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Pruneo
Free Mac cleaner that adapts to your Mac, with AI and MCP
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Free Mac cleaner that adapts to your Mac, with AI and MCP
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Pruneo frees up space on your Mac: caches, app leftovers, old versions, large files and the dev junk other cleaners skip. New in v1.1.0: it adapts to the apps you use, asks your AI agent about unknown folders and has an MCP server. Free, with undo up to 30 days.
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Hi Product Hunt! We're Leandro and Julieta, the makers of Pruneo š
It started with my Mac (Leandro here) running out of space. Most of it wasn't my files: Xcode caches, Docker images, old Node versions, node_modules in forgotten projects. The cleaners we tried didn't look there, so we built one that does, and made it work for anyone with a Mac.
What we focused on:
ā¢ Fast: a full scan in about 4 seconds in our test, ~6Ć faster than the leading Mac cleaner.
ā¢ Light: 8,6 MB, no background processes, ~0.1% CPU when idle.
ā¢ Safe: every item is labeled safe / review / protected, and everything you clean waits 48 hours so you can restore it.
ā¢ Private: no account, no telemetry.
For developers: a projects view that shows what you haven't touched in months, and a dependency checker that flags known vulnerabilities in your lockfiles.
It's free. You can also install it with Homebrew:
brew install --cask leanvitale/tap/pruneo
We'd love your honest feedback: what it flags that it shouldn't, what it misses, and how much space it freed for you. We'll both be here all day answering questions.
Pruneo 1.1 is out, and it's the biggest update so far:
Adapts to your Mac: it looks at the apps and projects you actually use and builds its sections on its own. No more profiles.
AI agent: for large folders Pruneo doesn't know yet, it can ask Apple Intelligence, Ollama, Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI. It only sends folder names and sizes.
Help out (optional): what agents identify on several Macs gets recognized automatically on every Mac.
MCP server: run `pruneo mcp` and your agent can scan the disk and clean what's safe, always to quarantine.
Music projects: Ableton Live, Logic Pro and FL Studio.
Faster: smart scan from 14 s to 10 s, large files almost 4Ć faster.
Safer cleanup: files a program has open ask first, nothing that changed since the scan is touched, iCloud files that aren't downloaded are never moved.
Quarantine you can set from 24 hours to 30 days.
Still free, no account, no subscription. I'd love your honest feedback on what it flags and what it misses.
Hey PH š Iām Julieta, I build Pruneo with Lean.
We got tired of paying a yearly subscription just to clear caches, so we built the cleaner we wanted: free for real. No account, no Pro version, no ads.
The part I care about most is safety. Pruneo sorts everything into Safe, Review and Never touched (SSH keys, .env files, git projects, Photos...). And everything you clean goes to Quarantine first, so you can bring it back if you change your mind.
8.6 MB, macOS 14+, Apple Silicon and Intel.
We read every comment: what should it clean next? And what would make you trust a cleaner? š