Hibit.
 
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lokamoka820

Level 23
Mar 1, 2024
1,294
I have used revo for years and did not ever had any problems with it , same goes for hibit. iobit is not as thorough as these two. nowadays is use uninstalr wich is part of the jv16 powertools suite i own. its slower than the rest of the uninstallers , but it does a descent job
IOBiT is thorough now and safe too, but I don't like its ads and that it's running in the background, and found that it do too many connections in the background, I don't know what kind of data is sends, but it's larger than being just checking for updates.
 

roger_m

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Dec 4, 2014
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I have a lot of false positives with Revo advanced scan that it shows registry entries related to other software.
HiBit has issues with false positives too. I can't comment on how it compares with Revo in terms of false positives, as I don't use Revo anymore. But, no matter what uninstaller you use, it's a very good idea to check what they want to remove before letting them delete anything.
 

lokamoka820

Level 23
Mar 1, 2024
1,294
HiBit has issues with false positives too. I can't comment on how it compares with Revo in terms of false positives, as I don't use Revo anymore. But, no matter what uninstaller you use, it's a very good idea to check what they want to remove before letting them delete anything.
These issues make me sometimes thinking to rely on O&O AppBuster or use BCUninstaller instead of all other uninstallers.
 

Ashish1+1

Level 2
Verified
Nov 29, 2016
66
Hibit in my experience is the best some Iranian programs are really good. another one is neat download manager, the guy created a download manager for his own use on Mac and ported it to Windows in native C++, shared it for free. it's just 1 megabyte! with a potent download engine, a well-written code. Iranians tend to have high rankings in programming competitions and stuff like that that's why you see just one man creating something like Hibit or neat download manager with some quality coding.
I do use Hibit and tried Neat Download Manager (NDM) for some time. But NDM downloads non- user initiated stuff on its own in the background , which just seems weird to me. Though NDM gives good speed but I tend to be more inclined nowadays towards FOSS tools as JDownloader or better as paid IDM than proprietary software on my PC.
 

Morro

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Jul 8, 2012
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I do use Hibit and tried Neat Download Manager (NDM) for some time. But NDM downloads non- user initiated stuff on its own in the background , which just seems weird to me. Though NDM gives good speed but I tend to be more inclined nowadays towards FOSS tools as JDownloader or better as paid IDM than proprietary software on my PC.

I am using NDM for a long time now, and I have never noticed one way or the other that Neat Download Manager downloads non-user initiated stuff on its own in the background? So I can not even imagine why it does/did for you.
 

rashmi

Level 12
Jan 15, 2024
562
I do use Hibit and tried Neat Download Manager (NDM) for some time. But NDM downloads non- user initiated stuff on its own in the background , which just seems weird to me. Though NDM gives good speed but I tend to be more inclined nowadays towards FOSS tools as JDownloader or better as paid IDM than proprietary software on my PC.
I am using NDM for a long time now, and I have never noticed one way or the other that Neat Download Manager downloads non-user initiated stuff on its own in the background? So I can not even imagine why it does/did for you.
Are these programs the same?
 
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Morro

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Jul 8, 2012
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Are these programs the same?

It looks like the second link is the same program, and Virustotal shows the site is clean. But I downloaded my version of Neat Download Manager from the official site, the first link you gave.

 

Game Of Thrones

Level 6
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Jun 5, 2014
291
I do use Hibit and tried Neat Download Manager (NDM) for some time. But NDM downloads non- user initiated stuff on its own in the background , which just seems weird to me. Though NDM gives good speed but I tend to be more inclined nowadays towards FOSS tools as JDownloader or better as paid IDM than proprietary software on my PC.
I've been using NDM for a long time and even sent it to Bitdefender Kaspersky and ESET labs, and all of them sent a clean report. Trendmicro says NDM is spyware but it's a false positive like all of the false positives Trendmicro has. I did not encounter a thing that looked suspicious.
in their own category, both are the best apps.are you sure you downloaded from the official website Neat Download Manager for Mac and Windows (Free Internet Download Manager Mac & Windows ) ?
 

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