Storage
HTTP Cache
Clears the browser's main network cache. The most common culprit.
Cache cleared.
Sanity restored.
The Chrome extension that clears the site you're on: cache, cookies, localStorage, IndexedDB, CacheStorage. One click, or Ctrl+Shift+X.
The extension runs locally · No ads · No analytics · No account required
Stop fighting your cache.
You ship a change. Reload. Still the old version. Hard reload. Same thing. You dig through Chrome menus, clear cache manually, reload again. Five minutes gone. Now multiply that by every debugging session, every localhost test, every "why isn't this updating?" across staging and production.
One action, the toolbar icon or Ctrl+Shift+X, clears everything you selected. Back to shipping.
One action. Clean state.
You
Click or press Ctrl+Shift+X
Trigger a clear from the toolbar icon or the keyboard shortcut, without leaving your current tab.
CacheSweeper
Your profile does the work
Each profile remembers exactly what to clear. Default and Localhost come ready, and you choose what each one clears. Premium can switch profiles by domain automatically.
Chrome
Fresh page, clean state
The tab reloads with a clean slate, without cached assets or stale state.
Everything you actually need.
Install and go. No account. Every permission it asks for, it uses.
Storage
Cookies
Session and persistent cookies cleared in one shot.
Storage
localStorage
Persistent in-origin key/value storage, gone.
Storage
IndexedDB
Structured client-side databases cleared completely.
Storage
CacheStorage
Service Worker fetch cache, the one that's hardest to debug.
Workflow
Keyboard Shortcut
Ctrl+Shift+X clears without leaving the page. Configurable in Chrome settings.
Profiles
Profile Presets
Default and Localhost profiles included. Switch by right-clicking the toolbar icon.
Workflow
Auto-reload
Tab reloads automatically after clearing. Toggle off when you just want to clear.
Safety
Per-Origin Scope
On by default: clear only the site you're on. Other sites keep their cache and storage; cookies go for the site's whole domain (Chrome's rule), and history, downloads and autofill always cover every site. Switch it off in options for a browser-wide clear.
Insight
Clear Summary
Every clear you start ends with a sleek on-page summary, on by default: cookies removed and storage freed, measured for real.
Chrome
Chrome's own list
Browsing history, download history and autofill data, the same items Chrome's Clear browsing data offers. Off by default, one toggle each. Passwords are never touched.
Pick the tier that fits.
| Feature | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | ||
| HTTP Cache | Included | Included |
| Cookies | Included | Included |
| localStorage | Included | Included |
| IndexedDB | Included | Included |
| CacheStorage | Included | Included |
| FileSystems (OPFS) | Included | Included |
| sessionStorage | Not included | Included |
| Service Workers | Not included | Included |
| Browser data | ||
| Browsing history (opt-in) | Included | Included |
| Download history (opt-in) | Included | Included |
| Autofill form data (opt-in) | Included | Included |
| Workflow | ||
| Keyboard shortcut | Included | Included |
| Auto-reload toggle | Included | Included |
| Confirm before clearing | Included | Included |
| Bypass-cache reload | Not included | Included |
| Time range selector | Not included | Included |
| Safety | ||
| Per-origin scope | Included | Included |
| Protected domains (whitelist) | Not included | Included |
| Profiles | ||
| Profiles | 2 (Default + Localhost) | Unlimited |
| Domain auto-switching | Not included | Included |
| Export & import profiles (file) | Not included | Included |
| Automation | ||
| Scheduled & automated clearing | Not included | Included |
| Clear on tab close | Not included | Included |
| Insight | ||
| Clear summary & notifications | Included | Included |
| Metrics dashboard | Not included | Included |
Pay monthly. Or once.
A fair tool at a fair price: the free tier stays useful, and nothing pops up to upsell you.
Free stays free: six storage types (five on by default), two profiles, the shortcut, per-origin scope and the clear summary. $0, no account.
Monthly
$3/ month
Full premium access. Cancel any time.
Get Monthly (opens in a new tab)- sessionStorage clearing
- Service Worker unregistration
- Scheduled & automated clearing
- Protected domains whitelist
- Unlimited profiles + import/export
- Time range selector
- Metrics dashboard
- Bypass-cache reload
By month ten you've paid for Lifetime. By twelve, you've overpaid.
Best value
Lifetime
$29one-time
Pay once and keep Premium for good. Nothing recurring.
Get Lifetime (opens in a new tab)- No recurring charge
- Future features included
- All ten Premium tools, yours to keep:
- sessionStorage
- Scheduled clearing
- Tab-close clearing
- Protected domains
- Unlimited profiles
- Import & export
- Service Workers
- Time range
- Metrics dashboard
- Bypass-cache reload
- Year 1
- $36 on Monthly, you keep$7
- Year 2
- $72 on Monthly, you keep$43
- Year 3
- $108 on Monthly, you keep$79
Pays for itself after ten months of Monthly.
- 30-day refund guarantee
- Payments processed by Lemon Squeezy
- VAT handled automatically
Frequently asked.
Straight answers. If yours isn't here, support is one email away.
CacheSweeper works on any http:// or https:// page. It cannot run on Chrome's own pages (chrome://, about:, etc.) due to browser security restrictions, the same as every other extension.
Not unless you switch them on. Browsing history, download history and autofill data are separate toggles under Chrome's own list in the options, off by default. Passwords are never touched: Chrome no longer lets extensions clear them. Out of the box it clears developer storage (cache, cookies, localStorage, IndexedDB, CacheStorage) for the site you are on.
Ctrl+Shift+X on Windows/Linux, Cmd+Shift+X on Mac. You can change it in Chrome at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
CacheSweeper comes with two profiles pre-configured: Default (applies to all sites) and Localhost (applies to localhost and 127.0.0.1). You can switch between them by right-clicking the CacheSweeper toolbar icon, or on the options page.
Because it clears whatever site you're on, it can't know the sites in advance. The <all_urls> permission lets it show the clear summary and the optional confirmation in that site's tab, measure how much storage a clear freed, count the site's cookies, and clear or keep sessionStorage in the site's open tabs. Chrome's own clearing wipes sessionStorage as a side effect, so when you haven't chosen to clear it, CacheSweeper briefly copies it and puts it straight back. It never reads page content, and nothing is sent anywhere.
sessionStorage is scoped to the current tab and normally lasts for the page session, but it can survive reloads and hard refreshes, preserving stale auth tokens or UI state. Chrome's standard browsing-data controls don't expose it, so CacheSweeper Premium can clear it directly, with one toggle: in every open tab of the site, or of every unprotected site with per-origin scope off.
That's Chrome, not CacheSweeper. When you're signed in to Chrome itself, Google automatically refreshes the cookies that keep your Google Account signed in. Even Chrome's own Clear Browsing Data works this way. Other sites sign out as usual when their cookies are cleared, unless you've protected them. To sign out of Google too, sign out of Chrome first, or turn off "Allow Chrome sign-in" in Chrome's settings.
The free tier is genuinely full-featured. Install it, use it daily, and upgrade only if you need sessionStorage, scheduled clearing, or unlimited profiles. There is no trial to expire and nothing nags you to upgrade.
Ready to stop fighting your cache?
Free to install, with no account and no card.
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