Uninstall the app. And everything it left behind.
Tideline finds the caches, preferences and background services an app leaves on your Mac — and moves only what you approve to the Trash.
A careful uninstaller, built like a Mac app.
Review first.
Every finding shows its path, size and confidence before anything moves.
Trash, never delete.
Removal is a move to the Trash, and Cleanup History can put it back.
Nothing leaves your Mac.
No account, no telemetry, no server that receives what Tideline finds.
It knows which files are really the app’s.
Name matching is how cleaners end up deleting something you still use. Tideline reads identities from the app bundle and its signature, and labels anything weaker as a review match that starts unselected.
Signals
From the bundle itself.
Bundle identifier, bundled helpers and signed app groups. The app’s name is review-only.
Labels
Confidence and scope.
Verified or review match; your account, administrator, or a read-only system record.
Coverage
Every Library folder.
Caches, preferences, containers, logs, launch agents, services, plug-ins and fonts.
The apps you deleted years ago are still here.
Tideline finds what removed apps left in your Library, grouped by developer. Vendors with an installed app are skipped, and nothing starts selected.
See where your space went.
Home
Long unused apps.
Disk usage at a glance, and the apps you have not opened in six months.
Reclaimable Space
Caches nobody owns.
Logs, caches and Xcode data, grouped and sized. Running apps are left alone.
Cleanup History
Put it back.
Every cleanup is recorded on your Mac, and items return from the Trash in one click.
Finding, choosing and removing are separate steps.
The last one always belongs to you.
- DiscoverInstalled apps, identified by bundle and signature.
- ScanKnown Library locations, at bounded depths.
- ReviewOnly strong matches may be preselected.
- ValidateEvery path is checked again before removal.
- Move to TrashNever a permanent delete.
- System apps protected by macOS cannot be uninstalled
- Shared or ambiguous files are never removed automatically
- Folder access is requested explicitly, and read-only
- Installer receipts are shown, never removed
It stays on your Mac.
No account, no analytics, no cloud. The only network request is an optional update check for the downloaded version, carrying version numbers only.
What it does not do — yet.
Machine-wide removal
All Users files are shown but held back until a signed privileged helper exists.
Protected data
Folders macOS keeps out of every app’s reach are listed, never touched.
Total coverage
A scan is bounded and conservative. It cannot promise to find every file.