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Tidy
Your Mac tidies itself: screenshots, installers, Downloads
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Your Mac tidies itself: screenshots, installers, Downloads
129 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.
Love that it only touches new files and never deletes, took that worry off my mind right away. The plain English rules for Downloads feel like the kind of thing I actually want to set up once and forget about.
@bekirtrkneux6c Thank you! "Set up once and forget" is literally the design goal — there's a section on the site with almost exactly that title. My success metric is honestly a bit backwards: the less you open Tidy, the better it's working. The panel is there for the day you're curious about what it did — the other 364 days, it should just quietly earn its $9.
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.
Update, 48 hours after launch: everything this thread asked for is shipped — and then some. 🚢
v1.2 is live:
· Dry-run mode — flip it on and Tidy shows its plan ("file → destination") before anything moves, with one-click Apply
· Searchable history — including exactly what went to the Trash, so you can empty it with confidence
· Run-level undo — one click reverts an entire sorting pass
· Automatic updates — this is the last version you'll ever have to download by hand. Tidy keeps itself current from here on.
You asked on Tuesday. It's all live by Thursday. Free update, same $9, still no subscription: tidymacapp.com
Thank you for writing my roadmap — keep it coming.
Launch day is a wrap — thank you, everyone.
Final tally: #17 of the day, 125 upvotes, and the most trust-focused comment
thread I could have hoped for. You wrote half of the 1.1 roadmap yourselves:
preview/dry-run mode, a reviewable history, folder exclusions, and run-level
undo — all coming.
To everyone who bought Tidy on day one: your Mac is about to get very boring,
in the best way.
And to whoever finds the next edge case: hola@tidymacapp.com. Yesterday
morning proved fixes ship in about an hour. 🧹
@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 :)