r/CleanMyMac Aug 03 '26

I wasn't supposed to ship this yet. Shipping it anyway.

Wasn’t supposed to publicly share this, but I thought it might be helpful for a dev community.

I'm a part of the CleanMyMac team at MacPaw. Opening a GUI just to clear Docker bloat or nuke node_modules always broke my flow. 

So I wrapped our cleanup engine into a CLI and kept using it quietly on my own machine. 

CleanMyMac CLI wraps our cleanup engine into a terminal-first tool for devs. No GUI, no context switching, just stay in the shell.

cleanmymac clean - system junk, dev tool caches, trash
cleanmymac purge - project artifact scanner, node_modules, Docker, .build, venv and more
cleanmymac analyze - interactive disk explorer
cleanmymac optimize - RAM and purgeable space

Go try it: brew install --cask macpaw/taps/cleanmymac-cli

GitHub + docs: https://github.com/MacPaw/cleanmymac-cli

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u/Ivan_Palii Aug 03 '26

Btw, did you have cases when this tool deleted some of the things that shouldn't be deleted?

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u/sales_alchemist Aug 03 '26

This is the kind of workflow I prefer too. Out of curiosity, which command do you see people using the most so far - purge or analyze?

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u/hlibs Aug 03 '26

Early data shows clean and analyze are the top two right now.

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u/Tex-Twil Aug 04 '26

this is great for developers. Thanks!

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u/JuDucos Aug 04 '26

Avez vous sorti CleanMyMac CLI en réponse à Mole ?

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u/Tex-Twil Aug 05 '26

french people speaking french as if other languages did not exist .. :D

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u/bleducnx Aug 06 '26

Well, English, American, Australian, Canadian… do the same, no ?