A disk cleaner for Windows developers. Below is the real app on a made-up drive. Press Scan.
Find folders by name and send them to the Recycle Bin.
Find tool caches and build folders you can safely delete.
See where all the space on a drive went.
Search file contents with ripgrep.
Open on a wider screen to try the demo.
Find folders by name and send them to the Recycle Bin.
Every node_modules under D:\code.
Find tool caches and build folders you can safely delete.
Each Cargo target folder, with how long its project has gone untouched.
See where all the space on a drive went.
A space map of C:\ you can click down into.
Search file contents with ripgrep.
Every file under D:\code that contains TODO.
Angular cache, Astro build cache, Bun cache, Cypress binaries, Deno cache, Docusaurus cache, Electron downloads, Expo cache, Metro bundler cache, Next.js build, npm cache, npx cache, Nuxt build, Nx cache, NYC coverage output, Parcel cache, Playwright browsers, Playwright report, pnpm store, Puppeteer browsers, Rollup cache, Storybook output, SvelteKit build, Turborepo cache, Turborepo local cache, Vite deps cache, Vitest cache, Yarn cache
.NET bin and obj, Cabal dist-newstyle, ccache, CMake build tree, CMake intermediate, Composer cache, Dart tool cache, Elixir build dir, Go module cache, Nim cache, NuGet HTTP cache, NuGet packages, NuGet scratch, RubyGems cache, sccache, Stack work dir, Swift build dir, Terraform providers, WebDriver binaries, Zig cache
AMD shader cache, Crash dumps, Debug symbol cache, DirectX shader cache, Intel shader cache, NVIDIA CUDA cache, NVIDIA DirectX shader cache, NVIDIA OpenGL shader cache, NVIDIA OptiX cache, NVIDIA update artifacts, Scoop download cache, Windows component store, WinGet download cache, WSL disks
conda package cache, coverage.py HTML report, mypy / ruff cache, pip cache, Poetry cache, pytest cache, Python bytecode, uv cache
JetBrains IDE caches, JetBrains Toolbox installers, JetBrains transient data, TypeScript type acquisition, Visual Studio installer payloads, VS Code C++ IntelliSense
Discord cache, Firefox cache, GOG Galaxy web cache, Obsidian app cache, Spotify stream cache
Gradle caches, Gradle project cache, Maven repository
Cargo git checkouts, Cargo registry, Cargo target dir
Docker build cache, Docker dangling images
Unity Library, Unreal DDC and intermediate
InsightFace models, PyTorch Hub checkpoints
riptide opens the raw volume and reads the NTFS Master File Table in one sequential pass. It never walks the folder tree.
For these, riptide runs the tool's cleanup instead of deleting folders.
pnpm store pruneRemoves packages no project references.
docker builder prune -a -fThe next build of each image starts with no cache.
docker image prune -fRemoves untagged images that no container uses.
wsl --shutdown, then diskpart compact vdiskEach disk shrinks to what it holds. WSL and Docker stop while it runs.
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanupSlow. Old updates can no longer be uninstalled.
rg) on your PATH, for Search.git clone https://github.com/dustinlacewell/riptidenpm installnpm run devWindows asks for admin rights, then riptide opens in a new console.