Caretaker Download

Features

Everything it does.

Five places, the same as in the app. Pro marks what comes with Pro.

Home

Everything at a glance.

Caretaker's Home: what's safe to clear, the disk in dots, Auto Clean, your apps and the week.

Safe to clear

What one click clears, kind by kind, beside the disk in dots.

BoostPro

From the apps open now: keeps the Mac awake, pauses sync and Spotlight, holds back other apps. Any app.

Export watchPro

A notification when a render or export is done.

Your projects

Each with its last copy on another drive, so none is one disk away from lost.

Menu bar

Processor, memory and network; the apps using the most; projects to add.

Widget

The disk in dots, and what's safe to clear. Clean from it with Pro.

Finder

Right-click a folder: clear its caches, see what's taking its space.

Studio

Every project kept healthy.

Caretaker's Studio: a project's size, what it uses, its backup, and the caches and renders it can clear.

Project contents

Your files, media, and the caches and renders the app makes again.

Missing

Media outside the folder, missing fonts and plug-ins.

Cache & rendersPro

What the app makes again, cleared project by project.

BackupPro

The last copy on another drive, and a copy made and verified.

Collect FilesPro

Everything outside the folder, copied in.

ArchivePro

To a drive, every file verified, then the folder to the Trash.

Clean

Space back, without touching your work.

Caretaker's Clean page: safe to clear, system junk and creative app caches, in dots.

Junk

Caches, logs and leftovers apps don't clean up. Caches are deleted for good: apps make them again.

Creative CleanupPro

Old Adobe versions, sound libraries, unpacked downloads, caches in backups.

Fonts and plug-ins

Duplicate and broken fonts and audio plug-ins.

Large files

The biggest files, and the ones not opened in a while. Move to another drive with Pro.

Duplicates

Identical files in more than one place.

Similar photos

Near-identical shots, to keep the best.

Uninstaller

Apps removed with everything they left.

Cloud copies

Downloaded copies of cloud files kept on this Mac.

Developer

Xcode, simulators, Homebrew, Docker and package caches. Clean All with Pro.

Cleaning History

Everything moved to the Trash, for 90 days, with Restore.

Photo LibraryPro

Duplicates, similar shots, screenshots and blurry photos in Photos.

LeftoversPro

What removed apps left in the Library.

Old InstallersPro

Installers in Downloads for apps you already have.

ShrinkPro

Smaller photos, videos and folders. Nothing deleted.

Cloud SaverPro

What to remove from your clouds to pay for less storage.

TidyPro

Any folder by topic, kind or month, subfolders too, with Apple Intelligence. With Undo.

OrganizePro

By file type, in one click. With Undo.

Auto CleanPro

Junk, old downloads and old Trash on a schedule. Its switch is on Home.

Drives

Disks, speed and camera cards.

Caretaker's drive speed test: read and write speed, and what the drive is fast enough for.

Disk Map

Where the space on each disk goes.

Drive speed

Read and write, and what that's fast enough for: 4K or 8K video, photos, music.

Card offloadPro

Every card plugged in, to as many drives and cloud folders as you like at once, each copy verified.

Copy to drivePro

A project copied to a drive and verified.

What GrewPro

Folders that grew since yesterday, last week or last month.

Health

How the Mac is doing.

Caretaker's Health page: memory, battery and disk.

Health

Battery, disk, memory and temperature. Battery history and alerts with Pro.

Free Up Memory

One click hands back the memory macOS keeps for files it read lately.

Background items

What starts with the Mac and runs in the background.

Maintenance

Flush DNS, reindex Spotlight, free snapshots.

Security

Protections, adware, extensions and profiles. Remove adware with Pro.

App Updates

Apps with a newer version. Update All in one click with Pro.

PerformancePro

Why the Mac is slow now, and the fix for each cause.

Sleep & BatteryPro

What woke the Mac overnight, and where the battery went.

Try it.

Free to download. Pro free for 7 days, from inside the app.