You're a developer. Your Mac says you have 15GB free. You download CleanMyMac, run a scan, and it proudly offers to clean 4.7GB of system caches and browser data. You clean it. The number barely moves. Meanwhile, you have 40GB of stale node_modules folders, 25GB of Xcode DerivedData, 18GB of Docker images you forgot about, and 8GB of Rust target/ directories scattered across old projects. That's not CleanMyMac's fault. It was never designed to find those things. It's a general-purpose Mac cleaner built for everyone — your parents, your coworkers in marketing, your friend who just wants their MacBook to stop saying "Your disk is almost full." But as a developer, your storage problem is fundamentally different. Most of your disk bloat comes from tools that generic cleaners don't even know exist. This article is a fair, honest comparison of CleanMyMac, MegaCleaner , DevCleaner for Xcode, and DaisyDisk. Each has real strengths. The right choice depends on who you are and what's eating your disk.…