Watchdog for Xcode 4+

Cerebral Gardens

    • 4.5 • 2 Ratings
    • £4.99

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Description

If you're a developer using Xcode®, you need Watchdog.

Watchdog monitors Xcode and automatically cleans up stale cache files that prevent you from getting a good build. It will save you hours of aggravation dealing with a number of problems you might see including:

• Old images that you've replaced, still showing up in your app.
• The DerivedData folder growing continuously over time, often taking up 10+ gigabytes of space.
• Constants/Defines not updating in the app after you've changed them in the code.
• Localization file changes not being seen.
• Phantom breakpoints and/or breakpoints stopping on the wrong line.
• Xcode refusing to run a build on your device, only reporting something obscure like: "Error launching remote program: No such file or directory"

You will often clean build, quit Xcode, restart your Mac and devices and sometimes even blow away your entire repo and re-clone, just to try and fix some strange bug that doesn't make sense and won't go away - wasting precious hours.

Don’t waste any more time. Install Watchdog.






Xcode is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

What’s New

Version 1.9

• Minor updates in preparation for our larger 2.0 update coming soon
• Note: 2.0 will be a free update for anyone that has purchased 1.x

Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5
2 Ratings

2 Ratings

psonice ,

Major timesaver

If you’re lucky, you never get any mysterious build errors that mysteriously get fixed after a clean (or reboot, or deleting the derived data folder). If not, get this.

It just sits there in the background, cleaning up now and then (you can determine when, I have it doing it on xcode quit and after a clean). Purely subjective as I haven’t kept stats (and maybe recent xcode releases fixed a lot), but I’ve had *way* less trouble with odd bits going wrong since installing it.

Shiva1729 ,

Great app but overpriced

Good for pro developers as it automates cleaning DD but I think it's overpriced for what it does.

Le Chilvaguera ,

Useful, over keen

The default settings will make sure your Xcode refactor tool is pretty useless. I set it to once daily and haven’t had a derived data issue since installing it.

App Privacy

The developer, Cerebral Gardens, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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