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Mac cleaner for macOS 12 and later

Free Up Space on Your Mac. See Every File First.

Purgy finds the junk and the hidden System Data filling your Mac. It lists every file first, with its size and the reason it was found. You choose what goes, and it goes to the Trash.

3 days free, then $20 once for 3 Macs. No card to start. No subscription.

Scan, then clear it in one click
Purgy overview screen after a scan, showing the storage breakdown and system healthSystem Data decoded into measured, safe to free, review, and locked categoriesReview list showing every item with its size and the reason it was foundTrash screen with recoverable items and auto-empty turned off by defaultUninstall screen listing apps together with the size of their leftover filesDocuments screen showing large files, duplicates and stale downloadsScreenshots screen listing Desktop screenshots with their sizes and datesSpace map treemap of folders and drives sized by how much space they useSystem health monitor with live vitals and the top processes by usage
One scan shows what is safe to free and what is yours. Clear the safe part in a single click.

Most Mac cleaners hide what they do. Purgy shows you. It names every file before it moves it.

System data

What is System Data on a Mac?

It is the storage macOS cannot label for you: caches, snapshots, old backups and logs. On many Macs it grows past 50 GB, and Apple gives you no way to look inside. Purgy measures it and sorts what it finds into three groups.

  • Safe to free now. Junk that macOS builds again by itself.
  • Free after review. APFS snapshots and old iOS backups. You decide.
  • Your data, never touched. Mail, messages and app data stay locked.
System data
System Data decoded into measured, safe to free, free after review, and your locked data
Space map

Find out what is using your disk space

Purgy draws your Mac as a map. Big folders take up more room on screen, so the problem is easy to see. Click any folder to open it and keep going until you reach the files. Folders whose name starts with a dot are marked hidden, because Finder does not show them at all, which is why browsing never finds them. External drives work the same way, and macOS system files stay locked.

Space map
Space map showing a treemap of folders and drives with their sizes
System health

See what is using your CPU and memory

CPU, memory, disk, network and battery in one place, with the apps using the most right now. Quit a heavy one without leaving the screen. Purgy offers to free cached memory only when memory pressure is really high, and it tells you that this will not make your Mac faster. There are no fake speed-up buttons.

Monitor
Monitor showing CPU, memory, disk, network, battery and the top processes
Review list

Check every file before you remove it

Green is junk that macOS builds again on its own.Amber is your call: backups, AI models and old developer files, each shown with the reason it was found.Red is your own data, and it cannot be selected. What you approve goes to the Trash by default, so Finder can put it back.

Review
Review screen with green auto-selected items, amber items to review and locked red items
Screenshots

Clear old screenshots from your Desktop

macOS saves every screenshot to your Desktop and never takes one away again. Purgy puts them in one place with their size and date. Click one to see it full size, then clear the ones you have finished with.

Screenshots
Screenshots screen listing the screenshots found on the Desktop with their size and date
Uninstall

Uninstall Mac apps completely

Dragging an app to the Trash leaves its files behind. Purgy takes the caches, preferences and launch agents with it. Sort by last opened to find the apps you stopped using.

Uninstall screen listing apps to remove with their leftover sizes
Documents

Find large files and duplicates

Big files, exact copies, old downloads and apps this macOS can no longer run, in one list. Open a file to check it before you remove it.

Documents screen showing large files, duplicates and downloads
Trash

Nothing becomes permanent by accident

Cleaned files wait in the Trash until you empty it. Auto-empty is off until you turn it on and pick 7, 14 or 30 days. Emptying always asks first. Deleting permanently is a separate button, and it says so on the button.

Trash screen with recoverable items and the auto-empty setting
Menu bar

A quick clean without opening the app

The menu bar shows CPU and memory at a glance. Quit a heavy app or run the safe clean from there, in one click.

Menu bar popover with quick clean, CPU and memory readings and top processes
Cleaning method

You choose how cleaning works

Send files to the Trash so you can get them back, or free the space straight away. You pick, and Purgy remembers. It is a setting you can see, not a hidden default.

