RefreshYourMac is a Mac cleaner that identifies what is safe to delete. It finds what is filling your disk, rates every item for what cleaning it would cost you, and removes nothing until you say so.
KEY FEATURES
• Identifies what is safe to delete
• Measures everything before deleting anything
• Four safety levels decide what's cleaned
• Designed for touch on the new MacBook Pro
• Finds developer and AI tool leftovers
• Large files, duplicates and duplicate pictures
• Moves your own data to backup
• Uninstalls apps with their leftovers
• Memory Scanner
• Detect CPU background hogs
• Scheduled cleaning of safe items only
• Tells you when a restart frees space
• Available in English
• No account, no telemetry
WHO IT HELPS
• Anyone whose Mac says the disk is full — and who doesn't know what is safe to delete. RefreshYourMac shows what each item is and what cleaning it would cost.
• Developers — gigabytes of Xcode Derived Data, old simulator runtimes, package caches and AI coding tool folders that nothing else clears. It finds them and says which ones rebuild themselves.
• Photographers and video makers — the same picture saved twice at different sizes, and large files forgotten in Movies and Downloads. It finds the copies and keeps the best one.
• Anyone burned by a "clean everything" button — your own files cannot be swept up in a bulk clean, and nothing goes without your say.
THE FEATURES IN BRIEF
MEASURES FIRST — Every category is measured on your own Mac, with its size and the app or tool that made it, before anything is deleted.
SAFETY LEVELS — Every item is sorted into four levels: Safe to Remove, Review before deleting, Move to Backup and Protected. The level decides what the buttons may do.
DESIGNED FOR TOUCH — On the touchscreen MacBook Pro everything works with a finger. A ⋯ button on every row replaces right-clicking, and tick boxes replace ⌘-click.
DEVELOPER AND AI TOOLS — Xcode, simulators, Homebrew, npm, Yarn, CocoaPods and the scratch folders and histories of AI coding tools.
MOVE, DON'T LOSE — Copy your own data to another drive, then free the space on this Mac.
UNINSTALLER — Removes an app together with the support files, caches and preferences it leaves behind.
KEEPS ITSELF CLEAN — Clean on a schedule or when free space runs low. Only Safe to Remove is ever cleaned automatically: never your files, your password-protected items or the Trash.
MAINTENANCE — The periodic jobs macOS expects, run when you press Run. It also says when a restart would free disk: the swap files, and deleted files that running apps still hold open.
HONEST ABOUT MEMORY AND MALWARE — No memory purge and no pretend antivirus. It shows how much memory is genuinely spare, and reports XProtect's signature version and Gatekeeper's state, read from your Mac.
MENU BAR — The icon turns orange as the disk fills and red when it is nearly gone.
PRICING
A licence unlocks every file, cleaning, moving and the maintenance jobs: $29.99 once, or $14.99 a year. A licence covers 2 Macs. Requires macOS 15 or later; signed and notarised by Apple, with free updates in the app.
PRIVACY
• No account, sign-up or email address.
• No telemetry: no usage data, no crash reports, no counts of what you cleaned.
• Nothing about your Mac's contents leaves it.
• Two network calls, both named on the privacy page: an update check you can switch off, and a licence check.
LINKS
Website: https://refreshyourmac.com
Download: https://downloads.refreshyourmac.com/RefreshYourMac.dmg
How it decides: https://refreshyourmac.com/how-it-decides/
Privacy policy: https://refreshyourmac.com/privacy/
Support: https://refreshyourmac.com/support/
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