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
Version 3.9.1:
- App list scrolling stutter - #112
- Add brew cleanup to sentinel monitor - #110
- Use bash shell for brew cleanup - #108
- Fix app name localization in app list - #110
- Add PreferencePanes directory to search locations - #114
- Only launch brew cleanup terminal if cask is found
- Miscellaneous window settings fixes
- Setting the updater to Never performs no network requests now + various other updater fixes
- When Full Disk permission is checked, it will now auto-populate Pearcleaner in the OS permission list to enable the toggle.
- Overhaul Settings window layout completely
Compatibility
macOS 13 or later
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