Settings showing the cleaning method, auto-empty and update preferences
Protected items

Protect a folder and it is never scanned

Add any folder to the protected list and Purgy will not open it. Grant or revoke Full Disk Access whenever you want. Scanning is always free.

Settings showing license, Full Disk Access, appearance and protected items

Built for people who do not trust cleaners

Specifications
Compatibility
macOS 12 Monterey and up, with no upper limit. A universal binary built against the macOS 26.2 SDK. It runs natively on Intel and on Apple Silicon.
Deletions
Reversible by default. Cleaning sends files to the Trash, so Finder can put them back. Deleting permanently is a separate button that says so. It is never the default and never a hidden setting.
Protected items
Never scanned. Add any folder to the protected list and Purgy will not open it or count what is inside.
Full Disk Access
On your terms. Grant it to scan, and take it back at any time in System Settings. Purgy keeps working on what it can still see.
Privacy
Nothing leaves your Mac. No account and no tracking. Purgy works offline apart from one license check per Mac. What it scans stays on your Mac.
Pricing

Pay once.
Own it forever.

No subscription, no account, no renewal date. Updates and fixes stay free for the version you buy. Buy it outright, or start with 3 days free. No card required.

Purgy lifetime license3 days free
Every feature
included
Devices
3 Macs
Updates & fixes
free, this version
Account
none required
Runs offline
yes
Total, once$20

Checkout opens on Creem.io, our payment partner. Pay by card and Apple Pay.

Your license key arrives by email, usually within a minute, so check your spam folder if you do not see it. The app is a separate download, always at purgy.app/download.

Universal binary · macOS 12 Monterey or later · Intel and Apple Silicon

Questions worth asking first

Do I decide what gets scanned and what gets deleted?

Both are yours to set. Add any folder, drive or app to the protected list and Purgy will not open it. Nothing is removed without your approval either. Every file is listed with its size and the reason it was found, you can uncheck anything before you clean, and what you approve goes to the Trash. The only exception is if you pick the permanent option yourself, which is always a separate button.

Will it ever delete files I still need?

No. Your own files are locked in red and cannot be selected automatically. That covers documents, photos, projects and app data. You choose anything else that goes, and by default it lands in the Trash, so you can put it back from Finder.

Can Purgy delete something permanently?

Yes, and we would rather tell you than let you find out. Cleaning sends files to the Trash by default, where Finder can put them back. Next to that sits a separate Delete permanently button. It skips the Trash and frees the space straight away. It exists because the Trash does not free anything on its own: files sit in it, still using the disk, until you empty it. Permanent delete does both steps at once. It is never selected for you, and you choose which one runs every time.

Is cleaning System Data safe?

Yes. Protected OS files are never counted as removable and never touched. Purgy only frees caches and snapshots that macOS itself rebuilds, or that you explicitly approve.

How many Macs does one license cover?

3 Macs on one $20 license, with no account and no renewal date. Pay once and the version you bought is yours to keep and use for as long as you like.

Are updates free?

There are two kinds of release, and each one tells you which it is before you install it.

free Bug fixes, refinements and new detection rules, for the lifetime of the version you own. No fee, ever, for these.
$8 A major rebuild, for the rare macOS release that changes how storage works underneath. Owners move across for $8 instead of the full $20. You can also keep the version you already paid for, which goes on working exactly as it does today.

No subscription, no renewal date, and no charge on a day you did not choose.

Does it run on older macOS versions?

Yes. Purgy runs on 12.0 Monterey and later, with no upper limit. It is a universal binary built against the macOS 26.2 SDK, so it runs natively on Intel (x86_64) and on Apple Silicon (arm64). An older Mac is usually the one that needs the space back most.

Get your gigabytes back.

A Mac cleaner that tells you what it is doing, at every step.

Checkout opens on Creem.io, our payment partner. Pay by card and Apple Pay.

Your license key arrives by email, usually within a minute, so check your spam folder if you do not see it. The app is a separate download, always at purgy.app/download.