Mole

🧹 Like a mole, dig deep to clean your mac.

Features

• 🐦 Deep Clean: System/user caches, logs, temp and more
• 🛡️ Safe by default: Skips critical system and input method settings
• 👀 App Uninstall: Remove app bundle and related data comprehensively
• 👻 Smooth TUI: Fast arrow-key menus with pagination for large lists

Installation

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

Usage

mole               # Interactive main menu
mole clean         # Deep clean (smart sudo handling)
mole uninstall     # Interactive app uninstaller
mole --help        # Show help

Example Output

🕳️ Mole - System Cleanup
========================
🍎 Detected: Apple Silicon | 💾 Free space: 45.2GB
🚀 Mode: User-level cleanup (no password required)

▶ System essentials
  ✓ User app cache
  ✓ User app logs
  ✓ Trash

▶ Browser cleanup
  ✓ Safari cache
  ✓ Chrome cache

▶ Developer tools
  ✓ npm cache
  ✓ Docker resources
  ✓ Homebrew cache

🎉 Cleanup complete | 💾 Freed space: 8.45GB
📊 Items processed: 342 | 💾 Free space now: 53.7GB

What Gets Cleaned

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

Uninstaller

• 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 🥩🍤

License

MIT License © tw93 - Feel free to enjoy and contribute to open source.