We got tired of "Disk Almost Full"
So we built a tool to fix it. Not just for us — for every developer who's ever wondered where their 500 GB SSD went.
The Origin Story
It started with a 1 TB MacBook Pro that was somehow full. The culprit wasn't photos or movies — it was developer tools. Claude Code had 13 GB of caches. Gradle was hoarding 24 GB of dependency files. Android Studio AVDs were sitting at 20 GB. npm had 3 GB of cached packages nobody asked for.
We looked for a tool that could find and clean all of this. There wasn't one. Every solution was either Mac-only GUI bloatware, or a bash script that knew about 3 tools.
So we built aiclean: a single CLI that knows where 51 tools hide their caches across macOS and Linux, rates every cleanup by risk, and lets you reclaim your disk in one command.
We saved 64 GB on the first scan. The MacBook has never been the same. In a good way.
Safety First
We built risk levels, process detection, lockfiles, and tiered confirmations because your data matters more than disk space.
CLI Native
We believe developer tools should live in the terminal. No Electron app, no login wall, no telemetry you didn't opt into.
Open Source Core
The CLI is MIT licensed. Free forever. We monetize convenience (auto-clean, dashboards), not the core tool.
Developer-First
Every feature is designed for people who type for a living. JSON output, scriptable flags, config files. It's your tool.
By the Numbers
Want to help?
aiclean is open source. Contributions, bug reports, and new tool adapters are always welcome.