# Mac Cleaner With No Subscription, Pay Once · ByteSweep Pro > Bytesweep Pro for Mac finds what filled your disk, from System Data to Docker and Xcode, and clears it with a 7-day undo. It also shows why your Mac woke up, what starts at login and which apps are out of date. Native Swift for Apple silicon and Intel, $29.99 once per computer. Canonical: https://bytesweep.app/mac.html Last updated: 2026-11-10 ByteSweep 3.2 for Mac ## A Mac cleaner that asks first. ByteSweep shows what is filling your Mac. You choose what goes. Anything cleaned can be put back for 7 days. [Download for Mac](https://bytesweep.app/download.html) Free to try for 3 days. macOS 14 or later. Apple silicon and Intel. Prefer the App Store? [Get ByteSweep for Mac, with the cleaning essentials](https://bytesweep.app/mac-app-store.html) **Notarised by Apple** (Checked by Apple for malicious software) ### Watch the demo ByteSweep 3.2 on a Mac, in about a minute. Shown with sample data. ### What it does on a Mac Pick a part, or keep scrolling. - New - Servers - My disk is full - Move to a drive - Free up space - Duplicates - Sleep - Updates - Live monitoring - Recovery - The notch New in ByteSweep 3.3 ### Your servers, and a full disk rescued ByteSweep 3.3 looks after the servers you run ByteSweep CLI on, frees space step by step when your own disk is full, warns you before it fills, shows what an update changed, and moves big folders to another drive. #### Your servers Every server you run ByteSweep CLI on, on one page, read over your own SSH: how full its disks are, waiting updates, backups and what needs a look. #### My disk is full When there is no room left, ByteSweep frees space fast from what apps make again by themselves, and stops as soon as there is room. Your own files are left alone. #### Alerts A warning before a disk fills up, sent to Slack, Discord, Telegram, email or a web address you choose. Alerts stay off until you add a place, and send nothing else. #### Before / after Take a snapshot before an update or an install, then come back afterwards to see what it changed. #### Move to a drive Copy a big folder to another drive, check the copy twice and leave a link so your apps still find it. Only then is the space freed. Bring it back whenever you like. #### For developers Cards for local databases, scheduled jobs and local web servers, and a list of who can log in to this Mac. Also new: a virtual machine's files in Storage open that machine's card, so a disk image is never removed on its own while the machine still needs it. Move to a drive takes the place of Archive to a drive, and what you archived before is listed there too. ### Look after your servers Add a server you reach over SSH and ByteSweep CLI runs on, and it sits in ByteSweep beside your own disk. ByteSweep CLI is a separate product: try it for 3 days, then it needs a licence of its own. - How full each disk is, and when it will fill - Waiting updates, backups and services that failed - Clean with Undo, clear old logs, install updates or plan a maintenance window - Databases, websites, jobs, who can log in, alerts, backups and snapshots, each on its own tab [Needs ByteSweep CLI on the server](https://bytesweep.app/cli.html) ### Every problem, explained Each finding opens its own page: what it means, why it matters and the steps to fix it. - A button that does it for you - Or the command, to copy and run yourself - You see what will happen before anything runs ### My disk is full When the disk has no room left, ByteSweep goes through the safe steps one at a time and stops as soon as there is room again. - Caches, logs and temporary files that apps and macOS make again - Says how much it freed, and how much is free now - Your documents, photos and other files are never touched - Removed for good, so the space comes back at once. To choose file by file with Undo, use Clean. ### Move to a drive Big things you rarely open, such as a photo library or an old project, go to another drive and stay within reach. - Every file copied, read back and checked twice - A link left in its place, so your apps still find it - Only then is the space freed - Bring it back whenever you like ### Tidy folders, your phone and your other computers The latest updates sort messy folders, connect ByteSweep to your other devices, and keep an eye on space for you. #### Organize a folder Downloads or any folder, sorted into tidy subfolders by kind, by date, or photos by the place they were taken. You see the plan before a file moves, and Undo puts it all back. #### Send to your devices Files, folders, a note or a link to your iPhone, Android phone or another computer, straight over