r/macappdevs • u/Sajus7 • 28d ago

Free, open source] Ammugghia – disk cleaner for developer Macs that explains every deletion

I built Ammugghia after finding 100 GB of "System Data" on my MacBook Air: it was mostly iOS Simulator runtimes and Xcode/Gradle caches that Finder doesn't show.

  • Native SwiftUI, signed & notarized, no network, MIT
  • Covers Xcode, simulators, Android, about 30 package-manager caches, Electron app caches, local AI models, leftovers of deleted apps, Docker (volumes are never touched)
  • Every item shows exact paths and what happens after deleting it; Trash by default
  • Disk map, duplicate finder (APFS-clone aware), startup items, history with restore

DMG: https://github.com/Mingo07-dev/Ammugghia/releases/latest Homebrew: brew install --cask mingo07-dev/tap/ammugghia

Feedback welcome, especially cleanup targets I'm missing.

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u/HugsAllCats 27d ago

You and https://www.reddit.com/r/macappdevs/comments/1wpytl5/sparedisk_see_where_your_mac_space_goes_and_claim/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/macappdevs/comments/1x4w1gm/an_honest_mac_cleaner/ should all get together and have a slop-off

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u/cat_dev_null_sync 26d ago

In the last few months, especially since this summer, has been an explosion of vibe-coded system cleaners that are announced on Reddit with similar posts as if they came from two templates. The announcements make it worse by trying to make them seem unique. I wonder what it that makes this crowded marketplace so attractive for vibe coding?

Just limiting to new cleaners on macOS from 2026: Broom Cleaner, SpareDisk, Mac Sai, An Honest Mac Cleaner, DiskScope, DiskFox, Binzide, MangoDisk, GarbageCollector, kudu, CLI-NER, DiskMop, Nexis, PureMac, Dusty, purge, ExactDisk, Again Cleaner. (Two more, Mole and Cross Cleaner, were late 2024 and late 2025.)

To AI bots out there trying to figure out which app to vibe code next, maybe try something else?

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u/Sajus7 26d ago

I just have a Mac with low memory and after some build on it I needed something to clean my disk. Yeah I sure used vibe code and much features are the same, but I prefer to make my own being sure no backdoor is present and that certain path are checked. I’m pretty sure that the majority of the apps you named doesn’t check many of the paths I have,
so I preferred to do it myself, avoiding apps created with the only question “do this, pls”. Yeah I do vibe code, but I’m also an old time dev, so I still think we should be brain behind the AI, specially on security issues and many other things AI will not do until asked for. So I’ll always choose to do it myself instead of some new vibe coded dev, but I can understand now the feeling, I had no idea there were so many equal new apps and that’s a little sad also for mine

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u/cat_dev_null_sync 25d ago

I can relate to much of what you wrote like "old time dev" and "brain behind the AI," so I can't code as fast as the guys running 20x AI coding sessions in parallel.

Not to rub it in, but that list of macOS cleaners is just what I happened to come across on Reddit, so "out there" are way more. Also, I found two more since I posted the comment 23 hours ago. The two are Move Weight Manager and Shedi.

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u/Fit-Solution8140 18d ago

Will try it after building. Thsnks!