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Pearcleaner
<p align="center"> <img src="https://github.com/alienator88/Pearcleaner/assets/91337119/165f6961-f4fc-4199-bc68-580bacff6eaf" align="center" width="128" height="128" /> <br /> <strong>Status: </strong>Maintained (Bi-weekly release cadence) <br /> <strong>Version: </strong>4.0.4 <br /> <a href="https://github.com/alienator88/Pearcleaner/releases"><strong>Download</strong></a> · <a href="https://github.com/alienator88/Pearcleaner/commits">Commits</a> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pearcleaner?utm_source=badge-featured&utm_medium=badge&utm_souce=badge-pearcleaner" target="_blank"><img src="https://api.producthunt.com/widgets/embed-image/v1/featured.svg?post_id=439875&theme=neutral" alt="Pearcleaner - An open-source mac app cleaner | Product Hunt" style="width: 250px; height: 54px;" width="250" height="54" /></a> <br /> <a href="https://hellogithub.com/repository/7d671653eec144ea99bd2317db267e06" target="_blank"><img src="https://abroad.hellogithub.com/v1/widgets/recommend.svg?rid=7d671653eec144ea99bd2317db267e06&claim_uid=stBZ5iURuDKgFbV" alt="Featured｜HelloGitHub" style="width: 250px; height: 54px;" width="250" height="54" /></a> </p> </p> </br>A free, source-available and fair-code licensed Mac app cleaner inspired by Freemacsoft's AppCleaner and Sun Knudsen's Privacy Guides post on his app-cleaner script. This project was born out of wanting to learn more on how macOS deals with app installation/uninstallation and getting more Swift experience. If you have suggestions I'm open to hearing them, submit a feature request!
Table of Contents:
Translations | License | Features | Screenshots | Issues | Requirements | Download | Thanks | Other Apps
<br>Translations
If you are able to contribute to translations for the app, please see this discussion: https://github.com/alienator88/Pearcleaner/discussions/137
License
[!IMPORTANT] Pearcleaner is licensed under Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause. This means that you can do anything you'd like with the source, modify it, contribute to it, etc., but the license explicitly prohibits any form of monetization for Pearcleaner or any modified versions of it. See full license HERE
Features
- Orphaned file search for finding remaining files from previously uninstalled applications
- Development environments file/cache cleaning
- Sentinel monitor helper that can be enabled to watch Trash folder for deleted apps to cleanup after the fact(Extremely small (210KB) and uses ~2mb of ram to run in the background and file watch)
- Mini mode which can be enabled from Settings
- Menubar icon option
- CLI support
- Drag/drop applications support
- Deep link support for automation, see wiki guide for instructions
- Optional Finder Extension which allows you to uninstall an app directly from Finder by
right click > Pearcleaner Uninstall - Theme System available with custom color selector
- Differentiate between regular, Safari web-apps and mobile apps with badges like web and iOS
- Has clean uninstall menu option for the Pearcleaner app itself if you want to stop using it and get rid of all files and launch items
- Export app bundles for migrating apps and their cache to a new system
- Export app file list search results
- Optional Homebrew cleanup
- Include extra directories to search for apps in
- Exclude files/folders from the orphaned file search
- Custom auto-updater that pulls latest release notes and binaries from GitHub Releases (Pearcleaner should run from
/Applicationsfolder to avoid permission issues)
Screenshots
<img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e2e16378-dbed-4cd4-a20b-23dd0d806fdf" align="left" width="400" /> <img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4221d3ce-6190-45da-9a35-f9554196b2bf" align="center" width="400" /> <p></p> <img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fc2f6d24-d6c9-4aec-91da-3d0adc05df48" align="left" width="400" /> <img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d8e43558-071f-4ff8-8557-b0508c063c1c" align="center" width="400" /> <p></p>Issues
[!WARNING]
- When submitting issues, please use the appropriate issue template corresponding with your problem HERE
- Beta versions of macOS will not be supported until general release
Requirements
[!NOTE]
- MacOS 13.0+ [Non-beta releases]
- Full Disk permission to search for files
- Accessibility permission to delete/restore files
- Automation permission to control Finder and Terminal
Getting Pearcleaner
<details> <summary>Releases</summary>Pre-compiled, always up-to-date versions are available from my releases page.
</details> <details> <summary>Homebrew</summary>You can add the app via Homebrew:
brew install pearcleaner
Thanks
- Much appreciation to Freemacsoft's AppCleaner and Sun Knudsen's app-cleaner script
- DharsanB for sponsoring my Apple Developer account
Other Apps
Pearcleaner - An opensource app cleaner with privacy in mind
Sentinel - A GUI for controlling gatekeeper status on your Mac
Viz - Utility for extracting text from images, videos, qr/barcodes