Find out what's actually filling your Mac.

Download the DMG, open it, and drag MacGroom to Applications — no account, no installer, no license key. It's signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens normally: no Gatekeeper warning and no right-click-to-open workaround. On first run, macOS will ask for Full Disk Access (needed for accurate results and to read ~/.Trash) — grant it in System Settings, then relaunch MacGroom. Requires macOS 13 or later; the download is universal, so it runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel.

Now — Pro is on sale at the $24 introductory price. Buy a license from the pricing section above, then unlock it by entering the key you're emailed into Settings; the app you already have installed is the same build, so there's nothing to reinstall or migrate. The free tier stays available and isn't a trial: it doesn't expire or nag either way.

No. Scanning, sizing, and deleting all happen with local commands you can read the source of — nothing about what's on your disk, what you clean, or how you use the app is ever uploaded, logged remotely, or shared. MacGroom does make a couple of narrow network calls unrelated to your files: a version check against gogenops.com at every launch (so it can tell you when an update's available, sending only your app and macOS version) and, if you've entered a MacGroom Pro key, a license re-check against Polar.sh at every launch (which does send that key, to Polar only, to confirm it's still valid — never anything about your disk).

Yes — all three, free. Each keeps its own separate copy of the same model weights, and none of them ever clean up after themselves, so comparing even a handful of local models routinely means 50–150GB of duplicate, forgotten checkpoints. MacGroom finds them under Dev Tools & Projects: Ollama and LM Studio models are always flagged for review rather than swept in automatically, since they're re-downloadable but you might still be using one; Hugging Face's cache is cleared along with your other regenerable dev-tool caches.

Free forever, no trial timer, no nagging. Caches, Downloads, Trash, Browser caches, Dev Tool caches, and the App Cleaner (find-and-remove installed apps + their leftovers) all work fully for free, indefinitely, on any Mac. MacGroom Pro unlocks three specific power features on top — it doesn't cripple or time-limit anything that's free today.

Three features: Deep Scan (finds large files and folders across Documents, Desktop, Pictures, and Movies), Dev Project Artifacts (recursively finds node_modules, Python virtualenvs, target/, Pods, and other regenerable build output across every project on your Mac), and Storage Trend (tracks how your free space changes day to day, and which category is growing). One $24 license unlocks all three, on up to 3 Macs.

No. $24 once, ever — not a monthly or yearly fee. It unlocks Deep Scan, Dev Project Artifacts, and Storage Trend for good, with free updates for as long as the app is maintained.

Almost never by design. Every deletion goes through macOS's own Trash — recoverable until you empty it — and you always review individual items with their sizes before anything moves; scanning alone never deletes anything. The one exception is emptying Trash itself, which is clearly badged as permanent with its own separate confirmation, since there's nowhere further to trash Trash's own contents to.

No. Every path MacGroom touches is under your home directory or a user-owned tool cache (Homebrew, Docker, npm, etc.) — nothing requires elevated privileges. macOS's Full Disk Access permission is requested for accurate results and to reach ~/.Trash, same as Finder itself needs.

macOS 13 (Ventura) and later, on both Apple Silicon and Intel — it ships as a universal binary. It's a native SwiftUI app with zero third-party dependencies, not an Electron wrapper.

Check your inbox for the receipt email from Polar.sh, sent the moment you bought MacGroom Pro — it has a link to Polar's customer portal, where your key is always available to view again. Can't find that email either? Use the contact form below with the email you paid with and we'll look it up.

Open an issue on the public GitHub support repo — bug reports and feature requests both have a quick template. You can also use the contact form below.

Not currently — MacGroom is closed-source. The GitHub repo is for issues and release notes, not app source. If you want something open, though — see the next question.

Yes — macgroom-cli is a free, open-source (MIT) terminal tool covering the same Dev Tool Caches and Dev Project Artifacts categories that are free in the app: `brew install soodrajesh/tap/macgroom`, then `macgroom scan` or `macgroom clean`. Same safety model — Trash, not rm, and AI model weights are always flagged for review, never swept in by --yes alone. It's an independent, from-scratch reimplementation of the scan logic, not a wrapper around the app. Full walkthrough on the blog →

MacGroom checks for updates automatically at launch, and on demand from Settings — no account, no background service. When a new version is available, you'll see what's new and a link to get it; nothing installs silently without you choosing to. Release notes are announced on the GitHub repo.