DevCleaner lives in your Mac's menu bar and frees the gigabytes that 22 dev ecosystems quietly hoard — Xcode, Gradle, npm, plus AI apps like Cursor, Claude & Ollama. Every item is risk-rated, so you always know what's safe to delete. Free, no account, 4 MB.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm David, a solo dev from Prague. DevCleaner exists because of a ritual every developer knows: macOS says "your disk is almost full," and the culprits are always the same — DerivedData, Gradle caches, npm's attic, simulators for iOS versions you dropped a year ago.
Existing cleaners treat your SDK like a temp folder. That's how weekends die. So I built DevCleaner around one idea: the risk level is the product.
🟢 Safe — pure caches that regenerate on your next build. Pre-selected, one click.
🟡 Warning — things that grow back slowly (old simulators, downloaded LLM models). Measured, visible, never pre-selected.
🔴 Danger — SDKs and device symbols that can break your environment. DevCleaner shows their size and never touches them on its own.
The thing that surprised me while building it: AI apps are the new cache hogs. Cursor was quietly sitting on 1.3 GB on my machine, Claude's updater keeps full copies of old versions, Ollama hoards every model you've ever pulled. DevCleaner covers 22 ecosystems — the classics plus Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, Ollama and LM Studio. Conversations, logins and settings are never touched.
Also in the box: live "reclaimable space" badge in the menu bar, background scans, optional auto-clean with age filters, 30-day history with charts.
One experiment I'd love your take on: after each cleanup the app can add a single anonymous number — bytes freed — to a community counter. No paths, no IDs, no IP stored, one toggle to turn it off. When the community passes 1 TB, the counter goes live on the site.
It's free: no account, no trial, 4 MB, notarized, auto-updates. macOS 14+, Apple Silicon & Intel.
Next up: Docker (the biggest disk hog of them all) and a finder for dead node_modules. Tell me what your favorite tool hoards and I'll add a scanner for it. 🧹
Fantastic job! I didn't know about this problem until I've try it. And its HUGE. Thank you that you built DevCleaner!
Every dev laptop eventually becomes a landfill with a keyboard. Love the idea of cleaning hidden GBs without me playing detective.
Ran this on my 512GB MacBook and it dug up 110GB of dev junk. Android Studio alone was hoarding 52GB. On a machine that small with a dozen projects open, that's basically the gap between shipping and a "disk full" popup at the worst moment.
And with what SSD upgrades cost these days, clawing back 30-100GB whenever I need it beats paying Apple for the next storage tier. Good tool.
One bit of feedback: I'd love more granularity inside the categories. Ollama's the obvious one — it shows 22GB total, but I don't want to wipe all my models at once. Let me open it up, see each model that's installed, and drop just the ones I've stopped using. Per-model control instead of all-or-nothing would make me a lot more comfortable hitting Clean Now.
This is genuinely one of those problems everyone has but nobody thinks to solve. How much space does the average user recover?
This is super useful, as a software engineer (and a vibe coder :P) i'm ramping up so much GBs that sometimes my top tier macos pro even hangs and asks me to free up space, turns out alot of these GBs are build artifacts! thanks OP, upvoted.
Wow, I had no idea AI apps were hoarding that much space! Cursor and Ollama have definitely been eating up my disk. Super timely tool, congrats on launching....
About DevCleaner on Product Hunt
“Free the gigabytes your dev tools and AI apps hoard”
DevCleaner launched on Product Hunt on June 16th, 2026 and earned 102 upvotes and 15 comments, placing #12 on the daily leaderboard. DevCleaner lives in your Mac's menu bar and frees the gigabytes that 22 dev ecosystems quietly hoard — Xcode, Gradle, npm, plus AI apps like Cursor, Claude & Ollama. Every item is risk-rated, so you always know what's safe to delete. Free, no account, 4 MB.
DevCleaner was featured in Productivity (653.9k followers), Developer Tools (514.1k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 214.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted DevCleaner?
DevCleaner was hunted by David Tereba. 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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