Pearcleaner for Mac
Open-source app cleaner.
Free
In English
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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 5.4.3
What's New
- Ability to hide unused utility pages from global menu in Settings > Interface > Startup View - #476
- "Update All" button now shows progress in toolbar for Updater view
- Add pinyin sorting to Homebrew view and Updater view - #479
- Warn if updating MAS app with a different source as it can break MAS connection - #484
Fixes
- Fix pear list-orphaned CLI command - #472
- Fix owner of receipt to root:wheel for installd workaround - #475
- Add contentShape around sidebar toggle icons - #485
- Fix computed property not refreshing action buttons in some cases for Updater view
- Reorder some layout components in Updater view
- Translations
Pearcleaner for Mac
Free
In English
Version 5.4.3
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Dec 26, 2025
Version: 5.4.2
I would love to use the Pearcleaner App however it doesn’t appear to be compatible with Mac OS Ventura - 13.7.8?
Please assist.
Oct 13, 2025
Version: 5.2.3
For the 90th time, STILL need to see a side-by-side comparison of this program with the excellent (and free!) one AppCleaner. That is the one I use, and it works like a charm!
Sep 7, 2025
Version: 5.0.6
When I use PearCleaner to delete an App Store app, the app will appear later in the Mac App store to be updated. But it can't be updated or removed from the App Store suggestion list. (I restored the app from Time Machine to get it to stop showing up in the App Store list as a pending update). I could avoid using PearCleaner's suggestions to delete folders and files, but sometimes I forget which apps are downloaded from the App Store, so I wind up with this issue more and more.
May 26, 2025
Version: 4.4.4
Would still like to see an in depth comparison of Pearcleaner and AppCleaner.
