CaretakerCaretaker 2.2.1
What's new.
Caretaker 2.2 is a Mac care app for creative work: your Mac and your projects kept clean, fast and healthy, in five places. Below it, what earlier versions brought.
2.2.1
Boost within reach.
Boost in StudioPro
Pick any open app under your projects and give it the whole Mac, whether or not a creative app is open.
Free Memory on Home
Always beside the memory reading at the foot of Home.
2.2
Your Mac, ready for creative work.
Five places
Home, Studio, Clean, Drives and Health. Creative Cleanup and Fonts & plug-ins now live in Clean.
Caches cleared for good
Caches and logs that apps make again are deleted, not kept in the Trash. Files you might want still go to the Trash first.
Boost from HomePro
The apps open now, with Boost and Free Memory beside them.
Your projects on Home
Each one with when it was last copied to another drive.
Project health
Studio shows what a project is made of, what it uses from outside its folder, its backup, and the caches and renders it can clear.
Finder's right-click
Right-click a folder: clear its caches, or see what's taking its space. Turn it on in Settings.
Motion, Cavalry and more
Motion, Cavalry, MainStage and Pixelmator Pro join the creative apps Caretaker knows.
Versions, quietly
Caretaker still keeps a version of every project file you save; Studio lists them and opens any as a copy. The full history is moving to an app of its own.
2.1.2
Branches, offload and Health, grown up.
Merge into any branchPro
A branch of a branch merges back into the one it came from, or into the project. The graph draws every merge.
Branches beside the project
Kept in the project's folder, hidden, so a backup or a package carries them.
Safe merges
Caretaker asks you to close the file in its app first, and says when the project changed since the branch was made.
Renamed projects
Rename or move a project and its history follows.
Offload to many placesPro
Every card plugged in, to a drive and a cloud folder at once, each copy verified.
Free Up Memory
One click, from Home, Health or the menu bar.
Update AllPro
Every app update in one click, App Store apps too.
Health, rearranged
The tools that act on your Mac each get a card of their own.
2.1
The history as a graph.
Branch graph
The project file and each branch at the head of its own line, their versions down it, newest first.
Branch versionsPro
Every save on a branch kept too, on the branch's own line.
Before export
A version kept when Premiere, Resolve, Final Cut, After Effects or Logic starts an export.
Autosaves by date
“Today 14:32”, “Yesterday 09:10”: the one you want, at a glance.
Restore
Put any version back. The file as it was is kept first.
Clear history
Keep only the latest version. The rest go to the Trash, ready to restore.
Tidy any folderPro
By topic, kind or month, subfolders too. Undo it if you change your mind.
Monthly, yearly or lifetime
Pro the way you want to pay, on up to three Macs.
2.0 · Projects
Version history, for every project.
Version history
An autosave version on every save, kept in Caretaker's own folder. The project folder stays as it is.
Name this versionPro
Mark the ones that matter: “Client round 2”, “Picture lock”.
BranchesPro
Try a change beside the project. Merge it, or archive it.
Compare with nowPro
Media, plug-ins and fonts added or gone since a version.
Save As copiesPro
“Final_FINAL (2)” gathered into one history.
Suggestions
Projects from the apps you have open, with a notification to add them.
Unsaved documents
An untitled Illustrator, Photoshop or InDesign document, saved as a project in one step.
Weekly summary
Hours per project on the days you choose as working days.
Studio
The Mac for the app you're in.
BoostPro
For any app, not only editors: awake, sync and Spotlight paused, other apps paused until you stop.
Open apps, in dots
Each open app's processor over the last minutes, and its memory, to choose the one to boost.
Never paused
Calls, music, the show's companions and other creative apps keep running.
Everywhere
A new look, and quieter.
Six places
Home, Studio, Projects, Clean, Drives and Health. Every tool in one of them, and ⌘K to find any.
Drives
Speed in footage, card offload and What Grew, in one place.
Menu bar and widget
Redrawn in dots, with projects to add from the menu bar.
Sounds
Its own sounds for a scan, a clean and an emptied Trash.
Light
Wakes when a file is saved or an app opens, not on a timer.
A new icon
In the Dock, the menu bar and everywhere else.
Get 2.0.
Caretaker updates itself. New here? It's free to download.