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 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 -
- Add option to show/hide Finder extension icon since apparently it's ugly AF -
- Add logic to remove packages which show in pkgutil if they match the uninstalled app’s bundle id -
- 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
Requirements
macOS 13 or later
Screenshots
Download File
Size: 1.9 MB
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