Pearcleaner – Mac App Cleaner

A free, source-available and fair-code licensed 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 on how macOS deals with app installation/uninstallation and getting more Swift experience. If you have suggestions I’m open to hearing them, submit a feature request!

• Orphaned file search for finding remaining files from previously uninstalled applications
• Development environments file/cache cleaning
• App Lipo to strip unneeded architectures from universal apps. No dependency on the lipo tool so no need to install xcode or command line tools
• Sentinel monitor helper that can be enabled to watch Trash folder for deleted apps to cleanup after the fact(Extremely small (210KB) and uses ~2mb of ram to run in the background and file watch)
• Mini mode which can be enabled from Settings
• Menubar icon option
• CLI support
• Drag/drop applications support
• Deep link support for automation, see wiki guide for instructions
• Optional Finder Extension which allows you to uninstall an app directly from Finder by right click > Pearcleaner Uninstall
• Theme System available with custom color selector
• Differentiate between regular, Safari web-apps and mobile apps with badges like web and iOS
• Has clean uninstall menu option for the Pearcleaner app itself if you want to stop using it and get rid of all files and launch items
• Export app bundles for migrating apps and their cache to a new system
• Export app file list search results
• Optional Homebrew cleanup
• Include extra directories to search for apps in
• Exclude files/folders from the orphaned file search
• Custom auto-updater that pulls latest release notes and binaries from GitHub Releases (Pearcleaner should run from /Applications folder to avoid permission issues)