Caches, old downloads, leftovers from apps you deleted long ago. FreeUpDisk finds them, clears them, and keeps them from piling up again.
A storage manager for people who want their space back, not a second job.
Most cleanup tools show you a folder tree and wish you luck. Deep Scan works file by file: what an item is, where it lives, when you last touched it, and whether anything on your Mac still needs it. Every candidate gets a confidence reading:
Above the line, it's handled. Below the line, it asks. A file it can't identify at all is left exactly where it is.
Freeing space once is easy. The problem is that a disk fills back up, quietly, every single week. So FreeUpDisk treats cleanup as a schedule, not an event:
The weekly pass clears only what's provably safe: caches, logs, temp files, trash. Anything that needs judgment queues for your one-tap review, and it remembers your answer. Everything cleared sits in Recovery for 30 days.
Goblins are the things that eat up your space: caches, duplicates, old downloads, leftovers from deleted apps. They take up gigabytes you never gave them,multiply quickly, and make your Mac run slow.
You never put them there. Nobody did. They just accumulate, quietly, until the disk is full and the beachball starts spinning.
FreeUpDisk clears them out and keeps them out. No goblins are harmed: they're just returned to the void they came from, with a 30-day Recovery window in case one of them turns out to be yours.
This is your Mac without FreeUpDisk. The junk lands, it never leaves, and one day an export dies at 90%. The pile does not clear itself.Someone has to sweep, so we made it no one's job.
Watch it find and clear the space hogs automatically. You stay in control.
Caches, leftovers, and the junk hiding where Finder never looks. Found, named, and sized.
Everything found is itemized with its size. Clear it all, or pick your shots.
The scanning engine reads full drive metadata in under a minute on most machines.
Scanning is read-only and your stuff isn't eligible. Recovery holds every cleanup for 30 days.
Everything hidden in your drive, made visible in seconds.
all visible in the space map · all clearable with your ok
A Mac with no room left starts failing in ways that look like other problems. Apps quit mid-save, exports die at 90%, and macOS refuses to update. It isn't your hardware giving up. It's the last few gigabytes.
No more juggling files before a big download. No more "Storage Almost Full" at the worst moment. Your Mac just has room, all the time, like it did when it was new.
"I had 18.4 GB of caches in ~/Library. A family heirloom. Gone on a Tuesday."
— cache goblin"It found both copies. I had hidden the second one in a folder called 'New Folder (2)'. Unforgivable."
— duplicate goblin"Those installers were aging beautifully. Some of them were from 2023. You don't just clear a vintage like that."
— downloads goblin"The app was deleted years ago. I stayed. We had an arrangement. Then the weekly pass came through."
— leftovers goblin"Finally something that shows me WHERE the space went, not just that it's gone."
Rachel K. · photographer"The visual map is genius. I cleaned up 3 dev machines in one afternoon."
James C. · developer"My MacBook was suffocating. 15 minutes later I had 200 GB back. Incredible."
Tom H. · freelancer"I never realized how much space Docker images and old node_modules were eating. Eye-opening."
Carlos M. · backend engineerOnly what's provably safe: caches, logs, temp files that macOS rebuilds anyway. Everything else waits for your review, and everything cleared sits in Recovery for 30 days, so nothing is ever more than one click from coming back.
No. Your work, photos, and projects aren't eligible for cleanup at all. A hardcoded allowlist decides what can even be considered, and files FreeUpDisk doesn't recognize are left alone.
Scanning is free: see everything taking space on your Mac without paying anything. Cleaning uses a simple credit system, and your first cleanup is free.
macOS 12 and later on Apple silicon. Support for Intel Macs is planned.
DaisyDisk draws a beautiful map of your disk, then hands the cleanup back to you. FreeUpDisk cleans, automatically and on a schedule, so the space you free stays free. The map is one view in it, not the whole product.
Three things, all mechanical: system files are excluded by a hardcoded rule, anything uncertain defaults to keep, and every cleanup is reversible for 30 days through Recovery. Safety here is how it's built, not a promise on a website.
One download, and your Mac puts down everything it's been carrying for years.
macOS 12+ · Apple silicon