Changelog

Spotless uses plain version numbers. Updates within version 1 are free for licence holders. Each release is listed here with what changed and why, newest first.

Version 1.0

First release.

Cleaning

• Nothing is ticked after a scan, and every item explains itself.
• Removals go to the Trash and are listed under Recently Deleted, so you can put them back.
• Dry-run export and keyboard shortcuts.
• Categories: caches, logs, browser caches, Mail attachments, iOS backups and updates, installers, add-ons and unfinished downloads.
• Scheduled cleaning, off by default. Choose every week, every 2 weeks or every month in Settings, Alerts. It moves only items marked Safe to the Trash, skips Review items, locked places and anything that needs an admin password, and tells you with a notification. It never opens a window over your work.

Storage

• Treemap space map, folder explorer, large and old files, System Data broken into named folders, and local snapshots.
• Developer storage for Xcode, Gradle, Cargo, pnpm, CocoaPods, Homebrew and Docker, aware of which projects are active.

Apps and files

• Uninstaller with leftovers, Reset app, a shared-data guard and an orphan scan. Leftovers from deleted apps can be selected all at once.
• Duplicates in any folder or drive, aware of hard links, with keeper rules.
• Startup items page.

Licence and legal

• The licence activates itself when you open Spotless after buying, and is checked once a day.
• Settings, About shows the privacy policy, user agreement and refund policy inside the app.

Monitoring and alerts

• Menu bar monitor for disk, memory, processor, network and Docker. Memory page with a Quit button. Health page for thermal state, battery cycles and drive status.
• Low-space and fast-growth alerts, a free-space forecast, a weekly scan and a scan-finished notification.
• Menu bar warning thresholds you set in Settings decide when the label turns orange and red.

Protection and privacy

• Photos, iCloud, cloud folders, AI-app data and active projects are locked by default. A Safety Lock switch on Home turns the locks off for everything at once, after a warning. Settings, Locked lists each protected place with its own switch.
• An Unlock all button on a page, and a Delete button in every item's info card, each with a warning. System files, passwords, Mail, Messages, Safari and the inside of the Photos library stay locked whatever you choose.
• Nothing about your files leaves your Mac, and there is no telemetry.