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OpenClean
Free, open-source Mac cleaner you can read and undo
Cleans caches, logs, dev and AI-model leftovers on macOS. Every rule is readable YAML; anything not regenerable goes to a quarantine you can restore. Uninstaller with leftovers, Space Lens, menu bar monitor, CLI. No telemetry. Signed and notarized.
Hi Product Hunt! I'm Animesh, and I built OpenClean.
Paid Mac cleaners are closed, mostly subscription-based, and you can't see what they actually delete. I wanted one I could read and trust.
What's different:
- Every cleaning rule is a readable YAML file, and the app shows why each item is safe to remove
- Anything that isn't trivially regenerable goes to a quarantine first, with History and Restore for 1-90 days
- The Uninstaller moves an app and its leftovers together, so an uninstall can be undone too
- No accounts, no analytics; the only network call is a daily update check you can turn off
- A CLI with JSON output, plus cleanup for Xcode, npm, Cargo, Gradle, Ollama and Hugging Face caches
It's free, GPL-3.0, native Swift, and signed and notarized.
I'd love your feedback: what did it find on your Mac, what felt unclear, and which rules should I add? Issues and rule-pack PRs are very welcome.
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About OpenClean on Product Hunt
“Free, open-source Mac cleaner you can read and undo”
OpenClean was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #159 on the daily leaderboard. Cleans caches, logs, dev and AI-model leftovers on macOS. Every rule is readable YAML; anything not regenerable goes to a quarantine you can restore. Uninstaller with leftovers, Space Lens, menu bar monitor, CLI. No telemetry. Signed and notarized.
OpenClean was featured in Mac (103.8k followers), Productivity (663.5k followers), Open Source (69k followers) and GitHub (41.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 230.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted OpenClean?
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