ChatGPT Cleaner: bulk delete and archive conversations

ChatGPT lets you delete or archive conversations, but only one at a time. There is no "select all", no shift-click range, no bulk action in the sidebar. Cleaning out a couple of years of throwaway chats turns into a click-confirm-wait loop.

ChatGPT Cleaner is a Chrome extension that adds bulk delete and bulk archive to the ChatGPT sidebar. Hover a conversation, get a checkbox. Pick a range with Shift+Click. Hit Delete Selected or Archive Selected, watch a progress bar do the rest.

It works on both the standard chat list and inside ChatGPT Projects.

What it does

• Checkboxes on every conversation in the sidebar. They show up on hover so the normal UI stays clean.
• Shift+Click range selection: click one checkbox, hold Shift, click another, everything in between is selected.
• Two bulk actions:
• Delete Selected — permanent removal (blue progress bar).
• Archive Selected — keeps the conversations accessible under Settings → Archived chats (yellow progress bar).
• Real-time progress indicator so you know how many of N have been processed and can leave the tab alone.
• Works in both modes: the regular chat list and conversations inside ChatGPT Projects (custom GPTs). The checkboxes adapt to whichever view you are on.

Privacy

The extension runs entirely in the browser:

• 💡 No data leaves your machine. The extension acts on ChatGPT's own delete and archive endpoints exactly the way the official UI does, just in a loop.
• No tracking, analytics, or telemetry.
• The manifest declares zero permissions other than running a content script on chatgpt.com.
• It does not read message content; it only operates on the conversation list.

Install

ChatGPT Cleaner - Chrome Web Store

Allow deleting and archiving multiple chats with a progress indicator in ChatGPT. Supports both regular chat mode and project mode.

chromewebstore.google.com

Works on any Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera).

Use it

1. Open ChatGPT.com.
2. Hover a conversation in the sidebar — a checkbox appears on the left.
3. Click the checkboxes for the conversations you want to clean up. Shift+Click to grab a range.
4. The action bar at the bottom shows Delete Selected and Archive Selected with the current count.
5. Pick one. The progress bar tracks each operation.

⚠️ Delete is permanent. ChatGPT does not have a trash. If you are not sure, use Archive Selected instead — archived chats remain in Settings → Archived chats → Manage and can be restored.

When to use it

• New laptop or new account, importing nothing, want to start clean.
• Old throwaway prompts from a year of experimenting with the model.
• A ChatGPT Project that accumulated dozens of short test conversations.
• Periodic clean-up to keep the sidebar usable.

See also

If you also use Claude.ai, the sibling extension does the same bulk-delete job there.

Claude Cleaner: bulk delete Claude.ai conversations

A Chrome extension that adds bulk delete to the Claude.ai sidebar, with Shift+Click range selection and a real-time progress bar. No permissions beyond claude.ai, no data leaves the browser.

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