See what’s filling your disk, from big files and duplicates to old apps, plus the logs, caches and models your AI tools hide in dot-folders. Disk Clean AI says what’s safe to clear.
Pro is a one-time $19 (usually $39). No subscription, no account.
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AI Tools cleanup
Coding agents keep every session, AI desktop apps cache like browsers and download whole virtual machines, and each local model weighs gigabytes. Disk Clean AI knows where all of it lives and what clearing it costs.
On one real Mac
Claude alone held 9.61 GB, most of it an agent VM the app downloads again when you need it. That’s why it isn’t ticked: you decide.
Pure leftovers start selected. Anything you’d miss, like chat history or a model you’d have to download again, waits for you to tick it.
Rebuilt automatically the next time the tool runs.
Diagnostic logs. Nothing you need day to day.
Superseded copies. The version in use is kept.
Past sessions and chats. Once cleared, you can't resume or search them.
Downloaded model weights. They download again if you use the model.
Downloaded again the next time you use the feature.
Session transcripts per project, rewind checkpoints, to-do lists, shell snapshots and caches, debug and MCP server logs, and old versions of the native install (it keeps the newest and the one you run).
The desktop app's web and GPU caches, logs, older bundled Claude Code, the multi-gigabyte agent virtual machine and simulator builds.
CLI and app: session transcripts, prompt history, generated images, caches and logs.
The desktop app's caches.
Editor caches and update downloads, logs, and per-project workspace state including chat history.
Checkpoints and chat logs.
Downloaded models, as one item (drop a single model with ollama rm), and server logs.
Downloaded models, one item per model.
Hub models one by one, datasets, and the download chunk cache used by transformers, MLX and friends.
torch.hub checkpoints, Whisper models and models fetched with llama-cli -hf.
Local image and chat models, listed per model where the app keeps them separately.
The npx and uv/uvx package caches MCP servers run from. Packages download again when needed.
Looking is read-only and takes seconds, straight from your home folder. No full disk scan needed.
If Claude, Cursor or another app is open, it says so: quit it first so nothing is in use.
Your picks go through Review & Clean to the Trash, and Undo puts the whole batch back.
Free to see, Pro to clean. Anyone can see what each tool uses. Adding it to Review & Clean is part of Pro, a one-time $19.
Features
Disk Clean AI also scans your whole drive on your Mac, then groups what it finds into things you can actually act on. Every screenshot below is the real app.
Explore+6 views in Pro
The whole tree, drawn for you. Click any slice, rectangle or bubble to focus on it and read the details in the inspector on the right. Sunburst, Top Sizes and List are free; Pro adds the other six views and colouring by file type, folder or age. Anything you select can be revealed in Finder, previewed with Quick Look, or added to the cleanup queue.
Rings radiating out from the focused folder.
Find+2 in Pro
Four searches under one roof, each hunting a different kind of clutter. Large Files and Downloads are free. With Pro, duplicates are matched by size, a partial hash, then a full SHA-256 — so a match is a byte-for-byte copy — and similar photos are grouped by a perceptual hash, with the best copy marked Keep. Every result has a + to stage it for review.
Every file over 10 MB, largest first.
AppsPro
Every installed app with its size, version and the last time you opened it. Each one lists the caches, logs and support files it keeps in your Library — so you can uninstall the whole thing, or just sweep the leftovers.
Quick wins
The moment a scan finishes, the sidebar surfaces the usual suspects — with totals. Click one and Explore jumps straight to those folders so you can see exactly what you'd get back.
AI AdvisorPro
Add an OpenRouter key, pick any model, and the advisor reviews your biggest files, well-known cache folders, old downloads, unused apps and duplicate groups. It explains what's safe to remove and why, with a confidence level on every suggestion.
Review & Clean
Everything you stage lands here first, grouped by where it came from. Items from your Library or system folders are flagged for a second look; the rest are marked Safe. Tick what goes, hit Clean, and it all goes to the Trash — never straight to oblivion.
The startup disk, an external drive, your home folder, ~/Library, or any folder you pick.
The OS, frameworks, keychains, Mail, Photos and anything inside a package can never be queued.
Preview any file with Quick Look before deciding, or jump straight to it in Finder.
Each cleanup is one batch. Changed your mind? Undo puts every item back where it was.
Ocean comes free. Pro adds Daylight, Midnight, Graphite, Nord, Solar, Dusk, Forest, Sakura — or follow the system.
Your scan never leaves your Mac. The app only sends the AI request you choose to run, a daily update check and, with Pro, a daily license check.
How it works
Open AI Tools to see in seconds what Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and your local models have left in your home folder, or scan a whole drive. Everything runs on your Mac; nothing is uploaded.
Caches, logs and old versions start ticked; chat history and models wait for you. Add Quick Wins, large files and downloads, and with Pro, duplicates, unused apps and the AI Advisor's suggestions.
