Get your Mac's storage back.

Xcode silently eats up gigabytes of your hard drive with hidden build directories, logs, and old simulator data. DevShed lets you clean them up safely and instantly with a simple, lightweight native app.

Free Utility • Simple Cleanup • Universal Apple & Intel Support
Preview before cleanup Reclaim in seconds
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Space Calculator

Check Your Cleanable Space

Build folders balloon silently. Slide the indicators below to get an estimate of how much space DevShed will save your Mac's drive over a year of development.

Clean Drive Tip: Keeping at least 15% of your total drive free avoids write limitations and preserves your Mac's SSD lifespan.

How often do you write code? Moderate (Weekly)
Casual Weekly Daily heavy coding
Mac Hard Drive Size 512 GB
256 GB 512 GB 1 TB 2 TB+
Est. Cleaned / Year 120 GB of temporary clutter
Drive Space Relieved 23% of total drive space
Lifespan Rating Highly Optimized preserved SSD health
Features

Designed to Be Simple and Safe

DevShed safely handles complex storage sweeps in one click, without risking your critical source directories.

Find Hidden Cache

Xcode stores huge builds even after you delete or move the project file. DevShed automatically flags these abandoned folders so you can delete them cleanly.

Choose What to Clean

Prevent compile slowdowns. Use the interactive planner to inspect files, view sizes, and select only what you want to wipe.

Safe Cleaning

DevShed asks you to save open projects and closes Xcode automatically before starting a cleaning cycle, keeping your work secure.

Project Folder Scanner

Monitor external work folders to track down massive and obsolete dependencies that clutter your storage.

Simulator Cleanup

Safely clear heavy simulator system files and caches generated during testing to free up local disk space.

Smart Alerts

Set a storage warning threshold. Let DevShed alert you when hidden Xcode caches get too large, so your drive stays clean.

Purge Targets

Clean Everything Safely

Xcode hoards storage across multiple folders. DevShed organizes these areas cleanly, allowing you to choose exactly what to clear.

Package Cache Protection: Excludes core registries by default to save network bandwidth and avoid slow re-downloads on your next project load.

Derived Data & Archives

Removes build directories, intermediate compilation folders, logs, and expired local release archives.

Simulator Logs & Caches

Safely discards heavy testing diagnostic reports, console log files, and obsolete simulator device support data.

Multi-Platform Package Cache

Direct support to clean nested package folders like Flutter Pub, CocoaPods local files, Swift Package Manager, and Carthage.

From Product Hunt

Loved by Xcode developers

Real feedback from developers who got their disk space back—without worrying about the files they need.

Follow DevShed on Product Hunt
“Finally an Xcode cleanup tool that lives in the menu bar and actually works. Freed up 34GB on my MacBook without touching anything I needed—the whitelist option is a nice touch.”
Ersin · Product Hunt
“Finally something that actually shows you what’s eating space before nuking it. The menu bar view is clean and reclaiming 30GB felt almost too easy.”
Ceren Bozbey · Product Hunt
“Finally something that lives in the menu bar and just does the job. Cleared out over 30GB of old Derived Data and simulator stuff I had forgotten about—no prompts or nags.”
Halit Bozan · Product Hunt
“Love how it lives right in the menu bar without hijacking the dock, and showing the exact space you can reclaim before you clean is exactly the kind of trust-building detail that makes you feel safe hitting delete.”
Muzaffer Kuşçu · Product Hunt
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Absolutely safe. DevShed never touches or deletes your actual source code or assets. It only clears out compiler cache, logs, and simulator directories that macOS automatically recreates when you build or test your app again.
When you delete an old project folder, Xcode often keeps gigabytes of index files behind inside your Library path. DevShed detects these abandoned directories that no longer correspond to a project on your drive, classifying them as Ghost Caches so you can clean them up.
Zero. We do not run background telemetry, metrics, or usage analysis. All file scans and deletions happen entirely inside your local macOS system environment.
macOS App

Reclaim your gigabytes.

Keep your Mac clean and fast. Download DevShed to gain control over bloated system caches.

Requires macOS 14+