Privacy Policy

CleanDev is a Mac app that finds and removes what developer tools leave behind. This policy covers CleanDev, CleanDev Lite and this website. It is short because the app collects nothing about you or your files.

Nothing leaves your Mac

CleanDev has no account, no server, no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting. Scanning, cleaning and the cleanup log all stay on your Mac. We never receive your files, their names, their sizes or anything about how you use the app. CleanDev Lite never goes online. The direct-download version goes online for one thing only: checking its license, described below.

What the app reads, and why

• Folders developer tools use, such as Xcode’s DerivedData and Archives, simulator folders, package caches, and the build and dependency folders of your projects. CleanDev reads their names, sizes, dates and small metadata files (for example an archive’s app name and version) to show you what can be cleaned.
• The list of running apps, so that anything an open app is using is kept instead of removed.
• Your simulator list, through Apple’s own simctl tool, to know which simulators are open and which can be reset.
• Memory statistics from macOS (used, compressed, swap, pressure), to show the memory panel.
• Direct-download version only: the names, command lines and memory use of running processes, to recognize forgotten developer tools and to show which apps use the most memory; and, when you choose an app to uninstall, the names of its files in your Library.

None of this is stored anywhere except in memory while the app runs, and none of it is sent anywhere.

What the app keeps on your Mac

• A cleanup log for each cleanup: what was removed, how, how much space it freed, and what was kept and why. It is saved in the app’s Application Support folder so you can check it or send it to us yourself if you ask for help. You can delete it at any time.
• CleanDev Lite only: the permission for the project folders you choose, saved as a bookmark so you do not have to choose them again. Removing a folder in the app removes its bookmark.

License (direct-download version only)

The direct-download version is not on sale yet. It will be sold as a yearly subscription through Lemon Squeezy, which will act as the seller and handle payment, tax and invoices under its own privacy policy. We never see your card details.

To check the subscription, the app sends Lemon Squeezy’s license service your license key and, when you activate it, your Mac’s name, so that you can see in your orders which Mac uses the key. This happens when you activate, once a day at most after that, and when you remove the license from a Mac. Nothing about your files or how you use the app is sent. The key is kept in your Mac’s Keychain.

Full Disk Access

The direct-download version can scan projects in Desktop, Documents and Downloads. macOS protects these folders; you can grant Full Disk Access or let macOS ask for each folder. The access is only used to find developer leftovers, on your Mac.

This website

This website does not use analytics, advertising or tracking cookies.

Children

CleanDev is a tool for software developers and is not directed at children.

Changes

If what the app does with data ever changes, this page changes first and the date at the top is updated.

Contact

Akaya Labs, support@cleandev.app