DerivedData. Gradle caches. Old simulators. npm’s attic. Every build tool keeps a private stash it never cleans up. DevCleaner finds it all, tells you what’s safe to delete, and frees the space in one click.
This is super useful, as a software engineer (and a vibe coder :P) i'm ramping up so much GBs that sometimes my top tier macos pro even hangs and asks me to free up space, turns out alot of these GBs are build artifacts! thanks OP
Fantastic job! I didn't know about this problem until I've try it. And its HUGE. Thank you that you built DevCleaner!
Love the idea. It's always surprising how much disk space developer tools quietly consume 😅
Xcode projects + DerivedData is basically a hidden storage leak on every Mac.
Feels like a mix between backup tool and cleanup utility, which is actually interesting.
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From the first scan to the safe-only clean — the whole idea in twenty-two seconds.
DevCleaner ships with scanners for twenty-three ecosystems — from classic build tools to AI editors and local LLMs — plus any folder you add yourself. Each one knows exactly where its tool hides caches — and which ones grow back on the next build. Prefer the manual route? The developer's guide to freeing disk space on a Mac shows every path and command.
brew cleanup --prune=allDisk cleaners that treat your SDK like a temp folder are how weekends die. Every category in DevCleaner carries an explicit risk level — and the dangerous ones are never selected for you.
Pure caches that regenerate automatically on your next build. Deleting them costs you one slower compile, nothing more.
Things that grow back slowly — simulators you might still need, archived builds, emulator images. Visible, measured, but never pre-selected.
SDKs and device symbols that can break your environment. DevCleaner shows you their size, asks twice, and never touches them on its own.
No dock icon, no window cluttering your desktop. Just a small badge quietly reporting how many gigabytes you could get back right now.
Sizes stream in live as the scanner walks your caches — every category, every toolchain, counted byte by byte in front of you.
Quick Clean wipes everything marked safe. Or pick categories yourself and watch the freed space add up in real time.
1.9 reaches Source Packages, browser testing caches, Android snapshots, and System Temp — and turns Simulator Slimmer into a full device manager: every device, app names in the caption, Erase or Delete per device or per iOS version.
SwiftPM Source Packages, Xcode Build Logs, Browser Testing Caches (Playwright, Electron, Cypress, Puppeteer), Android Emulator Snapshots, and System Temp older than 7 days — gigabytes that used to hide outside the usual DerivedData sweep.
Every CoreSimulator device shows up, with installed app names as captions. Choose
simctl erase or full delete per device — plus bulk Erase/Delete on each iOS runtime group
(with Mixed when devices disagree).
Deleting an iOS simulator runtime no longer fails silently. And when you want a clean slate before picking categories, Unselect All clears every selection in one click.
Old projects you can't quite throw away sit on your disk for years. DevCleaner archives a whole project into a single file, strips the regenerable junk, and brings it back exactly as it was with one click — dependencies and all.
Spot projects you haven't touched in months and pack each one into a single compact file. node_modules and build folders are stripped, the lockfiles that rebuild them are kept.
A dry-run restore opens and verifies the archive and shows exactly what will land where — without writing a thing. Built for production projects you can't afford to lose.
Bring a project back to its original path and let DevCleaner re-run the install for you. The original is never deleted until the archive is verified safe.
Manual cleanup, scanning and Quick Clean are free forever, no account needed. Ghost Projects and Project Artifacts show you what's stale for free; restoring a hibernated project is always free. Pro adds the automation: scheduled cleaning, Smart Triggers when you quit a dev app, and Project Hibernation with batch archive. Try all of it free for 14 days.
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Every gigabyte DevCleaner reclaims, you can also clear yourself from the Terminal. These guides give the exact paths, the commands, and what's safe to delete.
Straight answers about pricing, safety, and how DevCleaner compares to general Mac cleaners.
Free download. Scans in seconds. The only thing you’ll lose is the clutter.
Download DevCleaner for macOS ↓DevCleaner is one of three apps I build for people who ship their own software — from the first idea to the first beta.