A Mac cleaner that shows you everything first

Spotless is a Mac cleaner for people who want to see what they remove. It scans your disk once, explains every item and moves what you pick to the Trash. It costs $9 once. Buy for $9

What a scan finds

• Caches and logs in ~/Library/Caches and ~/Library/Logs, with a note on what rebuilds.
• Browser caches for Safari, Chrome, Firefox and others.
• Mail attachments that Mail stored locally.
• iPhone and iPad backups, old iOS updates and installers (.dmg and .pkg files) you no longer need.
• Unfinished downloads and add-ons such as preference panes, plug-ins, Quick Look and screen savers.
• Developer storage: Xcode, Gradle, Cargo, pnpm, CocoaPods, Homebrew and Docker, aware of which projects you used recently.
• App leftovers in Library and orphaned files from apps you removed earlier.
• Duplicates in any folder or drive, with keeper rules.

What it never takes without asking

Your Photos library, iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive folders, AI-app data, and project folders you used in the last 60 days are locked by default. You can turn each lock off yourself on the Protected page, after a confirmation. The full safety rules.

How a clean works

1. Scan. Spotless reads the disk once. Every page uses that result.
2. Look. Pick a category or open the space map. Each item has a one-sentence explanation and a confidence label: Safe, Review or Possible.
3. Choose. Nothing is ticked. You tick items, and the total updates.
4. Review. The review sheet lists every path and size. You can export the list as a text file first.
5. Trash. Items move to the Trash. Recently Deleted lists them, and restoring takes one click. Space returns when you empty the Trash.

Beyond cleaning

The space map and System Data breakdown show where the gigabytes are. The menu bar monitor tracks disk, memory, processor and network. Alerts warn you when space runs low or drops fast, and scheduled cleaning, which is off until you turn it on, moves only Safe items on a weekly, two-weekly or monthly schedule.

Price and licence

$9 once, not a subscription. One licence covers one Mac and every update to version 1, with a 3-day money-back guarantee. See everything that is included.

Learn the manual method first

Everything Spotless does can be done by hand, and the guides show how: free up space on a Mac, clear cache, understand System Data, find duplicates and decide whether you need a cleaner at all. Comparing options? See Spotless against CleanMyMac, CCleaner, DaisyDisk and others.

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