App Archiver
Compress Mac apps in place and restore them in one click
What it does
App Archiver reclaims Mac disk space from apps you rarely use. Unlike cache cleaners, it creates lasting savings by working with the apps themselves. Optimize installed apps with native macOS compression, archive them in place as lightweight restorableapp bundles, or create verified ZIP and DMG backups. Archived apps stay visible in /Applications, Spotlight, Alfred, and Raycast, ready to restore with one click. Everything runs locally with no Internet access or data collection.
Save lasting disk space with lossless compression that keeps app code, resources, signatures, and integrity intact.
Reclaim space without rewriting an app's code or resources. Use transparent, lossless compression, archive an app where it already lives, or save a backup for later. I often run out of disk space because I like downloading useful Mac apps and keeping them for later. Deleting an app removes it from sight. Turning it into a file and putting it somewhere else makes it easy to forget. Many cleaner tools focus on caches that apps simply create again. So I built the kind of space saver I wanted. App Archiver can reduce the app itself while leaving a lightweight version in the same place. When I need the app again, I double-click it and restoration begins. Most cleaning tools either remove things…from apparchiver.com
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