Software processing method and device

The invention relates to a software processing method and device. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a trigger command for clearing software, wherein the trigger command carriers the software identification of the software; judging whether the software is default software or not according to the software identification of the software; if the software is the default software, acquiring the classification identification of the software, and inquiring whether other software belonging to the same class as the software exists in local installed software or not; if other software belonging to the same class exists, clearing the software according to the trigger command, selecting software from the other software, and performing default software setting on the selected software to set the selected software as the default software, wherein the software belonging to the same class refers to software having the same class identification. By adopting the technical scheme provided by the invention, the situation that corresponding resources cannot be run during next execution after the clearing of the default software can be avoided, and the user experience is improved.