Applications

Build an application inventory, understand calculated sizes, and identify apps installed outside the main Applications folder.

Review available updates and open the appropriate update source without changing applications automatically.

Understand preferences, caches, containers, support data, launch items, and documents proposed during an uninstall.

Scan abandoned application data and distinguish true remnants from files shared with installed software.

Review disk images and packages while preserving installers needed for offline recovery, deployment, or legacy software.

Remove apps, related support files, abandoned leftovers, and installers.

Understand uninstall monitoring, related-file review, and what to do when an application leaves data behind.

Answers about uninstalling apps, shared files, leftovers, updates, installers, and protected application data.

Recognize macOS-protected and organization-managed software that should not be force-removed through ordinary cleanup.

Learn why app bundle size, related data, shared containers, inaccessible paths, and Finder totals can differ.

Deactivate software when required and retain purchase, installer, credential, and configuration information needed for reinstallation.

Find old builds on other disks, identify the copy you actually use, and avoid removing active related data.

Preserve group data used by multiple apps from the same developer when uninstalling only one product.

Keep selected preferences, projects, presets, databases, and licenses when temporarily removing an app.