Smart Scan · what MacSweep does

Reclaim your Mac.
Without regret.

MacSweep indexes every file in your home directory, groups them by what matters — caches, build artifacts, forgotten downloads, redundant installers — and lets you decide. Quarantine instead of delete. Thirty days to change your mind. Optional Sweeper AI verdicts via your own ChatGPT subscription. Nothing leaves the machine that you don't see leave.

One person built this because a Mac cleaner once deleted a directory there was no undoing. The numbers in the sidebar — 1.56 M files, 175 GB indexed — came out of data/index.db on the laptop you can see this page from. Files quarantined in production: zero.

Storage Map

Where it actually lives.

A sunburst of your home directory by depth. Hover any slice to see its bytes; click to drill in. The same Apple-grade rendering you've seen in DaisyDisk and GrandPerspective — but every slice is selectable, every node has a Reveal in Finder, and the AI verdicts from Sweeper appear right inside the inspector.

Files

Five lenses, one index.

Same files, different cuts. Each tab gives you a different way to find what's worth losing.

• 01Smart picks — ranked by deletability score: size × idle months × file kind. Top of list = highest confidence.
• 02Categories — Caches · Dev artifacts · Trash · Logs · Installers · Downloads · iOS backups · Media · Documents · ML weights · Apps. With sizes and recoverable totals.
• 03Projects — auto-detected git repos, with separate columns for source size vs. node_modules/target/build artifact size. Last-touched age. Drill down to nuke artifacts only.
• 04Forgotten — files over 100 MB you haven't opened in a year. Excludes obvious system stuff.
• 05Largest — straight rank by size. Same row, different sort.

Sweep · the fast lane

Decide, in seconds.

The fastest way through the ambiguous middle band. One file at a time, full preview, source URL where it was downloaded from, Tinder-style swipe. ← Trash · → Keep · ↓ Skip · Space opens Quick Look. Each Trash builds a queue you commit at the end — nothing acts in real time, you can undo every swipe. Sweeper sits on the card too: ask for a one-line verdict before deciding.

Sweeper Audit · mass verdicts

Two hundred files, one batched call.

Per-file verdicts work for one file at a time. Sweeper Audit works for hundreds. It pre-filters via the deletability heuristic so the LLM only judges the ambiguous middle, batches twenty files per prompt (~30× cheaper than per-file), and writes the results to a sortable table. Filter by verdict + confidence threshold, multi-select the obvious wins, send the lot to Quarantine in one click — still reversible for thirty days, still bounded by the protected-prefix list.

Quarantine · how nothing gets lost

Move, don't delete. Thirty-day undo on everything.

The whole app is one principle, executed everywhere: nothing is destroyed without a recoverable copy. Every "Quarantine" action is a shutil.move into ~/.macsweep_quarantine/<timestamp>/. Restore puts the file back at its exact original path. The only call to os.unlink in the codebase runs after a 30-day timer — and it's logged in the quarantine ledger before it fires.

• ▸Hard-blocked paths — /System, /Library, ~/Library/Mobile Documents, ~/Library/CloudStorage, the quarantine root itself. Refused regardless of caller, regardless of AI verdict.
• ▸Atomic moves — same-volume rename(2), no partial states, no "trash but didn't get reclaimed yet".
• ▸One-click restore — Quarantine module shows everything; click Restore and the file is back where it was, original timestamps preserved.
• ▸Audit log — every action recorded with original path, size, timestamp, and category. SQLite. Inspectable.