your Wi-Fi. One device or several at once. It is in Finder’s Share menu too. #### Your phone, on the big screen View your phone shows every photo and video on it, and plays them. Clean your phone goes through its duplicates, big videos and screenshots; the phone asks first and deletes only after its own confirmation. #### Move to a new Mac Clean first, choose the folders, and send them to the new Mac over Wi-Fi. #### Space Guard Turn it on and ByteSweep keeps the disk from filling up: under your limit, it cleans the safe part, tells you, and keeps an Undo for a day. #### Do I need a new Mac? Check-up answers it for space: how long until the disk is full, and how much longer a clean would buy you. #### Files on your drives, found A Library search also finds files on drives you have catalogued, archived ones too, even when the drive is not plugged in. Also new: Your year with ByteSweep, a picture of your year to save and share, and Select all wherever items can be ticked. Your phone needs Bytesweep: Clean & Transfer from the App Store or Google Play. [How Organize a folder works](https://bytesweep.app/organize-folder.html) [How Send to your devices works](https://bytesweep.app/send-files-between-devices.html) ### Plain words, to start In Basic, Home says in one sentence what is going on, how much you can safely free, and what is worth doing next. - Five pages - No technical terms - One button to review and clean ### Every number, when you want it One switch at the top of the window turns on Advanced. Switch back whenever you like. - How busy the processor, memory and network are - Your biggest files, largest first - A page for Xcode, Docker and other developer files ### Get space back, safely Everything ByteSweep finds is rated safe to clear, review first or keep. Only the safe things are ticked for you. - Temporary files, old logs and the Trash - Leftovers from updates and from apps you removed - Files that apps and browsers keep to load faster - Anything cleaned can be put back for 7 days [More about freeing up space](https://bytesweep.app/junk-cleaner.html) ### Find what you have twice ByteSweep finds the second copies. You pick the one that stays. - Identical files, whatever they are called - Photos and videos that look alike - Whole folders that are copies of each other [More about duplicates](https://bytesweep.app/duplicate-file-finder.html) ### See why your Mac woke up last night A Mac keeps a record of every time it wakes, and gives you no way to read it. ByteSweep turns it into a report for each night. - How many times it woke, and when - What caused each one - How much battery it cost - Fixes you can apply, and undo [More about sleep and wake](https://bytesweep.app/mac-sleep-wake.html) ### Every app update in one list ByteSweep checks each app against the place it updates from, and lists what is out of date. - Apps from the Mac App Store - Apps that update themselves - Apps installed with Homebrew - An update is installed only when its signature checks out [More about app updates](https://bytesweep.app/app-updater.html) ### See what is slowing your Mac Right now, and over time. The history stays on your Mac. - Which apps work hardest - Which browser uses the most memory, with its open tabs - How warm the Mac runs, from every sensor - [Fan speed: automatic, or set by you](https://bytesweep.app/mac-fan-control.html) [More about live monitoring](https://bytesweep.app/system-monitor.html) ### Get deleted photos and files back ByteSweep looks for deleted photos, videos and documents on drives you plug in. - USB sticks, SD cards and external drives - Drives that were formatted by mistake - The damaged drive is only read, never written to [More about file recovery](https://bytesweep.app/file-recovery.html) New in ByteSweep 3.1 for Mac and Windows ### Describe the file. ByteSweep finds it. Type what you are looking for in plain words. The Library turns your sentence into filters you can see, and lists every file that matches. #### Where it came from Downloads are grouped by their source: Gmail, Slack, Google Drive, AirDrop and more. #### The words in a picture Copy the text out of a screenshot, a photo or a PDF. It is read on your own computer. #### Nothing is changed The Library only lists your files. To remove one, add it to your cleanup list and review it there. The search box understands sentences in English. The time and size menus beside it do the same in every language. New in ByteSweep 3.1 for Mac and Windows ### Or describe the picture. ByteSweep looks at your pictures on your Mac, so you can find one by what it shows, whatever it is called. #### By colour Type “pink” or “blue” and