Mole
A native Mac maintenance app that shows before it cleans
Mole launched on August 29, 2026 with 28 votes, #688 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
Clean caches, uninstall and update apps, inspect disk space, and monitor system health. Mole previews paths and sizes before cleanup, keeps scans local, and moves recoverable removals to Trash.
Mole is a native Mac app for cleaning caches and AI tool data, uninstalling and updating apps, analyzing disk space, and checking system status. Pay once, get free updates.
Clean tens of GB of junk and stale AI data, uninstall and update apps, analyze disk usage, maintain your system, and track live system stats. Clean files and AI data, uninstall and update apps, maintain your system, analyze disk space, and check live stats, with extra tools in the menu bar. Each celestial body follows its orbit, while Mole quietly looks after your Mac day to day. Mostly indie developers and engineers, many of whom came from the command-line version to the Mac app. Asked the Mole author how it actually works, then dug into why macOS junk piles up. My Mac was slow. I found an amazing free solution that cleaned it up, and now it's fast. Very good, runs in terminal. Free…from mole.fit
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