Understand every gigabyte on your Mac.
Reclaim recognizes what more than 80 apps and developer tools leave behind — Cursor, Xcode, npm, Docker, Homebrew, Ollama, Adobe, browsers and many more — then explains each finding in plain language: what it is, why it's there, what deletion changes, and whether it comes back.
No black-box "one-click cleaner." Every finding carries a rationale and a confidence level, so you always know why something is safe before you remove it.
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Reclaim walks your whole data volume and reconciles it — exactly — to the real used space macOS reports. Categories drill in to a full browser where you can filter by size and age, bulk-select, and remove straight to quarantine.
That opaque bucket gets itemized into Protected Data, macOS System, System Update Files, Virtual Memory, and residual snapshots — so nothing is a mystery. Big bundles like Photo libraries and apps stay whole, never carved up.
Uninstalling an app rarely removes everything. Reclaim cross-references what's installed against the data on disk and surfaces the caches, application support, and preferences left behind by apps that are long gone.
A system-bundle allowlist keeps macOS's own components off the list, and anything still owned by a live recipe is excluded — so you only see genuinely dead data.
Duplicate finder
Reclaim groups files by size, then confirms true duplicates with a sampled SHA-256 hash — so it's fast and it's certain. It keeps the newest copy and offers the rest for removal.
Duplicate detection is limited to personal categories — photos, movies, music, documents, downloads — so it never offers up the identical files your dev toolchains legitimately keep.
Beyond the toolchain, Reclaim gently flags personal wins: clusters of files piling up in one place, screen recordings and screenshots gone stale, old-and-large downloads, and installers for apps you already installed.
Everything here is personal, so it's sorted and toned — never auto-removed. Reclaim explains the pattern and its confidence, and leaves the decision entirely to you.
When you clean, items don't vanish — they move to a reversible vault on your Mac with a manifest for one-click restore. Undo anytime, or purge when you're sure. Reclaim honors macOS: it skips anything protected or in use rather than forcing it.
Empty the quarantine and Reclaim shows a shareable card — "Woohoo! You freed 18.4 GB" — ready to send.
History
Every cleanup is recorded in an append-only ledger. See your lifetime space reclaimed, what you freed this month, a chart of recent sessions, and a full per-session log you can look back through.
No guessing whether it "did anything" — the numbers are always there.
Reclaim doesn't just say "done." After a cleanup it rescans and measures the real free-space delta, then reports exactly how much you recovered and how many items moved — with zero errors, or it tells you why.
If APFS local snapshots are briefly pinning freed blocks, Reclaim explains the lag instead of pretending it failed. The space arrives as the snapshots age out.
More built in
Reclaim prefers the tool's own supported cleanup over raw deletion, gets apps out of the way first, and verifies the result — so cleaning is boring, which is exactly what you want.
Every finding is notarized by Apple and backed by a versioned recipe you can inspect. Growth tracking and a menu-bar watcher are on the roadmap.
New · AI explanations
One button, plain answers
Connect an AI provider and a ✨ button appears next to items in Scan and My Mac. Click it and Reclaim explains what a finding is and whether it's safe to remove — grounded in the real details of that item, never inventing a deletion.
Bring your own key
Use your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google key and pick any model — from cheapest-and-fastest to most capable. Your key is stored in the macOS Keychain and requests go straight to the provider you chose. Nothing runs through us, and it's completely optional.
Trust is the product
Reclaim scans read-only, prefers each tool's own supported removal method, and stops cold at anything macOS protects. Every finding lands in one of five clearly-labeled tiers.
Caches, previews, staging. One-click, after checking the app is closed.
Re-downloadable data and app leftovers. Quarantined with an undo window.
Chat history, sessions, logs. Explained, then only removed if you choose.
Photos, messages, cloud-synced files. Never auto-deleted. Ever.
System data and sealed assets. Reclaim reports them and leaves them alone.
80+ versioned recipes, and growing — grouped by what makes the mess.
Xcode & simulators, VS Code, Cursor, JetBrains, CocoaPods, Gradle.
npm · npx, pip · conda, Homebrew, NuGet, and their global caches.
Go, Rust, Flutter, Unity — build artifacts and module caches.
Docker, OrbStack, Parallels, VMware — images and sparse disks.
Ollama models, Hugging Face, pip wheels — the quietly huge ones.
Chrome, Safari, and Chromium caches and service-worker storage.
Adobe caches & Camera Raw, Spotify, Podcasts, Mail downloads.
Slack, Discord, Messages attachments, logs, installers, .ipsw files.
Leftovers from uninstalled apps and true byte-for-byte duplicates.
Other cleaners guess and delete.
Reclaim explains, then lets you decide.
The old apps show a spinning dial and a scary number, then delete things you can't see. Reclaim shows you every finding, tells you what it is and whether it comes back, and never acts until you say so.
Reclaim knows the difference between a rebuildable cache and your actual work — because it understands the tool that made it.
Everything goes to a quarantine you can undo. You purge only when you're sure.
A rescan after every cleanup measures the real free-space delta — no imaginary gigabytes.
Native SwiftUI, Developer ID signed and notarized by Apple, no third-party analytics.
Reclaim was born from a live session that recovered 90+ GB — without deleting a single source file, photo, or piece of app history.
Pricing
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Subscriptions renew every 6 months and can be cancelled anytime. See our Refund Policy.