PureMac

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PureMac

Reclaim your Mac. Free, open-source Mac care: cleanup, app management, storage exploration, and system checks. No subscription or telemetry.

Install - Why this exists - How it compares - Our promise - What it does - Permissions - Contributing

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Command line

Open puremac for a keyboard-driven workspace. Select individual cache paths, review project artifacts, or browse your storage by size. Cleanup shows the exact selection and asks for confirmation before permanently removing it.

Use puremac clean dev --dry-run for a preview or --json for scripts. See [cli/README.md](cli/README.md) for controls, commands, and cleanup boundaries.

How it compares

¹ Pearcleaner is Apache 2.0 + Commons Clause - source-available but not OSI-approved (you may not sell it). PureMac is true MIT. Comparison reflects publicly documented features as of 2026; corrections welcome via PR.

Our promise

A Mac cleaner asks for the deepest permission macOS grants - Full Disk Access - and then deletes your files. That demands a level of trust the category has spent twenty years burning. Here's the contract PureMac holds itself to, and you can verify every line of it in the source:

• Deletion behavior is explicit. App uninstalls, orphan removal, and exact-duplicate removal use the Trash at user level. Dashboard/category cleanup, scheduled auto-clean, Trash emptying, Docker/Xcode runtime cleanup, administrator-authorized removal, local snapshot deletion, and CLI cleanup can permanently delete data. Review selections carefully and use CLI dry runs.
• No telemetry, ever. No analytics, no crash reporting, no "anonymous usage stats," no network calls to us. The app doesn't know you exist.
• No fake urgency. No dramatized "47 GB of junk detected!" badge, no red alarm counters, no "your Mac is at risk." We show you neutral facts and let you decide.
• No overpromising. We don't claim to "reclaim purgeable space," "boost RAM," or "speed up your Mac" - things no app can reliably do. See the purgeable-space note below.
• Reviewable selection. Manual cleanup, app-file removal, orphan removal, duplicate removal, and local snapshot deletion require confirmation. Cleanup filters show when selected items are hidden; select-visible controls affect only the rows on screen. Scheduled auto-clean remains unattended once enabled.