Mole

🦡 Dig deep like a mole to clean your Mac.

A Bash toolkit that tunnels through caches, leftovers, and forgotten libraries so your macOS stays fast without risking the essentials.

Highlights

🦡 Deep-clean hidden caches, logs, and temp files in one sweep
🛡 Guardrails built in: skip vital macOS and input method data
📦 Smart uninstall removes apps together with every leftover directory
⚡️ Fast arrow-key TUI with pagination for big app lists

Install & Update

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tw93/mole/main/install.sh | bash

Daily Commands

mole               # Interactive main menu
mole clean         # Deeper system cleanup
mole uninstall     # Interactive app uninstaller
mole --help        # Show help

Quick Peek

$ mole clean
🦡 MOLE — Dig deep like a mole to clean your Mac.

Collecting inventory ...

▶ System essentials     freed 3.1GB  (caches, logs, trash)
▶ Browser cleanup        freed 820MB (Safari, Chrome, Arc)
▶ Developer tools        freed 4.6GB (npm, Docker, Homebrew)

🎉 Done! 8.5GB reclaimed across 342 items.
💡 Tip: run `mole --help` to discover more commands.

What Mole Cleans

Category	Items Cleaned	Safety
🗂️ System	App caches, logs, trash, crash reports, QuickLook thumbnails	Safe
🌐 Browsers	Safari, Chrome, Edge, Arc, Brave, Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi	Safe
💻 Developer	Node.js/npm, Python/pip, Go, Rust/cargo, Docker, Homebrew, Git	Safe
🛠️ IDEs	Xcode, VS Code, JetBrains, Android Studio, Unity, Figma	Safe
📱 Apps	Common app caches (e.g., Slack, Discord, Teams, Notion, 1Password)	Safe
🍎 Apple Silicon	Rosetta 2, media services, user activity caches	Safe

Smart Uninstall

Fast scan of /Applications with system-app filtering (e.g., com.apple.*)
Ranks apps by last used time and shows size hints
Two modes: batch multi-select (checkbox) or quick single-select
Detects running apps and force‑quits them before removal
Single confirmation for the whole batch with estimated space to free
Cleans thoroughly and safely:
- App bundle (.app)
- ~/Library/Application Support/<App|BundleID>
- ~/Library/Caches/<BundleID>
- ~/Library/Preferences/<BundleID>.plist
- ~/Library/Logs/<App|BundleID>
- ~/Library/Saved Application State/<BundleID>.savedState
- ~/Library/Containers/<BundleID> and related Group Containers
Final summary: apps removed, files cleaned, total disk space reclaimed

Support

If Mole has been helpful to you:

Star this repository and share with fellow Mac users
Report issues or suggest new cleanup targets
I have two cats. If Mole helps you, you can feed them canned food 🥩🍤

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