Pearcleaner for Mac
Open-source app cleaner.
Free
In English
Version 4.5.0When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
Pearcleaner overview
Pearcleaner is an open-source app cleaner inspired by Freemacsoft's AppCleaner and Sun Knudsen's Privacy Guides post on his app-cleaner script.
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
- Requires Full Disk permission to search for files and also Accessibility to delete/restore files
What’s new in version 4.5.0
- Fix homebrew cleanup terminal for NuShell users - PR264 via @Noriskky
- Get file sizes for file view list from spotlight where available, fallback to manual size search
- Add supplemental spotlight index file search, off by default - Enable in Settings > General
- Don’t run brew cleanup if main app bundle was not removed during file deletion
- Fix brew cleanup not triggering when app deleted via sentinel trash monitor - #269
- Add “All” option to Development environments dropdown to see all folders/files in one view - #267
- Fix filename appending for duplicate file names in Trash - PR273 via @jokot
Pearcleaner for Mac
Free
In English
Version 4.5.0
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May 26 2025
Version: 4.4.4
Would still like to see an in depth comparison of Pearcleaner and AppCleaner.
Feb 18 2025
Version: 4.2.1
Great app cleaning utiliity that works efficiently has never, so far, suggested deleting the wrong files. The price is also unbeatable. Thanks, developer!
Jan 23 2025
Version: 4.0.6
When I add the Utilities folder to pearcleaner it doesn't show the apps in Utilities folder. Am I missing something?
Nov 6 2024
Version: 3.9.3
best App cleaner i'll know... and have them all...
@Akent lol ... you have no clue... and i'll wonder why you post here?
Pearcleaner is so much better than AppCleaner and the rest.... but if you like the other... stick with it and let us work with the better tool... looks lie you have no clue what the app do better than the rest & also it's Universal...
@Dev ... well well done ... it's not easy task... and some have a fxxk up system ... but Pearcleaner newer let me alone... many many thx also for updating and keeping it free ❤️
