v1.2.3

Remove obsolete system cache explanations from explanations.json

- Deleted entries related to system library caches, software updates, log files, diagnostic pipeline data, and crash reports to streamline the explanations provided in the application.
- This cleanup enhances clarity and focuses on relevant cache information for users.

Purge v1.2.2

chore: version bump up to v1.2.2

Purge v1.2.1

chore: bumped up the version number

Purge v1.2.0

What's New

• System Sache Scanning: Purge can now reach deeper macos cache folders like /library/caches and leftover system updates (needs full disk access), so it finds more junk and gets you more space back.
• Cleaned By Purge: A new stats card in the about tab shows everything purge has freed for you over time

What's Better

• Way Faster Scans: Scans that used to take minutes now finish in seconds.
• Trash by default: Purge moves files to the trash instead of deleting them for good, so nothing is ever truly gone. Empty your trash to reclaim the space.

Purge v1.1.2

Refactor cache scanning and enhance UI for lifetime stats

- Updated CacheScanner to enforce deletion safety checks, ensuring only paths offered for cleanup are processed.
- Refined DeletionSafetyPolicy to include new methods for evaluating cleanup eligibility, improving safety during file deletions.
- Enhanced PurgeStore to manage lifetime statistics, including a cap on total recovered bytes and displayable stats in the AboutView.
- Improved AboutView layout to present lifetime cleaning statistics more clearly, enhancing user engagement and understanding of the app's performance.

These changes collectively improve the application's safety during cache management and enhance the user experience with clearer lifetime statistics.

Purge v1.1.1

Add DevToolsStalenessOption enum and integrate into DevScanner and Se…

Purge v1.1.0

What's new in Purge v1.1.0:

• All-new onboarding: First launch now walks you through permissions, background preferences, and your first scan in a clean full-screen flow. You'll see exactly what Purge found and clean it right from setup.

• Smarter scanning: The app no longer freezes during scans. Scanning now runs entirely in the background with a dedicated loading screen, rotating tips, and a progress bar. Results appear instantly when the scan completes.

• Duplicate entries fixed: Apps with cache files in multiple locations (like Arc/Dia) now appear as a single combined row with the total size, instead of confusing duplicate entries.

• AI identification removed: Purge no longer uses AI to identify unknown cache folders. In practice, AI identification was slow, inconsistent, and occasionally misclassified folders, creating false confidence in results that weren't always accurate. Everything Purge shows you is now backed by a hand-curated local database of known cache folders, which means faster scans, more reliable safety tags, and no network calls. If a folder isn't in the database, Purge leaves it alone rather than guessing.

Purge v1.0.0

Purge 1.0.0 — First Release 🎉

First public release of Purge, a Mac cache cleaner that actually explains what it is deleting.

What's in this release

App Caches

• Scans your Mac's cache folder and identifies every app with a friendly name
• Four safety tags: Safe to Clean, Check First, Do Not Delete, and Not Sure
• AI identification for unknown cache folders using OpenRouter
• Filter by safety tag and sort by size or date

Dev Tools

• Detects node_modules, Xcode DerivedData, Docker, Python environments, Rust build folders and more
• Groups cleanup targets by project so you know exactly what belongs where

Settings

• Scheduled automatic cleaning for safe files
• AI identification with your own OpenRouter API key

Installation

See the README for installation instructions including how to get past the macOS security warning.

Known limitations

• Not yet on the Mac App Store so macOS will show a security warning on first launch
• Automatic updates not yet available, check this page for new releases

Feedback

Found something miscategorised or broken? Open an issue or email jithinsabumec@gmail.com