You’re about to install something and your Mac tells you there isn’t enough space. Great, now the thing you wanted to do has become a storage-cleanup project.

So you delete a few downloads (it barely helps), then you find a huge folder buried in Library with a name that means nothing. Is it disposable cache? Something an app needs? Work you forgot about?

Yep, the frustrating thing isn’t freeing up space…it’s having to play Sherlock Holmes before you feel comfortable touching anything.

A disk analyzer shows you which folders are huge, but size alone doesn’t tell you what’s expendable. An uninstaller helps with apps you’re removing, but you still need the apps generating all those caches and build files. You end up bouncing between tools, trying to turn “this takes up space” into “this can go.”

That’s where Mole makes sense: it brings the disk map, cleanup candidates, and app leftovers into one place for review.

You still have to make decisions, but there’s less detective work between the low-storage warning and getting back to what you were doing.

Main features

• Review cleanup candidates: See caches, logs, and app leftovers before selecting what goes. Items you want to keep can be excluded from future cleanups.
• Find the big folders: A disk treemap lets you drill into storage usage, reveal files in Finder, or move selected items to Trash.
• Manage apps together: Review an app’s associated files when uninstalling, check supported updates, and manage startup entries.
• Inspect developer and AI-tool clutter: Build output, old tool versions, and eligible sessions or worktrees get dedicated review (sessions and tools aren’t selected automatically).
• Check what’s running: CPU, memory, disk, and network readings help you identify resource-heavy processes, with selected metrics available in the menu bar.

How does it compare?

• Mole vs. AppCleaner: Mole adds broader storage cleanup, disk analysis, and monitoring around the uninstall workflow. If uninstalling apps is all you need AppCleaner may be enough.
• Mole vs. DaisyDisk: Mole makes sense when finding large folders is only one part of the job. DaisyDisk also scans supported cloud accounts.
• Mole vs. CleanMyMac: Mole’s CLI is free and open-source. You can buy the desktop app for $19 and includes future major updates. CleanMyMac’s one-time license covers only its current major version (but also includes malware removal).

Pricing

• Mac app: $19 once for two Macs, no subscription, with free updates including major versions.
• CLI: Free and open source (GPL-3.0).

Links

• Website & Mac app download
• Free CLI & source code