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Storage Buddy
Free Mac storage cleaner thatsends everything to Trash first
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Free Mac storage cleaner thatsends everything to Trash first
2 followers
Storage Buddy is a free Mac disk space analyzer and cleaner. It draws your storage as a picture of your own Mac, explains System Data, and shows folders as blocks you can click into. Smart Cleanup gathers caches, old downloads, duplicates, old iPhone backups, idle node_modules, Xcode simulators, and Docker data, sorted into Safe, Review, and Caution. Nothing is deleted until you review it; everything goes to the Trash first, and History can put it back. No account, and nothing leaves your Mac.
Hey everyone, maker here.
This one started because my MacBook kept telling me the disk was almost full, and "About This Mac" just showed a giant gray bar called System Data. Not helpful. I tried a few cleaner apps, but most of them wanted me to hit one big "Clean" button and trust them. I didn't.
So I built Storage Buddy. It draws your actual Mac (mini, MacBook, iMac, Studio or Pro) and fills it with your storage, so you can see right away what's taking up space. Then you can click into any folder as blocks and keep going until you find the culprit. For me it was 40 GB of old iPhone backups I'd completely forgotten about.
If you write code, the Projects screen is probably the part you'll like most. It finds node_modules, Pods, build, target and .venv folders in projects you haven't opened in months. It also handles old Xcode simulators, Docker images and Homebrew leftovers. It never touches your source files.
The rule I built everything around: nothing gets deleted behind your back.
Cleanup is split into Safe, Review and Caution, so you know what you're looking at
Everything goes to the Trash first, and History can put it back
No account, no sign up, nothing leaves your
It's free and runs on macOS 14 or later, Apple
Curious what you find on your own Mac. Drop your biggest surprise in the comments, and tell me if something's missing. I'm reading everything today.