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Purge
Free up your Mac. Safely.
A free, open source MacOS utility that finds the caches and forgotten files eating your disk and clears them to the trash. Nothing leaves the trash.
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Hey, I'm Jithin. I'm a designer, and I built Purge. I don't come from a dev background, I design products, and I use AI-assisted tools to actually build them. Purge started because my Mac kept filling up with cache and junk, and every cleaner I tried felt like it was designed to make me nervous: scary warnings, permanent delete by default, unclear about what it was actually touching. So I designed the one I wanted. Calm by default. Everything goes to Trash first, nothing is ever gone for good. An allowlist decides what's even eligible to touch, and the whole thing is open source, so if you don't trust me, you can just read the code instead. That tension, between building something that needs to be technically careful and designing something that feels calm to use, was the actual interesting part of this project for me. It's free and open source, and happy to answer anything, about the product, the design decisions, or the AI-assisted build process. Happy building!
About Purge on Product Hunt
“Free up your Mac. Safely.”
Purge was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 11 upvotes and 10 comments, placing #65 on the daily leaderboard. A free, open source MacOS utility that finds the caches and forgotten files eating your disk and clears them to the trash. Nothing leaves the trash.
On the analytics side, Purge competes within Mac, Open Source, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 729.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Purge performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Purge?
Purge was hunted by Ijas Ahammed J. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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