1. Install
- Download the DevCleaner .dmg and open it.
- Drag DevCleaner into your Applications folder.
- Launch it. On first run macOS may ask you to confirm opening an app downloaded from the internet; that is expected.
DevCleaner runs as a menu bar app, so it has no Dock icon by default. Look for the wand icon in your menu bar near the clock.
2. Your first scan
DevCleaner scans automatically the first time it launches and keeps the results fresh in the background. When it finds reclaimable space, the menu bar shows the total you could free right next to the icon.
Nothing is ever deleted during a scan. Scanning only measures what is on disk so you can decide what to remove.
3. Two ways to use it
The menu bar panel
Click the wand icon for a quick panel: the total reclaimable size, your tools sorted by size, and a Quick Clean button that frees the safe categories in one click and tells you exactly how much it will reclaim first.
The main window
For full control, open the main window from the panel. While it is open DevCleaner behaves like a regular app: it appears in the Dock and the ⌘Tab switcher and gets a menu bar, including Settings (⌘,). Here you see every tool broken into categories, each with a proportional size bar colored by risk.
4. Select and clean
Each category has a checkbox. Safe categories are pre-selected; risky ones are not. Tick what you want, watch the Selected to clean total at the top update, then press Clean Now.
DevCleaner always tells you how much will be freed before anything is deleted, and risky selections ask for a second confirmation. You are never one misclick away from losing something important.
That is it. To learn why some items are ticked and others are not, read how DevCleaner keeps you safe. To never think about it again, set up automatic cleanup.
Get DevCleaner
Free up the gigabytes your dev tools hoard, without breaking your setup.
Download for macOS ↓macOS only. Requires a recent version of macOS.