TidyDownloadTidy finds the caches, logs, leftovers and forgotten downloads that pile up over time, and lets you clear them in a click. You see everything first. A Health tab keeps an eye on heat, battery, disk and memory.
A cleaner should never surprise you. Tidy shows what it found, lets you untick anything, and asks once more before it moves a single file.
Each tab does one job well. Scan, review the list, untick what you want to keep, then clean. Health only looks, it never changes anything.
Scans the places Macs quietly fill up, with a size for each and a list you can expand. While it cleans, you see each file as it goes and a running total.
Removes an app along with the support files, caches and preferences it left behind in ~/Library, matched by its bundle ID.
Shows the launch agents and daemons that start with your Mac with their current status. Remove the login agents that belong to you.
Pick a folder and a size, from 100 MB to 5 GB. Results appear as the scan runs, biggest first.
A read-only check-up: heat level, the apps working the CPU hardest, battery, disk, memory and recent crashes, in one place.
Health shows how your Mac is doing right now and points out early warning signs, so you know when something needs a closer look. Each card says Good, Check or Problem. It only reads, and it never asks for your admin password.
Want a deeper hardware check? Health explains how to run Apple Diagnostics on Intel and Apple silicon Macs.
Tidy is ad-hoc signed and not yet notarized by Apple, so the first launch takes one extra click.
Download Tidy.zip, open it, and drag Tidy into your Applications folder.
The first time, right-click Tidy and choose Open, then Open again. After that it opens normally.
Pick a tab, review what Tidy found, and clean the items you choose.
Tidy runs on macOS 14 Sonoma or later. It works without extra permissions; give it Full Disk Access in System Settings → Privacy & Security if you’d like it to look into Safari’s cache and the Trash as well. The Health tab needs no extra permissions; temperature and fan readings depend on what your Mac reports.
Yes. Caches are temporary data that apps rebuild when they need it. An app may feel a little slower the first time you open it after cleaning.
Cleaned files go to the Trash by default, so you can put them back from there. If you turn off “Move to Trash instead of deleting”, or choose to empty the Trash, that part is permanent and Tidy warns you first.
Tidy isn’t notarized by Apple yet. Right-click the app, choose Open, and confirm. You only need to do this once.
No. Most of Tidy works without it. Full Disk Access only lets it scan a few protected places, such as Safari’s cache and the Trash.
Heat, the apps using the most CPU, temperatures and fans where available, battery health, disk SMART status and free space, memory pressure and swap, and kernel panics in the last 30 days. Each gets a Good, Check or Problem. It looks for warning signs; it doesn’t diagnose hardware faults. For that, it explains how to run Apple Diagnostics.
Not every Mac reports them to apps. When yours doesn’t, that card says so and the rest of Health works as usual, including the heat level.
App Store apps run in a sandbox that can’t reach other apps’ caches and leftovers, which is exactly what a cleaner needs to do.
No. Tidy has no account, no analytics and doesn’t send anything anywhere. It only looks at files on your Mac.
For Mac · macOS 14 Sonoma and later · First launch: right-click → Open