Memory Sweep: It's like an MIB Neuralyzer for your phone!

Who doesn't love the end of "Men in Black" when (SPOILER!) Will Smith points that Neuralyzer device at Tommy Lee Jones and erases all his memories?  Now there's an iPhone app that can do the same thing!

Well, not really, but it sure does zap the memory your phone is using, making the device run a lot smoother.

The app is called Memory Sweep, and it's available as a free download from the iTunes store.

Don't look for any bells and whistles on this one.  The definition of a focused app, Memory Sweep has literally two buttons.  The first clears up fifteen megs of memory on your phone, and the second clears up thirty.

(The developer says that it's "not recommended" to clear up more than that, so we have no idea the carnage that could ensue if you made a version of this app that cleared up fifty insane megs of precious processing memory.)

For someone who reviews iPhone apps constantly and is always downloading, deleting, and installing the latest third-party apps from the iTunes store, this is a great app.  From what I can tell, it really does make the phone run more smoothly and limits the amount of in-app crashing.

Now it's not perfect.  I've still had apps crash since using it, and the phone even froze up entirely one time, requiring a restart, but I have noticed a significant difference in some processor-heavy apps that would previously crash my system every other launch.

In addition, the app also gives you a list of all the processes that are running on your phone at one time.  You can't interact with them or close specific systems (which is probably a good thing since I have no clue what most of them are), but it's good to at least know what's going on.

This is a great option for those of us who have decided to wait to upgrade our 3G phones to 3GS.  And for free, there's really no reason not to throw this on the phone and see if it works for you.  

If you have different results, let us know in the comments below.  I'd also be interested to know if this makes a substantial difference on the 3GS.

You can download Memory Sweep HERE.

Comments

[Ray Vizzone]

We liked this app so much we wrote an article on how to use it for testing iPhone apps. Check out the article on http:://blog.testlabs.com and here http://twurl.nl/18z02e.

[Gnilema]

To bad. Not available (anymore) in the Dutch App Store. Would like to install it.

[Viva]

I cant find this app anywhere., but I really want it! Please help?