the pictures that colour stands out in are listed. There is nothing to download for this. #### By what is in it “Beach”, “dog” or “receipt” lists the pictures that show one. Apple’s own picture recognition names what it sees, on your Mac. #### By a whole description “Pink shirt”. “Dog on a beach”. A one-time download of 76.8 MB, started from the Library, understands sentences like these. After that it needs no connection. Your pictures are looked at on your Mac and are never uploaded. Descriptions are understood in English. [More about the Library and picture search](https://bytesweep.app/find-files-by-description.html) ### From scan to clean The real app, step by step. Shown with sample data. ### Everything at a glance Move the pointer to the notch and a small panel opens. Macs without a notch show it at the top of the screen. Choose and order the tiles, set the hover delays and the display, and open it with a keyboard shortcut. Hovering opens it for a look; a click keeps it open until you click away. Off until you turn it on in Settings. On a Mac without a notch, ByteSweep uses a thin strip at the top centre of the screen instead, and it steps aside while an app is full screen. ### Only on the Mac #### [Travel Mode](https://bytesweep.app/mac-sleep-wake.html) One switch stops the wakes that drain a closed MacBook in a bag. Turn it off and your settings are back as they were. #### [Dev Servers](https://bytesweep.app/dev-servers.html) Every local server still running on your Mac, with its project folder, its port and a Stop button. #### ShareSafe A check before you share your screen: sharing settings, files on the desktop and notification banners. #### In the menu bar A small live graph. From it you can quit the app that is working hardest. ### What is in "System Data" on a Mac? macOS shows it as one grey bar. ByteSweep finds what is inside, measures each part and says whether it is safe to clear. #### Time Machine local snapshots Hourly snapshots kept on the internal drive. Often the largest single slice, and the one people never find. #### [Xcode DerivedData](https://bytesweep.app/xcode-storage-cleanup.html) Build intermediates that grow forever. Twenty to sixty gigabytes on a working developer's Mac is normal. #### iOS simulators and device support Old simulator runtimes and symbol caches for iPhones you no longer own. #### iPhone backups Local backups in MobileSync, often tens of gigabytes, dated so you can keep the newest. #### [Docker.raw](https://bytesweep.app/docker-disk-space-mac.html) A single file holding every image and volume. It often passes 40 GB, and pruning alone does not make it smaller. #### App caches and containers Browsers, Spotify, Slack and every sandboxed app, matched back to the app that made them. #### Mail attachments Years of downloaded attachments kept locally by Mail. #### Leftovers from deleted apps Support files, preferences and launch agents from apps you dragged to the Trash years ago. #### Homebrew, pip and npm caches Package caches that rebuild themselves, cleared with the tool's own command rather than a blind delete. [What is System Data on a Mac: the full guide](https://bytesweep.app/mac-system-data.html) · [Why the number never adds up](https://bytesweep.app/blog/system-data-explained-numbers.html) ### Everything in ByteSweep Pro for Mac - ** [Storage analyzer.](https://bytesweep.app/mac-disk-space-analyzer.html)** Treemap, sunburst, flame graph, bubbles and a sorted list of any disk or folder. - ** [Clean.](https://bytesweep.app/junk-cleaner.html)** Caches, logs and build outputs rated safe, review first or keep, with a 7-day undo. - ** [Duplicates.](https://bytesweep.app/duplicate-file-finder.html)** Identical files, similar photos and videos, and duplicate folders. - ** [Apps.](https://bytesweep.app/app-uninstaller.html)** Uninstall with every leftover, and find leftovers of apps already gone. - **Developer.** Xcode, Docker, Homebrew, pip, npm, Gradle and Cargo caches. The node_modules folders in your projects are found by the Storage scan, under By kind. [What it clears for developers](https://bytesweep.app/mac-cleaner-for-developers.html) - ** [Startup.](https://bytesweep.app/startup-manager.html)** Login items and launch agents, including ones that point at deleted apps. - ** [Privacy.](https://bytesweep.app/privacy-check.html)** Which apps can use the camera, microphone, screen recording and your files. - ** [Monitor.](https://bytesweep.app/system-monitor.html)** CPU, memory, disk, network, GPU, battery, temperatures and fans, per-app network use and an energy estimate per app, history from five minutes to 30 days, and alerts when an app misbehaves. - ** [Sound and Bluetooth.](https://bytesweep.app/per-app-volume.html)** Output and microphone devices, a volume for each app that it remembers, and your Bluetooth devices with their battery levels. - **Screen Time and Containers.