Gargantua
Every deletion explained, every rule yours to edit
Gargantua launched on June 16, 2026 with 4 votes, #3,322 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Every other Mac cleaner is a black box: a "junk found" number and a Clean button. Gargantua shows its work. Every file traces to a named rule that says why it's safe to remove, and you can read that rule, edit it, or drop in your own YAML, no rebuild. Want more than the rule's reason? An on-device or cloud model can explain any item in depth, but never downgrade a safety rating. Files near system paths stay protected, undeletable by anyone. Open source, local-first, free to build from source.
A native macOS cleaner for developers. Every file it removes traces to a named rule with a safe, review, or protected rating. Open source, telemetry-free, agent-drivable over MCP.
Gargantua scans the caches, build artifacts, duplicates, and app remnants piling up on your Mac. Every file it touches traces to a named rule that shows you why it is safe to remove, so you clean without taking anything on faith. The category runs on one move: surface a big “1,000 junk files found” figure, a reassuring checkmark, and a Clean button. You never see which files, where they live, or why removing them is safe, so the number is the only thing you have to go on, and you can't check it. That is a bad deal for anyone who knows what lives under ~/Library . Gargantua takes the opposite position: nothing is removable until you can see the evidence. Every finding is graded safe , review…from gargantua.inceptyon.io
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