One Tip a Week: Free Up 95GB on Your Mac

This week's tip of the week is Mole. I was using CleanMyMac and paying for it, but no need anymore.

Mole is a free and open source all-in-one command line tool that gives you CleanMyMac, AppCleaner, DaisyDisk, and more in a single free and open source binary.

Installation:

# via
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tw93/mole/main/install.sh | bash

# via Homebrew
brew install tw93/tap/mole

Run mo for an interactive menu:

Or jump straight to what you need:

mo clean         # Deep cleanup
mo uninstall     # Remove apps plus leftovers
mo analyze       # Disk space analyzer

Here's what a cleanup looks like in action:

Clean Your Mac

● Use --dry-run to preview, --whitelist to manage protected paths
➤ System cleanup requires admin access (Touch ID or password)
✓ Admin access granted

⚙ Apple Silicon | Free space: 427Gi
✓ Whitelist: 11 core patterns active

➤ Deep system
  ✓ System temp files
  ✓ System crash reports
  ✓ System logs

➤ User essentials
  ✓ User app cache 113 items (3.74GB)
  ✓ User app logs 52 items (10.8MB)
  ✓ Trash 15 items (593.2MB)

➤ macOS system caches
  ✓ Saved application states 13 items (164KB)
  ✓ Suggestions cache (Siri) 20 items (9.9MB)

It scans user cache, browser cache, developer tools, system logs, and app-specific junk from Spotify, Slack, and others. The README shows someone freeing up 95.5GB.

The smart uninstaller finds all the related files when removing apps across Application Support, Caches, Preferences, and Launch daemons. No leftover cruft.

Want to preview before cleaning? Use mo clean --dry-run.

Remember my tip about enabling TouchID for sudo? With Mole, just run mo touchid. Done.

Give Mole a go and let me know what you think!

That's it! Short and sweet. Until the next one!