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Settings

Open Settings from the gear button in the main window or with ⌘,. Four tabs cover everyday preferences, scan behaviour, folders and your license.

General

  • Launch at login — keep the menu bar badge and automation available after reboot
  • Show reclaimable size in menu bar — live number next to the wand icon
  • Confirm before cleaning — extra confirmation step before Clean Now
  • Storage Hall of Shame — dashboard medals for your top three disk hogs
  • Share anonymous stats — contribute bytes-freed totals to the public counter on devcleaner.app (no paths or identifiers)
  • Send Feedback — pre-filled email with your app and macOS version

Scanning

  • Rescan interval — manual only, or every 5 / 15 / 60 minutes
  • Notify when reclaimable exceeds — threshold notification (e.g. 5 GB)
  • Auto Clean (Pro) — clean safe caches when they exceed a size threshold, with optional minimum age in days
  • Smart Triggers (Pro) — clean an app's safe caches when you quit it, with optional minimum age

Folders

Custom scan paths

Add any folder DevCleaner should measure alongside the built-in tool scanners — useful for ad-hoc cache directories.

Project roots

Folders where your code lives (e.g. ~/Projects). DevCleaner walks these (max depth 4, capped at 50 finds) for:

  • Stale Project Artifactsnode_modules, Pods, .build, target, build, .venv
  • Ghost Projects — DerivedData tied to deleted or abandoned Xcode workspaces
  • Unused Projects — whole-project hibernation candidates

Abandoned after sets the staleness threshold (default 180 days), based on .git index or directory mtime.

Exclusions

Paths DevCleaner should never scan or delete — monorepo subtrees, active client work, network mounts, etc.

Archive destination (Pro)

Where hibernated archives are moved — external drive or iCloud folder recommended. Configure filename template, format (zip / tar.gz) and default light vs full archive.

License

Activate a key, start the 14-day trial, or deactivate this Mac. See License, trial & pricing.