Your Mac was full of Xcode caches while Cursor was still running and holding half of them hostage. DevCleaner 1.10.1 doesn t fight the open app. It cleans around it.
We ve been living in the menu bar for months. This release makes that feel like the product - not a shortcut to a bigger window.
Project Hibernation lets you archive projects you are not actively working on, off your disk into a single file, and restore them in one click whenever you need them. It handles dependency reinstall on restore, is iCloud aware, and verifies every archive before touching the original.
DevCleaner is a macOS menu bar app that finds and clears the gigabytes your dev tools quietly hoard - build caches, logs, temp files, old SDKs. Version 1.8.0 is our biggest scanner expansion yet, built around how developers actually work in 2026.
AI coding tools, covered. New scanners for Claude Code (telemetry, backups, memory logs), Cursor CLI (browser logs, AI tracking, project metadata, saved plans), Codex CLI, and Cline - the tools flooding your home folder with data you never asked to keep.
Decided to actually look at my own storage numbers instead of just building the feature that clears them out.
Xcode alone: 25.51 GB of derived data + simulator junk. Android Studio: 2.58 GB. Cursor: 208 MB.
Over the last 30 days DevCleaner has cleared 55.59 GB across 83 cleanups on my Mac (95.35 GB all-time).
It's honestly wild how much silent bloat piles up from dev tooling build caches, simulators, AI tool caches none of it visible unless you go digging for it.
I've been iterating on DevCleaner - a Mac menu bar app that scans dev junk (Xcode DerivedData, simulators, node_modules graveyards, Docker/OrbStack/Colima bloat, Homebrew caches, AI tool caches, etc.) and lets you clean safely with risk labels.
The last couple releases ( 1.6.1 + 1.6.2 ) are mostly about project hibernation - archiving dead side projects off your SSD instead of keeping 30 GB on disk because "setting it back up later is annoying."
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.
A huge thank you to everyone in the Product Hunt community who supported the launch of DevCleaner yesterday! Finishing at #12 Product of the Day in such a massive, worldwide competition is an incredible milestone for a solo indie builder.
Your upvotes, amazing feedback, and insightful comments mean the world to me. It shows that cluttering our Macs with heavy IDE caches is a pain point we all share, and I m thrilled that DevCleaner is helping you reclaim that precious disk space.
The launch day might be over, but I m just getting started. I'm carefully reading through all your feature requests and suggestions.
