Status: Maintained
Version: 3.8.1
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Pearcleaner is now signed/notarized with an Apple Developer account.
Any app on version v3.7.6 and below that used the old unsigned certificate had its authorization revoked when I switched to signing/notarizing the app with a valid apple certificate. With this in mind, the auto-updater built-in to the app and homebrew updating will likely not work. This will require you to manually remove the old app and download the latest version from GitHub to get to the signed version successfully.
You might need to fully remove and re-add Pearcleaner in the Accessibility and Full Disk Access permissions panes using the -/+ buttons if you get a permissions error on launch. Toggling the permission off and on doesn't register unfortunately as macOS sees these as two separate apps now since the certificates are different. Use the permissions checker in the Pearcleaner general settings tab to navigate to these locations quickly to make these changes.
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!
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Important
Pearcleaner is licensed under Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause. This means that you can do anything you'd like with the source, modify it, contribute to it, etc., but the license explicitly prohibits any form of monetization for Pearcleaner or any modified versions of it. See full license HERE
- Signed/notarized
- Swift/SwiftUI
- Small app size (~4MB)
- Leftover file search for finding remaining files from previously uninstalled applications
- 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
- One-Shot Mode
- Can drop apps to uninstall directly on the Pearcleaner Dock icon or the app window
- 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
- New feature alert on app startup
- Condition builder to easily include or exclude files from searches when file names don't match the app name/bundle id very well
- Export app file list search results
- Optional Homebrew cleanup
- Include extra directories to search for apps in
- Exclude files/folders from the leftover file search
- Custom auto-updater that pulls latest release notes and binaries from GitHub Releases (Pearcleaner should run from
/Applicationsfolder to avoid permission issues)
Themes
Mini Mode
Finder Extension
Leftover File Search
Condition Builder
Settings
Warning
- When submitting issues, please use the appropriate issue template corresponding with your problem HERE
- For issues with unrelated files being found or not enough files being found, try the new Condition Builder (Hammer icon next to uninstall button) before submitting an APP bug
- Templates not filled out with the requested details will be closed. Unfortunately I don't have the time to act as help desk support asking for all the missing information. Help me help you 🙂
Note
- MacOS 13.0+ (Most functions might work on a Beta OS, but I will not support bugs for these until they are out of Beta channel.)
- Full Disk permission to search for files and also Accessibility permission to delete/restore files
Releases
Pre-compiled, always up-to-date versions are available from my releases page.
Homebrew
You can add the app via Homebrew by tapping my homebrew repo directly:
brew install alienator88/homebrew-cask/pearcleaner
- Much appreciation to Freemacsoft's AppCleaner and Sun Knudsen's app-cleaner script
- DharsanB for sponsoring my apple developer account
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