Turbo Mac Cleaner finds the dev caches, node_modules, build artifacts, and stale git projects quietly eating your disk — then safely moves them to the Trash. Nothing is deleted permanently.
Built for developers. It knows the difference between a regenerable cache and your real work.
Rebuildable caches, logs, crash reports, and saved app state under your Library folder.
DerivedData, device support files, simulator caches, and old archives that regenerate on next build.
Detects regenerable artifacts by their project markers — not just by name — so it won't touch your source.
npm, yarn, pnpm, Cargo, Gradle, Maven, CocoaPods, and Ruby gem caches, all in one place.
Surfaces whole repositories under your home folder with their full working-tree size, so you can archive what's done.
Not sure what a folder is? One tap and an AI explains what created it and whether it's safe to delete.
A cleaner has to look at your files. Here's exactly how little of that leaves your Mac.
Turbo Mac Cleaner runs inside Apple's App Sandbox and can only scan the folder you explicitly grant — your Home folder. It measures folder sizes; it never reads, copies, or uploads the contents of your files. The optional AI Explain feature sends only an item's name and path (e.g. ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew) to your configured AI provider — never file contents. Deletions go to the Trash, so anything removed can be restored.
No. Selected items are moved to the Trash, where macOS keeps them until you empty it. You can always restore something you didn't mean to remove.
As a sandboxed Mac App Store app, it can't read any folder you don't explicitly allow. All of its scan targets live inside your Home folder, so granting it once covers everything — and it still can't reach system folders or other users.
It only flags regenerable things: caches, build output, and dependency folders that your tools recreate (e.g. npm install rebuilds node_modules). It identifies these by their project markers, not just folder names.
Those belong to developer tools that should clean their own caches. Turbo Mac Cleaner shows you the exact command (e.g. brew cleanup) and a copy button, but for safety it never runs it for you — you run it in Terminal.
No. The app is fully functional without it. AI Explain is an optional convenience; configure an OpenAI-compatible API key only if you want it.