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Mole for Mac
Native macOS app for cleanup, app management, maintenance, disk analysis, and live system status.
A Faberon work designed, built, and maintained by Tw93.
Overview
Mole for Mac is a native SwiftUI utility that covers everyday jobs people usually split across CleanMyMac, App Cleaner & Uninstaller, Sensei, DaisyDisk, and iStat Menus. It is the paid GUI product at https://mole.fit. It overlaps with the free Mole CLI in cleaning, uninstalling, optimization, disk analysis, and system status, but uses a separate implementation and adds a menu bar HUD, fan controls, startup management, and in-app app updates. This is a closed source commercial product, so there is no public repository.
Product relationship
The CLI is a separate free, open source terminal tool under GPL-3.0 at github.com/tw93/Mole. The Mac app is the paid native SwiftUI product at https://mole.fit. They overlap in cleaning, uninstalling, optimization, disk analysis, and system status, but use separate implementations and have different feature sets. The app adds a disk treemap, a bento status dashboard, a menu bar HUD, fan controls, startup management, in-app app updates, Privacy Check, and Clean Screen. The CLI keeps terminal-only commands like `mo purge`, `mo installer`, and `mo touchid`.
Key features
- Clean (Earth): ten cache categories plus Trash, sorted by deletion impact, with hardlink-aware sizing so shared files are not double-counted
- Software (Mars): app updates across Mac App Store, Sparkle, Homebrew cask and formula, and GitHub Releases; startup item management; uninstall with 15+ leftover categories
- Optimize (Mercury): a visible fix pass for self-healing macOS agents, then maintenance tasks in one tap (Quick Look, font cache, Launch Services, SQLite vacuum, login-item audit)
- Analyze (Jupiter): treemap disk visualization with drill-down, right-click to trash or reveal in Finder
- Status (Sun): live CPU, memory, GPU, disk I/O, network, battery, thermals, fan RPM and health score, with 60-second sparklines and a sortable process list
- Menu bar HUD: live CPU, memory, and network speed in the menu bar, with an icon-only compact mode
- Privacy Check: menu bar alerts for real camera and microphone use, not just permission lists
- Clean Screen: turn the display a plain color to wipe screen and keyboard, with an optional input lock
- Doctor: guided diagnostics for battery health, low-power mode, and other system issues
Practical details
- Pricing
- $19 one-time license. No subscription, no Pro tier. Lifetime updates. Up to 2 Macs per license. 14-day money-back guarantee. Each tool works twice for free and scanning is always free.
- Requirements
- macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. Apple Silicon and Intel.