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Quick answer

Free the license seat first (Settings, or your account page), then remove the app: drag it out of /Applications on macOS, use Apps & features on Windows, delete ~/.local/bin/easyswitch on Linux. Settings live in one folder per platform, and the permissions you granted are revoked in system settings.

Uninstalling is three things: free the license seat, remove the app, and — if you want nothing left behind — delete its settings folder and undo the permissions you granted.

First: free the license seat

If you activated a paid key on this computer, remove it before you delete the app, so the seat goes back to your license instead of being held by a machine that no longer exists.

  • In the app: Settings → Remove license.
  • Or on the website: your account lists every activated computer with a Remove button.

If you’ve already deleted the app, use the account page — it works either way. See Licensing for how seats work.

macOS

  1. Quit EasySwitch from the menu bar icon.
  2. Drag EasySwitch from /Applications (or ~/Applications) to the Trash.
  3. Delete the settings folder if you want nothing left: ~/Library/Application Support/EasySwitch/

Then revoke the permissions in System Settings → Privacy & Security. EasySwitch may appear under Accessibility and Input Monitoring; if you used a second monitor, also under Screen Recording and Local Network. Select the row and remove it with the − button.

Windows

  • Installed with the installer: Settings → Apps → Installed apps → EasySwitch → Uninstall.
  • Portable build: quit the app from the system tray, then delete the folder you unzipped.

Settings live in %APPDATA%\EasySwitch\ — delete that folder to remove them.

Windows Defender Firewall keeps its allow rule after the app is gone. It’s harmless, but to tidy it: Windows Security → Firewall & network protection → Allow an app through firewall, then remove the EasySwitch entries.

The display driver. If you ever extended a display from this PC, Windows installed a signed display driver at that moment (see Second monitor). It stays installed and does nothing when EasySwitch isn’t running. To remove it as well, open Device Manager → Display adapters, right-click the virtual display adapter and choose Uninstall device, ticking Delete the driver software for this device.

Linux

If you installed with the one-line script:

rm ~/.local/bin/easyswitch
rm ~/.local/share/applications/easyswitch.desktop

Settings live in ~/.config/EasySwitch/ — delete that folder to remove them.

Two things from setup are system-wide, so remove them only if nothing else needs them:

sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/99-easyswitch-uinput.rules
sudo gpasswd -d "$USER" input     # only if you added yourself for EasySwitch

Log out and back in for the group change to apply. See Install on Linux for what these did.

What’s left afterwards

Nothing on our side. EasySwitch has no account inside the app and sends no telemetry, so removing it removes everything except the activation record for your license — which is exactly what “Remove” on the account page clears. Files you received are ordinary files and stay where they landed (an EasySwitch folder inside Downloads, by default).

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