SweepWise

Know what it is
before you delete it.

Sweepwise lives in your Mac's menu bar and finds the gigabytes hiding in app caches, old downloads, and forgotten leftovers — then explains each one in plain English: what it is, how risky it is, and how to get it back. No jargon, nothing to learn.

Download for Mac v0.1.4 · 832 KB · notarized by Apple · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · free, MIT · all releases
Sweepwise◐⌥100%Sat 14:32
Sweepwisescanning… 4 found
A
App caches
~/Library/Caches
Scratch files your apps rebuild on their own. Safe to clear.
6.8 GB
↩ nothing to do
C
Old installers
~/Downloads
Leftover .dmg files for apps you already installed.
4.2 GB
↩ re-download
B
node_modules
~/Documents/Dev/webapp/node_modules
Building blocks a coding project downloads for itself.
11.3 GB
↩ pnpm install
C
Ollama models
~/.ollama/models
Downloaded AI models — huge, and re-downloadable anytime.
23.5 GB
↩ ollama pull
3 selected — 39.0 GBMove to Trash
Open sourceRead every line — MIT
Stays on your MacNo network, no accounts
Trash firstUndoable, never surprises
Free foreverNo trial, no upsell

How it works

Scan. Understand. Then decide.

STEP 1 — SCAN

Results stream in live

Sweepwise walks the folders you choose against 29 built-in rules for caches, old downloads, app leftovers, and more. Pause anytime and act on what's already been found.

STEP 2 — UNDERSTAND

Every row explains itself

Full path, plain-English description, a risk grade from A (comes back by itself) to D (your files — check first), and the exact way to get it back.

STEP 3 — CLEAN

Trash first, always

Everything goes to the Trash, so nothing is gone until you empty it. Permanent delete is a separate, explicit choice for items over 2 GB.

Why Sweepwise

Made for everyone, sharp enough for power users

Explains, never guesses for you

Other cleaners show a number and a checkbox. Sweepwise tells you what each folder is and what deleting it costs — then you decide.

AI you already pay for

Unknown large folders can be explained by your locally installed claude, codex, or gemini CLI. No API keys; Sweepwise itself never touches the network.

Learns only with consent

When you delete something the AI classified, Sweepwise offers to remember the rule. Nothing is saved without your approval — you're asked every time.

Knows where space hides

App caches, stale downloads, and old installers for everyone — plus the deep stuff power users pile up (node_modules, Xcode data, AI model stores) that generic cleaners walk past.

Open source, zero dependencies

Pure Swift and SwiftUI, no third-party packages, MIT licensed. Read every line before you trust it with your disk.

Honest about AI cost

Every scan shows its token usage — input, cached, output — and folders are batched so you pay the CLI's overhead once, not per folder.

Install

One line, or one drag

Paste this in Terminal. It grabs the latest release, moves Sweepwise to Applications, and offers to open it at login:

curl -fsSL https://sweepwise.app/install.sh | bash

Prefer to do it by hand? Download the zip, unzip, drag Sweepwise.app to Applications, and open it — that's it. Signed and notarized by Apple, so macOS opens it without complaint. Either way it lives in your menu bar: no Dock icon, no windows until you ask.

# prefer building it yourself?
git clone https://github.com/sweepwise/sweepwise
cd sweepwise && ./scripts/bundle.sh
open dist/Sweepwise.app # no Xcode project needed