Sweep
Find app leftovers and review files before removal.
The overview
What it does.
A Mac cleaner that shows its working. Sweep identifies application leftovers, rebuildable caches, developer files, and orphaned startup items, then turns each finding into an explicit choice. Uninstall plans distinguish an app’s own files from data another app still needs, and removals go to the Trash.
Under the hood
The details matter.
- 01
Scan leftovers, caches, logs, developer artifacts, and startup items with evidence attached to each finding.
- 02
Distinguish proven orphans, uncertain name matches, rebuildable data, and files still owned by an installed application.
- 03
Build an uninstall plan covering the app and its related files while excluding shared containers and protected vendor data.
- 04
Start every scan with nothing selected; validate allowed paths again at removal time and move selected files to the system Trash.
- 05
Restore privileged removals from a dated Trash folder and manifest, and maintain a persistent ignore list.
- 06
Run entirely on-device without network access; use a read-only command-line companion for scans, plans, and verification.
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