Name: MacSentinel
Rating: 4.0 (1 reviews)

MacSentinel brings Mac monitoring, diagnosis, storage analysis, and cleanup into one native workflow. Instead of simply showing system metrics or deleting generic caches, it explains likely causes of slowdowns locally, then helps you act safely. Smart Care includes 500+ app rules across 50 categories, covering developer, creative, productivity, and AI tools. Cleanup is Trash-first and recoverable, and Pro is a one-time purchase — no subscription.

Most Mac cleaners just delete caches and call it a day. What I like here is that it explains the likely cause of a slowdown first, so you're not just nuking folders blind - the 500+ app-specific rules across dev/creative/AI tools is the part that actually matters since generic cleanup rules usually miss the tools I use daily. Trash-first cleanup instead of permanent delete is the right default for anything touching a live dev machine.

Would like a way to whitelist a rule permanently instead of re-approving the same cleanup suggestion every time it reappears for a tool I intentionally keep cache-heavy (like a local model runner).

CleanMyMac is the obvious comparison - it's polished but leans heavily on subscription pricing and generic "junk file" categories. MacSentinel's one-time Pro purchase and app-specific rule set for dev/AI tools felt more targeted to what's actually eating space on a machine that runs a lot of local models and build caches.

Thanks so much for the detailed feedback, Gal!

You’re absolutely right about the whitelist that was a missing piece. I’ve added it in the latest version of MacSentinel.

In Smart Care, you can now right-click any item and select Ignore to permanently whitelist it. You can also multi-select multiple items and whitelist them at once. Ignored items are completely excluded from future Deep Clean scans, so you won’t have to approve the same cleanup suggestion repeatedly.

If you ever change your mind, you can go to Settings → Whitelist to view all ignored items and unignore/remove them from the whitelist. They’ll then become eligible for Deep Clean suggestions again.

Really appreciate you pointing this out, especially the local model runner use case. Thanks for trying MacSentinel!

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Find what’s slowing your Mac then clean it safely

Find what’s slowing your Mac then clean it safely

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