Tick what goes, skip what stays, hit Clean. Everything lands in the Trash, so you can still change your mind.
AI Advisor · Pro
The AI Advisor is part of Pro, and it runs on your own key: Disk Clean AI never proxies or resells AI credits. Paste an OpenRouter key, choose any model it supports — Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama — and pay OpenRouter directly. A typical scan costs a few cents.
Settings · AI provider
Pricing
Download Disk Clean AI to see what your AI tools use and clean up the usual suspects for free. When you want to clear the AI-tool clutter, duplicates, apps and the rest, Pro is a one-time purchase: no subscription, no account.
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See what’s filling your disk and clear the safe wins.
macOS 14+ · Apple silicon & Intel
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FAQ
What AI apps, coding agents and local models leave in your home folder: Claude Code session transcripts, checkpoints, caches, logs and old versions; the Claude desktop app's caches, agent virtual machine and simulator builds; ChatGPT caches; Codex sessions, prompt history and caches; Cursor and Windsurf caches and workspace state; Gemini CLI checkpoints; Ollama, LM Studio, Hugging Face, PyTorch, Whisper, llama.cpp, Draw Things, DiffusionBee and GPT4All models; and the npx and uvx caches MCP servers run from.
Yes. Caches, logs and old versions are rebuilt automatically or no longer used, and they're the only things Disk Clean AI ticks for you. For Claude Code that's shell snapshots, caches, debug and MCP server logs, and old versions of the native install; it always keeps the newest version and the one you're running. If an app is flagged as running, quit it first. Everything goes to the Trash, and Undo puts it back.
Only if you choose to. Claude Code transcripts and rewind checkpoints, Codex sessions and prompt history, Cursor and Windsurf workspace state and chats, and Gemini CLI checkpoints are tagged History and never ticked by default. Claude Code transcripts are listed per project; once one is cleared, claude --resume can't reopen those sessions.
Not unless you tick them. Models are opt-in and listed with their sizes; LM Studio, Hugging Face, Draw Things and GPT4All show one item per model. Ollama's models folder is a single item, so to drop just one Ollama model run ollama rm <model>. A cleared model downloads again the next time you use it.
Yes. The AI Tools screen shows every tool and item with its size in the free version. Adding them to Review & Clean is part of Pro.
The download is free, and so is the core job: see how much each AI tool uses, scan any drive or folder, explore it as a sunburst, ranked list or outline, find large files and old downloads, clear the Quick Wins (caches, logs, Trash, node_modules, Xcode DerivedData, simulators) and undo any cleanup. Pro unlocks everything else.
AI Tools cleanup, all nine Explore views with colour and depth controls, the duplicate and similar-photo finders, the app uninstaller, the AI Advisor, System Tools with the menu-bar monitor, every theme and custom thresholds and exclusions. It's a one-time $19 at launch (usually $39). No subscription, no account.
One license key works on up to three of your Macs at once. To move it, choose Settings › License › Remove License from This Mac on the old one, or email us and we'll free a seat.
Your license key arrives by email about a minute after checkout. Open Disk Clean AI, choose Settings › License (or click any Pro feature), paste the key and click Activate. Lost it? The Pro page can email it to you again.
Yes. If Pro isn't right for you, email us within 14 days of buying and we'll refund you in full.
No. Disk Clean AI used to be open source, but it's now a closed-source app with a free tier, so we can keep working on it full time. Versions that were already published under the MIT license stay that way.
About once a day the app checks your license with our license server: only the key, a random ID made for this install, your Mac's name, and the app and macOS versions. Never your files, your scan or anything about what's on your disk.
Yes, but only what OpenRouter charges. The AI Advisor runs on your own OpenRouter key, and Disk Clean AI doesn't mark up or resell model usage — a typical scan costs a few cents.
No. Nothing leaves your disk until you review a list and approve it. Approved items go to the Trash, so you can still get them back.
File paths, names, sizes, types and dates — enough to reason about what's clutter. It never reads file contents and never uploads files.
The app checks for new versions once a day and installs them in place after verifying the download. You can also check manually from the Disk Clean AI menu, or download the newest version from this site.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on both Apple silicon and Intel.
Guides
Tested, step-by-step guides to the storage problems people search for most — with the manual method and the one-scan shortcut.
12 min read
Where Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Ollama and Hugging Face keep sessions, caches and models on a Mac, what's safe to delete, and the commands that clear them.
11 min read
How much free space a macOS update really needs, why the installer ignores 'purgeable' space, and a 20-minute sequence that clears 50 GB or more so the update goes through.
11 min read
Time Machine local snapshots quietly hold on to files you've deleted. Learn what they are, how to list and delete them with tmutil or Disk Utility, and which one to keep.
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