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@thoughtf00l thoughtf00l released this 14 Jul 08:26
v1.0.4
b932105

What's new

  • Reclaim window. A category-first list of everything reclaimable, opened with the Reclaim… toolbar button: each category shows its total, a risk badge (Safe / Costs time / Loses data) and a plain-language explanation of what deleting actually costs; items have checkboxes (simulators listed per device, by name) and the selection moves to the Trash in one confirmed step.
  • Beyond developer junk. The catalog now also finds per-app caches, logs, local iOS device backups, Adobe Premiere/After Effects media caches, and Android artifacts (AVDs, SDK system images, Gradle wrapper, Kotlin/Native toolchains).
  • Smarter chart highlight. The display-mode tabs became a single "Highlight reclaimable" switch, and folders whose junk sits deeper than the visible rings now glow proportionally instead of rendering an all-gray chart.
  • App icon by @thoughtf00l.

Fixed

  • Whole-volume scans no longer double-count user data reachable through APFS firmlinks (/Users vs /System/Volumes/Data/Users).
  • The live chart during a scan now shows all top-level sectors instead of a few.
  • Xcode archives moved to their own xcodeArchives category (they hold dSYMs and cannot be regenerated), so clean --category xcodeBuild never selects them; Pods directories are no longer flagged (often committed to git); __pycache__ noise is gone.

CLI

  • dev --json / clean --json items now carry "risk": "safe" | "costs_time" | "loses_state"; AGENTS.md tells agents to clean loses_state items only after explicit human confirmation. Human dev output is grouped by category.

Install

brew tap thoughtf00l/tap
brew trust thoughtf00l/tap   # one-time, Homebrew 6+
brew install --cask discfree

SHA-256: 325220db7a70990a8a589ef715121d281d41b377a6bb394e8cb193cf653778f6

Troubleshooting the upgrade

A July 2026 Homebrew change (installed-cask receipts moved to JSON) can make brew upgrade fail for third-party tap casks with It seems there is already an App at '/Applications/DiscFree.app'. If you hit that, recover with a one-time reinstall, which rewrites the receipt:

brew reinstall --cask --force discfree

Your settings and the Full Disk Access grant survive — the bundle identity and signature are unchanged.

Contributors

thoughtf00l
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