A Mac cleaner that shows its work.
Closed source, one-time purchase — but not opaque. Every path it can touch is published and versioned. Before anything is deleted you see the exact files, the measured sizes, and the rule that flagged each one.
Free tier, forever · Pro from $39 once · no subscription, no account
How it works
Every path the app is capable of touching lives in a versioned manifest you can read before you install anything. Not a promise about our intentions — a diffable file, in a separate repository, with a history.
Sizes are measured on disk, never estimated and never rounded up. The review screen is a flat, sortable list: the exact files, the exact bytes, and the rule that flagged each one. Nothing is pre-selected.
Deleting moves items to a holding area first. For 30 days any batch can be put back exactly where it came from. A cleaner that cannot undo itself is asking for a trust it has not earned.
The trust stack
Six commitments, each one a thing you can check rather than a thing we say. Where a commitment is not shipped yet, the page it links to says so.
Every path lives in a public, versioned manifest — not a claim, a file you can diff between releases.
A flat list of exactly what goes and why, sourced from that same public list. Nothing pre-ticked.
Zero network calls during a scan or a delete. Opt in and you can watch the exact payload before it is sent.
Deleted items move to quarantine, not to nowhere. Restore any batch, to its original path, inside the window.
Caches, trash, logs and downloads, with the same rules and the same undo. Paying adds reach, not permission.
Not the Mac App Store: Full Disk Access is incompatible with App Store sandboxing, so a sandboxed version could not do the job.
Why another Mac cleaner
PureMac and Pearcleaner are honest and capable, and they are free. They are also solo-maintainer projects you evaluate on faith or read the source of yourself. If that is your bar, they are a good answer.
A full module set behind a subscription that keeps charging long after the cleanup is done, and a background agent that runs while you are not using it. The capability is real; the meter is the problem.
The same category of capability, notarized, bought once — for people who want to see exactly what a tool holding Full Disk Access is about to do, before it does it.
What it deliberately does not do: no malware scanning, no fleet management, no always-on background agent, and no “speed up your Mac” claim we cannot measure. Those are refusals, written down inthe research docs, not gaps waiting to be filled.
Pricing
Free is a working cleaner, not a demo: four modules, the published rules, the review screen, real deletion and a 7-day undo. What Pro sells is reach and repetition — the other11 modules, Space Lens and a 30-day undo. Deleting is not sold, because a cleaner you cannot watch delete something is a cleaner you cannot evaluate.
- Caches, trash, logs and downloads
- Published rules and the full review screen
- Real deletion with a 7-day undo
- No account, no telemetry, no nag screen
- Every module — 15, including Xcode, Docker, duplicates and apps
- Space Lens: the treemap over your whole disk
- 30-day undo, and exclusion rules we do not count
- Three Macs on one licence
- All v1.x updates, free, forever
- Everything in Pro, on ten machines
- 90-day undo
- Priority support, answered within one business day
- Volume keys delivered as a CSV batch
One-time. No subscription, no auto-renewal, no card on file after the sale. Every tier starts with the same 14-day trial with nothing switched off — the full pricing detail covers upgrades, refunds and volume.
Questions
Which Macs does it run on?
macOS only, Apple silicon and Intel. It is distributed directly as a notarized build rather than through the Mac App Store, because Full Disk Access and App Store sandboxing are mutually exclusive — a sandboxed cleaner cannot see the files it would clean.
How many machines does one licence cover?
Free needs no licence and has no limit on time. Pro covers 3 Macs for one person's own use — a personal and a work machine, say — and Studio covers 10. Licences are per person, not per household, and an activation can be moved between machines you own. Device limits are advisory: verification is offline, so nothing phones home to enforce them.
What is the refund policy?
30 days, self-serve through the licence portal, no questions and no retention flow. The 14-day trial has every module live, including delete and undo, so a refund should be rare — you can evaluate the thing that matters before paying for it.
What data leaves my Mac?
During a scan or a delete, nothing: there are no network calls on those paths. Telemetry is off unless you switch it on, and when it is on the app shows you the exact payload before it is sent. There is no account and no analytics identifier.
Why should I trust a closed-source cleaner?
You should not, on the strength of a promise. So the part that matters is not closed: the list of everything the app may delete is public and versioned, the review screen shows the rule behind each candidate, and the undo means a mistake costs you a restore rather than a file.
What happens to my licence if the project stops?
Licensing is not built yet, so this is a commitment rather than a description: it will use offline tokens, with no activation server that can be switched off underneath a build you already paid for. Independently of that, the deletion-rules repository is public today and stays public — the manifest the app runs against remains readable and forkable whatever happens here.
Can I buy it today?
No. It is in active development, there is no downloadable build, and nothing on this site takes payment. The pricing below is the plan, published early so it is not a surprise later.