Everything goes to the Trash first
Storage Buddy draws your storage on a picture of your own Mac, shows you exactly where the space went, and helps you clear out caches, old downloads, duplicates and forgotten build folders, without guessing what's safe.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon & Intel · 6.3 MB
How it works
No mystery buttons. You always see what will be removed before anything moves.
Storage Buddy looks through your disk and draws it on your Mac, sorted into apps, documents, media, developer files, caches and more.
Everything it suggests is grouped as Safe, Review or Caution, with a plain-English note on what each item is. You pick what goes.
Files move to the Trash first, never straight to oblivion. Changed your mind? Put Back from History.
Features
A clear picture first, then careful tools to tidy up. Each one explains what it found before it asks you to do anything.
Overview
Storage Buddy recognizes your model (Mac mini, MacBook, iMac, Mac Studio or Mac Pro) and fills a drawing of it with your storage, one soft color per kind of file. You see the whole picture in a glance.
Explorer
Explorer lays out your folders as colored blocks on your Mac's screen. The bigger the block, the more space it takes. Click one to go inside.
Smart Cleanup
Smart Cleanup gathers the clutter Macs collect: caches, logs, old downloads, leftover installers, old iPhone and iPad backups and developer caches. Then it lets you decide.
Tidy up
Three smaller jobs that add up to a lot of space.
Finds identical files hiding in different folders. It always keeps at least one copy of every file, and it skips code projects so your repos stay intact.
See what's actually sitting in your Trash and how much space it holds, then empty it all at once when you're ready.
Uninstall apps together with the support files they leave behind, and find leftovers of apps you already deleted.
Works in the background
Start a cleanup and carry on. The work keeps going while you use the rest of the app, with live progress in the sidebar.
Progress lives in the sidebar, so you can browse Explorer or Duplicates while a cleanup finishes.
And more
Small things that make a big difference over time.
Remove the local copy of a file and keep it safe in iCloud Drive.
Move big folders to another disk. Storage Buddy verifies the copy first.
Right-click any folder and choose Analyze with Storage Buddy.
Export what you found as a PDF or CSV.
Optionally run the Safe cleanup automatically. It's off unless you turn it on.
A heads-up when your disk is running low on space.
Keep an eye on your storage from the menu bar.
Soft colors in both, following your Mac or your choice.
For developers
Build folders and dependency caches pile up fast. Storage Buddy finds the rebuildable stuff and leaves your source alone.
Finds the heavy, rebuildable folders in projects you haven't touched in months: node_modules, Pods, build, .dart_tool, target, .venv and more.
Your source code is never touched. Only build output and downloaded dependencies, which you can rebuild or reinstall anytime.
Clears old Xcode simulator runtimes, Docker images and build cache, and Homebrew leftovers, using each tool's own command, only after you confirm.
This screen only appears when those developer tools are installed on your Mac.
Privacy & safety
Storage Buddy doesn't send your files or file names anywhere. It works entirely on your Mac.
Scanning and cleaning happen locally. Storage Buddy doesn't send your files or file names anywhere.
Download it, open it, use it. There's nothing to sign up for.
Protected system locations are never touched, no matter what you select.
Files move to the Trash, not into the void. You can still restore them in Finder.
History remembers what was removed so you can put it back where it came from.
Nothing is deleted until you've reviewed it. Riskier items are labeled Review or Caution.
FAQ
Storage Buddy is built around not losing things. Nothing is removed until you review it, items are labeled Safe, Review or Caution, protected system locations are never touched, and everything goes to the Trash first. If you change your mind, use Put Back from History or restore from the Trash in Finder.
It works best with it. macOS hides some folders (like Mail, Safari data and parts of your Library) from apps unless you grant Full Disk Access in System Settings › Privacy & Security. Without it, Storage Buddy still works, but it can't measure those folders, so the picture is less complete. The access is only used to measure and clean files on your Mac; nothing is sent anywhere.
They're moved to the Trash, just like dragging them there in Finder. They stay there until you empty the Trash, and History lets you Put Back recent removals. Developer Tools is the one place that works differently: they run each tool's own cleanup command (for example, for Docker or Homebrew), and only after you confirm.
Any Mac running macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple silicon or Intel. The Overview draws your actual model: Mac mini, MacBook, iMac, Mac Studio or Mac Pro.
Yes. Storage Buddy is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS checks it and opens it like any other Mac app.
No. Projects only looks at build output and downloaded dependencies, like node_modules, Pods, build, target or .venv, which your tools can recreate. Source files are never touched, and Duplicates skips code projects entirely.
See where your space went in a minute, then clean up at your own pace. Everything goes to the Trash first.
Version 1.5.3 · macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Apple silicon & Intel · 6.3 MB