Changelog

What’s new in macpurge. The free CLI core and the desktop app share the same engine.

v0.1.0June 21, 2026

A big safety, performance and visualization release. macpurge now defaults to recoverable (Trash) deletes, opens every page instantly, and ships a DaisyDisk-style Disk Usage view.

Added

Disk Usage view — an interactive radial sunburst of what is taking up your disk, with click-to-drill-down, breadcrumbs, a largest-items panel, Reveal in Finder, and one-click move-to-Trash.

Performance

Pages open instantly — scanning now runs off the main thread, so opening Applications, Packages, System, Dev Tools and AI Models no longer freezes for several seconds; a loading indicator shows while data streams in.
Smoother Projects list — virtualized rows and batched updates keep large project sets responsive.
Fixed a background loop that pinned a CPU core and flooded the UI with disk events.

Safety

Deletions move to the Trash by default (recoverable) and honor your “Use Trash” and “Confirm before delete” settings.
Protected-path guards make it impossible for a cleanup to touch system or home roots.
Archiving a project now verifies the archive and preserves symlinks before removing the source; restore is hardened against malicious archives.
“Mail Caches” no longer touches your actual Mail message store.
Destructive cache cleans now ask for confirmation.

Fixed

Readable error messages, no more leaked event listeners between pages, and a range of correctness fixes across the cleaners.

macpurge is free for macOS.