MacDiskCleanUp

See what's using your space.
Recover what you don't need.

A native macOS storage analyser that measures every folder, draws the whole tree as a treemap, and finds duplicates by comparing file contents rather than names. Nothing is removed unless you select it, and everything it removes can be put back.

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macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple silicon and Intel

The Dashboard: a ring chart of 438 GB used of a 512 GB disk with a category breakdown beside it, 87.4 GB marked potentially recoverable, and the five largest cleanup opportunities listed underneath.
Dashboard. Where the space went, before anything is proposed. The ring is the whole disk by category, and the recoverable figure beside it never counts anything the rules protect.
The Recoverable Space screen: 87.4 GB divided into Safe to Clean, Review Recommended and Do Not Touch, above a list of sources each carrying its own safety label.
Recoverable Space. Every source split three ways — safe to clean, review recommended, do not touch — with nothing risky selected on your behalf.
The Installed Applications screen: every app listed with its own size, the related data it has left elsewhere on the disk, and when it was last used.
Applications. Every app with its own size and the data it has left elsewhere on the disk, which is the part dragging it to the Trash leaves behind.
The App Leftovers screen: files left behind by apps that are no longer installed, grouped by the app that left them, each group showing a size, a file count and a confidence rating.
App Leftovers. Files from apps that are already gone, grouped by whatever left them, each group carrying a confidence rating rather than a guess presented as fact.
The Storage Explorer screen: a treemap of a Library folder where each rectangle is sized by the space it uses, with the same folders listed beside it.
Storage Explorer. A treemap of everything measured. Each rectangle is a folder at the size it actually occupies; click one to descend into it.

Click a screen to open it full size.

What it does

Measurement first, removal second

Most disk cleaners lead with a number they want you to click. This one leads with where the space actually went, and lets you decide what happens next.

A treemap of the whole tree

Every folder drawn at the size it actually occupies. Big things look big. Click to descend, and the way back up stays visible.

Duplicates verified by content

Copies are found by hashing the bytes, not by comparing names. A renamed photo is still caught; two different files that share a name are not called copies.

Nothing goes without a reason

Every candidate for removal carries what it is, what it costs to lose, and how confident the app is. Protected items are shown and never selectable.

Reversible by design

Removals are recorded in a ledger and can be restored from it. Undoing the app's own work is never a paid feature and never will be.

Applications, and what they left behind

Uninstall an app together with its caches, containers and preferences — each one listed, each one reviewable, each one yours to keep or drop.

Figures you can check

Sizes are measured, not estimated, and what the scan could not read is reported rather than quietly folded into "Other".

The app

What you spend your time in

Five of them, from the direct build — the edition that can actually remove something. Click any to open it full size. The figures in them are sample data.

The Dashboard: a ring chart of 438 GB used of a 512 GB disk with a category breakdown beside it, 87.4 GB marked potentially recoverable, and the five largest cleanup opportunities listed underneath.
Dashboard. Where the space went, before anything is proposed. The ring is the whole disk by category, and the recoverable figure beside it never counts anything the rules protect.
The Recoverable Space screen: 87.4 GB divided into Safe to Clean, Review Recommended and Do Not Touch, above a list of sources each carrying its own safety label.
Recoverable Space. Every source split three ways — safe to clean, review recommended, do not touch — with nothing risky selected on your behalf.
The Installed Applications screen: every app listed with its own size, the related data it has left elsewhere on the disk, and when it was last used.
Applications. Every app with its own size and the data it has left elsewhere on the disk, which is the part dragging it to the Trash leaves behind.
The App Leftovers screen: files left behind by apps that are no longer installed, grouped by the app that left them, each group showing a size, a file count and a confidence rating.
App Leftovers. Files from apps that are already gone, grouped by whatever left them, each group carrying a confidence rating rather than a guess presented as fact.
The Storage Explorer screen: a treemap of a Library folder where each rectangle is sized by the space it uses, with the same folders listed beside it.
Storage Explorer. A treemap of everything measured. Each rectangle is a folder at the size it actually occupies; click one to descend into it.

Two editions

One of them cleans. The other cannot, by design.

The Mac App Store requires apps to run in a sandbox, and a sandboxed app cannot remove another app's files. Rather than ship a cleaner that quietly fails at cleaning, there are two builds and each is honest about what it is.

Direct download

MacDiskCleanUp

The full app. Signed and notarised by Apple, installed from a disk image.

  • Scans your whole Mac
  • Treemap, large files, duplicates
  • Cleans caches, logs and Trash
  • Uninstalls apps with their leftover files
  • Restores anything it removed
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Mac App Store

MacDiskCleanUp Insights

The same scanner and the same screens, read-only. It measures the folders you choose and changes nothing.

  • Measures folders you pick
  • Treemap, large files, duplicates
  • Cannot clean anything
  • Cannot uninstall apps
  • Sandboxed and read-only, enforced by macOS
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Pricing

Free does the analysis. Pro does the tedious parts.

The whole measurement is free, permanently — every screen, every figure, and the cleaning of the safe and obvious things. Pro pays for the work that has to be maintained release after release.

Free

$0

  • Full scan, every screen, every figure
  • Treemap, large files, duplicates
  • Clean caches, logs and Trash
  • Per-item review before anything goes
  • Restore from the ledger, always
  • Scheduled scans

Pro

$49 one-time, lifetime

or $19 a year — $1.58 a month, billed annually

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited app uninstalls with their related files
  • Remove app leftovers, not just view them
  • Scheduled background scans
  • iPhone companion sync
  • Cleanup history export

What you are buying, what lifetime covers, and what happens when an annual licence lapses →

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If Pro lapses, the app does not lock. An expired licence drops back to the free tier and everything free keeps working. Restoring files the app removed stays available in every state — expired, refunded, or never purchased. Undoing our own destructive action is not something to sell.

Questions

The ones worth asking first

Will it delete something I need?

Nothing is removed unless you select it and confirm it. Items the app considers unsafe to touch are shown but cannot be selected at all. Everything it does remove is recorded and can be restored. The App Store edition cannot remove anything under any circumstances — macOS enforces that, not our good intentions.

Why are there two versions?

App Store apps must run in a sandbox, which blocks an app from touching another app's files. That makes cleaning and uninstalling impossible there. Rather than ship a crippled cleaner, the App Store edition is a read-only analyser and says so, and the full app is distributed directly, signed and notarised by Apple.

Does it send anything anywhere?

No. There is no account, no analytics, no crash reporting and no network access in either edition. What it measures stays on your Mac. See the privacy policy, which is short for exactly that reason.

Why does the full app ask for Full Disk Access?

Because macOS puts caches, logs and application support files behind that permission, and an app that cannot read them cannot tell you they exist. You grant it in System Settings, and you can revoke it at any time — the app keeps working with less to show.

Is "lifetime" really lifetime?

It covers the app for as long as it is maintained, including future major versions — there is no upgrade fee planned. It is not a promise that any software runs forever on operating systems that have not shipped yet, and nobody honest can make that one. The exact terms are in the terms.

What happens to my files if I stop paying?

Nothing. Your files are yours and the app never holds them. Pro features stop; scanning, the treemap, cache and log cleaning, and restoring anything previously removed all keep working.