** Which apps you used, hour by hour, kept on your Mac; and running Docker containers with Restart and Stop. - **History and Ask.** A timeline of what changed, searchable in plain questions, on your Mac. - ** [Drives.](https://bytesweep.app/drive-catalog.html)** An offline, searchable catalog of your external drives. - ** [Recovery.](https://bytesweep.app/file-recovery.html)** Deleted files from USB sticks, SD cards, external drives and disk images. - **Fix.** One ranked list of what is worth doing first. - **Servers.** The servers you run ByteSweep CLI on: disks, updates, backups and problems, each explained. - **My disk is full and Move to a drive.** Free space fast when the disk is full, or move big folders to another drive with a link left behind. - **Alerts and Before / after.** A warning before a disk fills, sent where you choose, and what an update or an install changed. [See everything ByteSweep does](https://bytesweep.app/features.html) ### One price. No subscription. $29.99 (once, for one computer) Free to try for 3 days. One licence covers one Mac or one Windows PC. [See pricing](https://bytesweep.app/pricing.html) ### Is it safe? - Notarised by Apple, which means Apple checked it for malicious software. - Your files stay on your Mac. No account, and nothing is uploaded. - Anything cleaned can be put back for 7 days. - It asks for each permission only when a page needs it, and says why. [How it decides what is safe](https://bytesweep.app/how-it-works.html#safety) ### Questions #### Is ByteSweep a good CleanMyMac alternative? For storage, yes. ByteSweep covers disk analysis, junk and cache cleanup, duplicates, app uninstalling, startup items and app updates, for a one-time $29.99 instead of a subscription. It adds a 7-day undo for what it can put back, and sleep history. It does not include a malware scanner. See the [full comparison](https://bytesweep.app/compare.html). #### Does ByteSweep work on Intel Macs? Yes. ByteSweep 3.1 is a universal app for Apple silicon and Intel Macs running macOS 14 Sonoma or later. On macOS 13 or older, use ByteSweep 1.x. #### Is it safe to delete System Data on a Mac? Not as a whole. Parts of it are caches and snapshots that rebuild themselves, and parts are files your apps need. ByteSweep separates the two, pre-selects only the safe parts and keeps a restore point so you can undo for seven days. #### Why does my Mac wake up while it is asleep? Most wakes are dark wakes: the Mac wakes briefly with the screen off to check mail, sync, reach Bluetooth devices or run scheduled tasks, and an app can also hold it awake. macOS records each one in its power log. ByteSweep's Sleep module reads that log and names the cause of every wake. #### Is ByteSweep on the Mac App Store? Yes, as a smaller edition. ByteSweep for Mac on the Mac App Store has the cleaning essentials and runs inside Apple’s sandbox, so it leaves out what needs deeper access, such as live monitoring, fan control and file recovery. It is free to scan, and cleaning is one in-app purchase there. ByteSweep Pro, from this website, has every feature. [See it on the Mac App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bytesweep-storage-transfer/id6822710125?mt=12) #### What permissions does ByteSweep need on a Mac? None at launch. Full Disk Access is requested when a module first needs it, and administrator approval only for the few tools that change system settings. Each request explains why before macOS shows its own prompt. #### Does ByteSweep Pro for Mac use the internet? Only for these: activating your licence with Dodo Payments, our payment provider, and the Updates module, which reads your apps' own update feeds and Apple's App Store lookup and lists every host first. Two things you set up yourself also connect: Servers, over your own SSH to your own servers, and Alerts, which are off until you add a place and then send a short message only there. Everything else works offline. There is no telemetry. [More questions](https://bytesweep.app/support.html#faq) ### Try it free for 3 days. [Download for Mac](https://bytesweep.app/download.html) macOS 14 or later. Apple silicon and Intel. On macOS 13 or older, [use ByteSweep 1.x](https://bytesweep.app/install.html#older). [Also on Windows](https://bytesweep.app/windows.html) · [Also on iPhone](https://bytesweep.app/iphone.html) · [On the Mac App Store](https://bytesweep.app/mac-app-store.html) Updated 9 October 2026