Launching today
Tidy
Your Mac tidies itself: screenshots, installers, Downloads
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Your Mac tidies itself: screenshots, installers, Downloads
109 followers
Tidy lives in your menu bar and handles three chores you keep doing by hand. It archives new Desktop screenshots, renaming them from their content with on-device OCR — "Screenshot 14.22.10.png" becomes "invoice-march.png". It ejects thedmg you mounted and trashes the installer. It sorts new Downloads by type, with rules you write in plain English. Apple Intelligence builds them on-device, so nothing leaves your Mac. Only touches new files. Never deletes. $9 once, no subscription.
the fact that it only touches new files and never deletes anything is such a thoughtful call, basically removes all the anxiety of letting a tool mess with your stuff.
@birsensfl7 Thank you! Honest origin story: I've never trusted "cleanup" tools myself — so I built the one I'd trust. The rule I gave myself was simple: the worst possible bug should be "a file moved somewhere visible", never "a file gone". If that's the ceiling of what can go wrong, you can actually relax.
Anxiety was the real competitor here, more than any other app.
Screenshot auto-renaming on Mac is one of those tiny things I never bothered to fix and now wish I had sooner. The "never deletes, only touches new files" promise is what sold me.
@glenakbeleokoa Thank you! Screenshots are the perfect example of an annoyance too small to fix but too frequent to ignore — 30 seconds of squinting at thumbnails, 40 times a week. It never feels worth automating until someone automates it for you.
And you're in good company: "never deletes" is officially the most-quoted line of this launch. I'm taking the hint for the homepage :)
the "never deletes" line buried at the end is such a thoughtful trust signal, made me actually relax while reading. and the plain english rules for downloads feel like the right level of magic, on device and inspectable instead of some opaque sorter.
@ferdibatszcb Thank you — and you've spotted something real: you're the second person today to say the "never deletes" part is what made them relax. It might deserve a promotion from footnote to headline.
And "the right level of magic" is exactly what I was going for: the AI writes the rule, but the rule is a thing you can see — extensions, folder, minimum age, all visible and editable before it ever runs. Magic that shows its work, not a black box that moves your files on vibes.
@etiennegarcia Thanks Etienne! That was the original itch — the day I started building Tidy I counted 14 forgotten .dmg files in my Downloads. And the fun part: it doesn't discriminate. Seconds after I installed it for the first time, it ejected and trashed its own installer. It practices what it preaches :)
the screenshots renamed via on-device OCR is such a thoughtful touch. honestly didn't know i needed it until i saw it. love that it only touches new files too, feels safe to leave running.
@berilyldrtfy2q Thank you! That feature came straight from my own pain: squinting at a wall of "Screenshot 14.22.10.png" thumbnails trying to find one bank receipt. Naming them by what they actually say felt obvious in hindsight — the best tweaks usually do.
And "feels safe to leave running" honestly made my day — that was the entire design brief in five words.
the on-device OCR renaming screenshots based on their actual content is such a clever touch. feels like the kind of small detail that makes you trust the rest of the app to do the right thing.
@berkevgo Thank you! You can judge a restaurant by its bathroom — small, unseen care predicts the rest. That was the bet with Tidy: an app that touches your files has to earn trust in the smallest details first, because that's where people decide whether to believe the big promises. Really glad the OCR naming carried that weight for you.