An open-source 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. There's probably parts of the code that could be done better as I'm fairly new to Swift, if you have suggestions I'm open to hearing them!

Note

Auto updater will notify of updates, but the installer seems to fail sometimes so I wouldn't depend on the Install button in v1.0 or v1.1. Replaced Install with Open in v1.2 so it will redirect to the releases page for now. Will continue working on fixing that, maybe implement Sparkleframework for updates.

Screenshots

Features

100% Swift
Super small app size (1.6MB)
Quick file search
Optional Sentinel monitor helper that can be enabled to watch Trash folder for deleted apps
Sentinel monitor is extremely small (210KB) and uses <=5mb of ram to run in the background and file watch. Communicates to app via custom url scheme instead of xpc to keep things even lighter
Mini mode
Can drop apps to uninstall directly on the App Icon itself
Requires Full Disk permission to search for files and also Accessibility to delete/restore files

Requirements

MacOS 13.0+
Using some newer SwiftUI code which requires 13.0+

Getting Pearcleaner

Releases

Pre-compiled, always up-to-date versions are available from my releases page. You might need to open this with right click-open since I don't have a paid developer account.

Homebrew

Since I don't have a paid developer account, I can't submit to the main Homebrew cask repo. You can still add the app via Homebrew by tapping my repo:

brew tap alienator88/homebrew-cask
brew install --cask pearcleaner

Thanks

Much appreciation to Freemacsoft's AppCleaner and Sun Knudsen's app-cleaner script