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Pearcleaner

An open-source 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. There's probably parts of the code that could be done better as I'm fairly new...

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Mac
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  •  86 Open Issues
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HealthAndWealth
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The app is amazing, but the developer has put it on hold since they don't have access to a macOS device to develop it any further. Such a shame because this was the best uninstaller app out there.

kat_nova
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If you're not sure about what you're touching inside this app, it can wreak havoc over your entire system. Tread carefully. Power users only is more than a caution here. Did i mention that it's also an unsigned binary?

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What is Pearcleaner?

An open-source 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. There's probably parts of the code that could be done better as I'm fairly new to Swift, if you have suggestions I'm open to hearing them!

Features:

  • 100% Swift/SwiftUI
  • Super small app size (~2MB)
  • 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 ~2mb 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
  • Mini mode which can be enabled from Settings
  • Can drop apps to uninstall directly on the Pearcleaner Dock icon itself or the drop target in the app window
  • Will differentiate between regular apps and Safari web-apps with a "web" label next to each item in the list
  • Requires Full Disk permission to search for files and also Accessibility to delete/restore files
  • Built-in auto-updater that pulls latest release notes and binaries from GitHub Releases (Might not work well if app is not in /Applications folder because of permissions)