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CLUSTER DISK-USAGE-MACOS · 49 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-14

macOS disk cleanup apps

This cluster consists of native macOS utilities that scan disks for caches, junk files, logs, and large items, then delete or move them to Trash, often with user confirmation. Some also handle app uninstallation, duplicates, and startup items. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from – only two pre-index entries exist. On traction, BinaryExplorer leads with 34 stars, followed by DiskProbe (8) and AmuxAICleanRelease (7).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

NOV 2022: 1AUG 2026: 12SEP 2026: 33OCT 2026: 3
NOV 2022OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 4 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled

Operator · 13 hobby · 4 indie · 3 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 21MacMate0★20 dayslivehobbymacOS utility that scans and removes system junk, caches, and other unneeded files to free up disk space.
  2. 22backspacer0★20 dayslivehobbyUtility that scans a developer's Mac for caches and build leftovers, ranks them by removal safety, and deletes selected items to free disk space.
  3. 23DevCleaner0★11 days—indiemacOS app that scans and cleans developer disk caches, including Xcode derived data, Docker, package caches, and local AI models, to reclaim storage.
  4. 24cdisk0★23 days—hobbymacOS app for everyday users that scans disk usage, identifies large files and caches, and cleans up storage locally.
  5. 25spacebar0★5 daysliveMac app that visualizes disk usage by category and folder and safely removes caches, logs, and leftover files.
  6. 26ai-disk-clean0★14 days—hobbyMac app that scans disk usage, identifies caches and AI coding build artifacts, and safely cleans selected files with a recovery option.
  7. 27StorageCleanerMac-OpenSource0★9 days—hand-codedindieNative macOS app that scans disk usage and helps clean large files, duplicates, app leftovers, and startup items with user confirmation.
  8. 28SpaceSweep0★13 days—indieMac app that scans disk for junk like caches, build folders and duplicates, showing risk labels for safe removal.
  9. 29space-perspective0★20 days—hobbyLocal-first desktop app for macOS that explains what files are and recommends which to clean up, archive, or keep.
  10. 30DiskEjector0★10 days—hand-codedhobbymacOS utility that shows which processes are using a disk and offers one-click eject after closing occupied apps.
  11. 31disk-snapshot-tool0★13 dayslivehobbymacOS app that lists, creates, applies, and deletes internal snapshots of virtual disk images, including UTM virtual machines.
  12. 32cruft0★13 days—hobbymacOS app that scans storage usage by activity and risk levels and safely cleans files by moving them to Trash.
  13. 33releases0★1 moliveindieNative macOS app that safely cleans development tool caches and reclaims disk space on developer machines.
  14. 34clean-projects0★14 dayslivehobbyLocal macOS dashboard that scans developer disk caches and build artifacts and lets the user selectively clean them.
  15. 35wclean1★26 days—hand-codedhobbyTerminal-based macOS cleaner that scans the library folder for caches and leftovers, moving items to Trash after explicit confirmation.
  16. 36devsift1★1 mo—hobbymacOS app that analyzes disk usage under a selected folder and proposes explainable cleanup of development caches with read-only policy rules.
  17. 37foldscale1★1 molivehand-codedmacOS app that analyzes disk space, showing folder sizes and identifying safe files to remove.
  18. 38nuke0★21 daysliveNative macOS app that scans the disk for regenerable cache files and safely deletes junk while leaving uncertain data for review.
  19. 39cachebin0★1 mo—hobbyDesktop tool that scans a developer's machine for caches, stale project artifacts and large files, showing cleanup risk with trash-based recovery.
  20. 40cachepilot0★28 days—hobbymacOS disk cleaner that scans dependency and AI tool caches and moves them to Trash for recovery.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.