Derived vs DevCleaner for Xcode

Derived is our app. Every DevCleaner fact below comes from its Mac App Store listing and GitHub page, checked on October 3, 2026. If something changed, email us and we'll fix it.

At a glance

	DevCleaner for Xcode	Derived
Price	Free, optional tips ($1.99 to $9.99)	Free scan, $9.99 once to clean (3 Macs)
Source	Open source (GPL-3.0)	Closed source
Where to get it	Mac App Store	Direct download, signed and notarized
macOS	14 or later	14 or later
DerivedData by project	Yes, sorted by project	Yes, by real project name, with "project deleted" and "stale" badges
Archives	Yes, with submission and notarization status	Yes, with distribution status; Trash only, never auto-selected
Device Support	Yes	Yes (iOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS)
Documentation cache, old logs	Yes	No
Simulator runtimes and devices	Not mentioned on its listing	Yes, through Apple's simctl
SwiftPM, CocoaPods, Carthage caches	Not mentioned on its listing	Yes
Skips projects open in Xcode, waits for builds	Not mentioned on its listing	Yes
Command-line tool	Yes	No
Reminders / background scan	Scan reminders	Optional weekly scan and menu bar total

Choose DevCleaner if

• You want a free, open-source tool you can read and build yourself.
• You prefer the Mac App Store.
• You want to clean documentation caches and old logs, or script cleaning with a command-line tool.

Choose Derived if

• Simulators are your biggest problem. On our test Mac, runtimes and simulator data were 49 of 60 GB.
• You want it to be hard to break a build: it skips projects open in Xcode and folders in use, and waits while a build runs.
• You want one click for what's obviously safe, and to see what your disk actually got back.