Pearcleaner for Mac
Open-source app cleaner.
Free
In English
Version 4.4.0When 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 4.4.0
- Add SMAppService privileged helper tool as preferred mechanism to execute privileged operations
- Add app lipo option for universal binaries to remove unused architectures
- Add size label for development folders - via ismailcarlik PR
- Add orphaned file association for current session - #218
- Add option to show/hide Finder extension icon since apparently it's ugly AF - #223
- Add logic to remove packages which show in pkgutil if they match the uninstalled app’s bundle id - #134
- Replace manual plist loading for launchctl with SMAppService
- Show Trash error icon if any issues are encountered during trash operations
- Fix updater sometimes getting stuck at 50% due to user account permissions
- Fix some situations where trashing non-privileged files using FileManager API caused issues - #222, #228
Pearcleaner for Mac
Free
In English
Version 4.4.0
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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 ❤️
Oct 9 2024
Version: 3.9.1
Once again, still wondering how this program compares to the excellent (and free!) program called AppCleaner. Would be good to have that. I for one will continue to promote AppCleaner.
