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jithin-sabu/purge-app

Free up your Mac. Safely. A free, open-source native Mac app that clears the cache and junk your Mac piles up on its own. Files go to the Trash by default, so you can put them back.

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How fast jithin-sabu/purge-app is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

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Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Aug 20 – Oct 19, 2026

Stars +774 in 61 days

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Forks +33 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 98 in 61 days

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Trendshift Trendingwhere the repository ranked each day it made the top 25

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    • GitHub trending history

    Where the repository ranked on GitHub Trending, one dot for each day it was on a list

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    Sep 21 – Oct 13, 2026Best #2

    #1#5#10#15#20#25
    Top 10
    Sep 21, 2026Oct 13, 2026
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    Where people are talking about jithin-sabu/purge-app, and every badge it has earned
    1. Oct 121 post

      • Purge: Free up your Mac. Safely. (1.1k stars)

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        r/BestGitHubRepos

    2. 23 days earlier
    3. Sep 191 post

      • Purge v1.5.2 发布，面向开发者的磁盘清理工具 $ brew install --cask jithin-sabu/tap/purge

        Read full on X, posted by @jaywcjlove

        @jaywcjlove · x.com

    4. 1 month earlier
    5. Aug 131 post

      • Purge can live in your menu bar now. No dock icon, just this

        Read full on X, posted by @sabu_jithin

        @sabu_jithin · x.com

    6. 1 month earlier
    7. Jul 41 post

      • [OS] Purge: A small, free, open-source Mac cache cleaner I built for myself

        Read full on Reddit

        r/macapps

    8. 8 days earlier
    9. Jun 261 post

      • Purge 面向开发者的磁盘清理工具，一键扫描系统缓存、编译产物和开发工具垃圾，标注安全等级防误删。

        Read full on X, posted by @jaywcjlove

        @jaywcjlove · x.com

    10. Jun 251 post

      • Purge: A small, free, open-source mac cache cleaner i built for myself

        Read full on Reddit

        r/MacOSApps

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