Less junk.
More disk.
Pare lives in your menu bar, silently monitoring developer caches and junk files. When they pile up, it lets you know — and cleans them in one click.
14.2 GB
Your Mac is hoarding developer junk
Every build, every simulator launch, every package install leaves behind caches. They accumulate silently — 10, 20, 50 GB — until your disk is full and Xcode refuses to build.
47 GB
Average reclaimable space on a developer Mac after 6 months
11
Cache locations scattered across ~/Library that you'd need to check manually
1 click
All it takes to clean everything with Pare
Built for developers who ship
A quiet utility that does one thing well.
Menu bar native
Lives in your menu bar, not the Dock. Always one click away, never in your way.
Auto-scan every 30 min
Background scans run silently. You get a notification only when caches exceed your threshold.
Smart notifications
Get notified when it matters. "DerivedData + 3 caches hit 14.2 GB. Clean Now." — then dismiss or act.
One-click cleanup
Review what gets removed, toggle individual targets, then clean. Confirmation with full control.
No sudo required
Everything lives under ~/Library. Pare never asks for admin privileges or touches system files.
Lightweight
Pure SwiftUI, no Electron. Minimal CPU and memory. Launches at login and stays out of your way.
How it works
Install & forget
Drop Pare in Applications. It launches at login and lives in your menu bar. No setup, no config.
It watches
Every 30 minutes, Pare scans 11 known cache locations under ~/Library. When total junk exceeds your threshold, you get a notification.
You clean
Click the menu bar icon, review what's reclaimable, toggle what you want, and hit Clean. Done.
What Pare cleans
11 developer cache locations. All under ~/Library — no sudo, no risk.
Trim the fat off your Mac
Free, open source, and lightweight. Download Pare and reclaim your disk space.
Requires macOS 13 Ventura or later