Sparkle

Sparkle delivers a safe, free Windows optimization suite for debloating, disabling tracking, cleaning junk, and applying performance tweaks.​

Sparkle is a free, open-source Windows optimization tool designed to make your PC faster, cleaner, and more private. With Sparkle, you can easily debloat Windows by removing unnecessary apps and services, disable Microsoft tracking to enhance privacy, and apply performance tweaks to boost speed. Its cleaner removes junk and temporary files, while every change is safe and fully reversible. Sparkle also features a modern, user-friendly interface with automatic updates, making system maintenance simple. Explore over 39 tweaks, from disabling telemetry and hibernation to optimizing network and game settings, all aimed at customizing and enhancing your Windows experience.
Sparkle supports Windows 10 and 11.






v2.18.0

• Added no-sandbox flag to help sparkle run on more systems
• Fixed Toasts getting stuck when Appling tweaks too quickly
• Fix Chocolatey apps appearing in search when winget is selected.
• Added Offline Modal
• Added Tweak Reapply Logic, Press Alt when on the tweaks page to reapply any tweak
• Fixed Some broken app icons
• Updated Docs to match app logic
• Added Selected Apps Button on apps page to view currently selected apps
• Added Warning to the revert applied tweaks tab
• Added Package manager selection modal on apps page first visit

Release 2.18.0 · thedogecraft/sparkle​

Sparkle 2.19.0​

Changelog:

• Enhanced app installation text
• Updated Chocolatey installation success message to include restart prompt
• Simplified and sped up Chocolatey and Winget installation checks
• Added various developer options section to settings page
• Created Scoop bucket (currently not working)
• Added uv to apps
• Added YASB to apps
• Added disable RDP warnings tweak
• Added force local apps toggle to settings
• Fixed reapply button now only shows for reversible tweaks
• Added Phone Link to debloat script
• Updated Debloat Script Theme to dark mode
• Bumped debloat script version
• Fixed some debloat script logic
• Fixed React strict mode disabled in dev to prevent unnecessary rerenders and double fetching
• Updated cmd style on utilities page
• Fixed broken app icons
• Added option to hide app icons on apps page for improved performance
• Added Tortoise Git

Sparkle 2.20.0​

Sparkle supports Windows 10 and 11.

Changelog:

• Debloat Tweak has animated border
• New homepage loading UI
• New Tweak Modal (Markdown Supported)
• Refactored GPU Detection
• Added Tests with vitest
• Added foobar2000 to apps
• Added Localsend to apps
• Updated Modal Styles
• Added styles for disabled inputs
• Added Animated Border to debloat-windows tweak
• Bumped dependencies
• Refactor System info logic for speed
• Tweak info modals now support Markdown
• Added Clear System info cache to settings
• Redesigned Home Page Loading UI
• Changed Some Icons around the app

Sparkle 2.20.1
Changelog:

• You can now change the Animation Direction from Up, Left, or Off.
• Added configurable animation direction (Up, Left, Off) for improved accessibility
• Added TTL caching to the system info backend
• Refactored tweak application flow to await NvidiaProfileInspector
• Improved IPC listener cleanup to correctly remove specific listeners
• Fixed online status not updating after successful network requests
• Updated system info tests to support backend caching
• Removed electron-toolkit utils dependency in favor of internal is.dev helper
• Fixed unwanted files and folders being included in application bundles

Sparkle 2.21.0

Changelog:

• Updated Electron to V43
• Added App Install terminal (you can now view logs for the apps that you're installing)
• Added Debloat+ Beta (you can now debloat apps installed on your system rather than selecting a list. Warning this is a very early feature and may not work as intended)
• Added admin status check for edge cases where sparkle is not running as admin
• Optimized Cleaner Page Logic
• Optimized DNS Ping test on DNS Manager Page (Total time drops from 5-10+ seconds to ~1-2 seconds)
• Restore Page now uses the new Table Component

Sparkle 2.21.1​

Changelog:

If you have disable-location-tracking or detailed-bsod It is HIGHLY RECOMENDED YOU REAPPLY THEM. You may do this by holding alt and pressing the reapply button.

• Fixed Severely incorrect disable-location-tracking tweak
• Fixed detailed-bsod tweak applying the incorrect value
• Added sanitization for IP and hostname in DNS handling
• Added sanitization for restore point names to prevent code execution
• Fixed set-services-to-manual tweak setting values incorrectly on unapply
• Fixed disable-telemetry Setting the wrong value when unapplied

Sparkle 2.22.0​

• Added back Discord RPC
• Added Discord RPC toggle in settings
• Added input validation for app IDs
• Fixed Clicking a link in changelog modal replaces the Sparkle window
• Added remove-edge tweak
• Added disable-taskbar-search tweak
• Added Images to Sparkle Installer
• Updated Sparkle Installer to be interactive
• You can now change where you install Sparkle
• Optimized Debloat+ (it should be faster now)
  • Added parallelized icon extraction
  • Added icon caching to disk
  • Added async file existence check
  • Fixed missing publisher field

Sparkle 2.23.0

• Fixed Welcome modal lag on apps page.
• Fixed Errors being swallowed when applying or reverting tweaks
• Fixed Broken Tray Icon
• Added The following apps: Itch.io, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, VSCodium, UniGetUI
• Added Caching To the Apps page
• Added Lazy loading with fade in animation to Apps page
• Changed update check to only check on startup #114
• Updated Online check method

Sparkle 2.24.0

• Fixed horizontal scrolling on tweaks page when using trackpad
• Patched discord-rpc-new library to not loop when discord is not running
• Enhanced disable-telemetry tweak by adding Windows Error Reporting and start menu suggestions settings
• Refactored Cleaner logic (should be a lot faster now)
• Updated Changelog modal styles. Trimmed checksums out of changelog modal
• Updated Reapply Button. It now replaces the tweaks toggle switch/apply button instead of floating.
• Changed: Revert Applied Tweaks is now the default tab on the restore page.
• Updated Modal styles on restore page, Removed new badge on Revert Applied Tweaks tab
• Added AI Category for tweaks (for tweaks that disable a windows AI feature)
• Updated Scoop More Info on downloading with scoop