OverClean 1.4: Xcode & Simulator Cleanup, a New Merchant of Record, and Some Overdue Legal Paperwork

Version 1.4 is out. The headline is a new tab most of you asked for without quite knowing it existed: a dedicated view for everything Xcode leaves scattered across your disk. The less exciting but arguably more important part of this release is on the business side: OverClean now runs on a different payment processor, and the site finally has some legal pages it should have had from day one.

Xcode was already being cleaned up. Now you can actually see it.

Since the free-preview days, OverClean’s Development Tools scan has flagged node_modules, Python virtualenvs, and a rough Xcode bucket alongside Git repos and Docker data. That was fine for a quick “what’s eating my disk” pass, but if you do iOS development for a living, “Xcode: 18 GB” isn’t an answer, it’s a question.

Xcode & Simulator Artifacts is the answer. It’s its own tab now, sitting next to Applications and Leftovers, and it splits the mess into five groups.

Simulators lists every iPhone, iPad, Watch, and TV simulator you have installed, with its iOS version, size, and last-used date. Anything whose runtime has since been deleted from Xcode gets flagged, because that’s usually a device you forgot to remove months ago. Test Simulator Clones are the ones Xcode silently creates every time it runs UI tests. These are APFS copy-on-write clones, which is the part that used to confuse me before I understood it: deleting one clone barely frees anything, because it’s still sharing blocks with its siblings. OverClean groups them separately and says so up front, instead of showing a size that quietly lies to you.

The other three groups are simpler. Derived Data is build intermediates and the index, always safe to remove since Xcode rebuilds it on the next build whether you like it or not. Archives are the .xcarchive bundles from Product → Archive, which have a way of outliving the App Store submission they were made for. Tool Caches covers everything the command-line tools and Swift Package Manager leave behind.

There’s also a Select Outdated button that grabs every simulator with a missing runtime in one click, so you’re not opening each device to check its status by hand. On a Mac that’s had a few years of Xcode betas cycle through it, it’s not unusual for this tab alone to add up to 15-20+ GB.

This is a licensed feature, same tier as Applications and Leftovers. See pricing if you’re still on the free scan.

Checkout has a new merchant of record: Creem

If you bought a license before this release, none of this changes anything about your existing key or activation. It’s about how new purchases are processed. OverClean’s checkout and license server now run through Creem.io (Armitage Labs OÜ, Estonia) instead of the previous processor. Creem is the merchant of record: they handle the actual transaction, VAT/sales tax, and receipts, the same role the old processor played.

The buying flow itself hasn’t changed. You still land on a plain price-summary page, click through to a hosted checkout, pay, and get your license key by email. If a checkout bug ever crosses your screen, it’s almost certainly a Creem-side hiccup rather than anything on OverClean’s own pages, since the static site never touches payment details directly.

Two legal pages that should have existed already

Honestly, this part is just me catching up on paperwork I put off for too long.

Under EU consumer law, you normally get a 14-day right to change your mind and get a refund, no questions asked. That right doesn’t really apply cleanly to a license key that’s emailed to you the second you pay: once it’s delivered, “withdrawing” doesn’t undo anything. So checkout now has an explicit checkbox: you confirm you want the key delivered immediately and understand you’re giving up that specific statutory withdrawal right in exchange for instant delivery. To be clear, this doesn’t leave you unprotected. OverClean’s own 14-day money-back guarantee still applies regardless of what the checkbox says. It’s just the legally correct way to ask for consent before an instant digital delivery, recorded the way EU consumer-rights law expects (timestamp, IP, user agent) rather than assumed.

Spain also requires an Aviso Legal, a legal notice, for anyone selling online as a registered trader: trade name, tax ID, registered address, contact. OverClean is a one-person operation registered as an autónomo in Spain, and that page was simply missing until now. It’s linked from the footer, Terms, Privacy, and Contact page, and you can read it directly at /legal-notice/.

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy also got resynced with the same identity and consumer-protection details, and the minimum macOS requirement (which had quietly drifted to 14.6 in the app itself while some pages still said 14.0) is now consistent everywhere.

None of this changes what OverClean does or what you’re buying. It just makes the paperwork match reality, which is overdue but not exciting enough to lead with.

Try it

Download OverClean free to scan your Mac and see the new Xcode tab for yourself, or go straight to pricing if you already know you want the full toolkit.