For macOS 14 and later · Apple silicon and Intel

Clean your Mac
without the guesswork.

Systune finds the space your Mac is sitting on, audits 92 security and privacy settings, and puts 300 macOS preferences under your control. Every removal is listed, costed and confirmed before anything happens.

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Systune
The Systune overview: reclaimable space, free space, audit score, findings and a reclaimable list.
10.0 GBreclaimable
86audit score
56settings changed
  • Apple silicon native
  • Signed and notarized at release
  • No subscription
  • No telemetry, ever
  • Works offline

Most Mac cleaners ask you to trust them.

They sweep something up, show you a number, and bill you again next year. When a cleaner deletes the wrong thing you find out weeks later, and there is nothing to read back. Systune is built the other way round.

The usual deal

  • “Junk” you never get to inspect
  • A subscription that never ends
  • Phones home with what it found
  • One button, no way back
  • Numbers you cannot check

Systune

  • Every file listed with its size and age
  • Bought once, yours to keep
  • Nothing leaves your Mac
  • A test strip before commit, undo after
  • A history of every run, on disk
79cleaning categoriescaches, build output, package managers, browsers, virtual machines
92audit checksencryption, firewall, sharing, persistence, privacy, hardware
300macOS settingsFinder, Dock, keyboard, trackpad, power, security, Safari
67maintenance tasksrebuilds, service restarts, indexing, storage, read-only reports

Clean

See it before you lose it.

79 categories, each with a risk level and a plain description of what it holds. Scan, review, then read the test strip — the sheet that states exactly what the commit will do, path by path, before it does anything.

  • Caches of running apps are skipped, not silently deleted
  • A protected-path policy refuses your keychain whatever a category claims
  • Send to the Trash instead of deleting, on any category
  • Careful and dangerous categories are off by default

18.3 GB found on the developer’s own Mac, in build folders and toolchains alone.

Clean
The Clean review: categories grouped by area, each with a risk badge, description, item count and size.

Analyze

Find out what is actually using the disk.

Four views of the same folder, switched with one control: a list, a squarified treemap, concentric rings, and a breakdown by file kind. Folders are measured one at a time, so you can start browsing while the rest finish.

  • Largest files, files nobody has opened in months, and duplicates
  • Hard links counted once, so the totals are the truth
  • Stop any walk early — the figures then say “so far”
Disk
The Disk treemap: folders sized by area, the largest list beside it. The Disk ring chart: this level on the inner ring, its children on the outer.

Audit

92 checks, one honest score.

FileVault, SIP, the firewall, every sharing service, background items that run as root from a folder you can write, plug-ins that load into other apps, keys allowed to log in over SSH. Many findings come with a one-click fix.

  • A check that cannot be read reports unknown — never a pass
  • Informational findings carry no weight in the score
  • Run it deeper with administrator rights, or not at all
Audit
The Audit page: a score of 86 out of 100 with pass, warn and fail counts, then the security findings.

Tune & Maintain

300 settings. Undo on all of them.

The defaults Apple buried, in one place and in plain words — Finder, the Dock, the keyboard, the trackpad, power, security, Safari. Four profiles to apply a whole posture at once. Every change is snapshotted first, so undo always works.

  • 67 maintenance tasks: rebuilds, service restarts, read-only reports
  • Tasks whose tool a newer macOS removed say so instead of failing
  • Settings macOS keeps protected say they need Full Disk Access
Tune
The Tune page: macOS settings grouped by area, each a labelled switch. The Maintenance page: tasks grouped by kind, each with a risk badge and a Run button.

The promise

Nothing is removed that a scan did not list first.

That is the rule the whole engine is built around. Everything below follows from it.

Plan, then confirm

Interactive by default. The test strip states every path, count and byte before the commit, and waits.

Reversible by design

Send anything to the Trash instead of deleting. Every settings change snapshots the old value first.

Protected paths

Your keychain, iCloud Drive, Photos, Mail and Messages data are refused whatever a category asks for.

Honest about doubt

A check that cannot be read says unknown. A folder it could not open says so. No figure is invented.

A written record

Every run — cleans, settings, maintenance, startup edits — is recorded on disk and readable later.

Reviewed, repeatedly

Five rounds of independent security, correctness and performance review, with the findings published.

Every round is written up — what was found, what changed, and what was left alone on purpose. Ask for the review log →

One engine, four ways in

A real app. And a real command line.

The same Rust engine drives all four. Nothing is a wrapper around a shell script, and the terminal is not an afterthought — it does everything the app does.

macOS app

The full product, native and notarized, with the visual disk views and the test strip.

Command line

Every command takes --json. Scriptable, pipeable, and safe to run from cron.

Full-screen TUI

A dashboard in the terminal for people who live there. One keystroke to each surface.

iPhone companion

Pair over your own network to check on a Mac, and clean the phone’s photo library.

Pricing

Buy it once.

No subscription, no tiers, no upsell inside the app. These are the prices at launch. The first 100 people on the waitlist pay half — $19.50 instead of $39, once, and it stays yours for as long as you use Systune.

Direct

Recommended

$39once

$19.50 for the first 100 on the waitlist

  • 3 Macs, one household
  • Two years of updates, then keep the version you have
  • Full Disk Access and administrator tasks
  • The CLI and TUI included
  • 30-day refund, no questions
Get the founding price

Card or Apple Pay at launch. Licence key by email.

Mac App Store

$39once

  • Family Sharing, up to 6 people
  • Updates for as long as it is listed
  • Managed by Apple, refunded by Apple
  • Sandbox limits some administrator tasks
Tell me when it lands

Coming with the 1.0 release. App Store pricing is set by Apple's tiers, so the founding price is direct only.

There will be a trial

Fourteen days at launch, every feature, no account and no card. The trial is the full app.

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Questions

Is it safe to run on a Mac I depend on?

That is the design constraint. Nothing is removed that a scan did not list first, a protected-path policy refuses system and credential stores whatever a category claims, careful and dangerous categories are off by default, and you can send everything to the Trash instead of deleting. Settings changes snapshot the previous value so undo always works.

What does it send?

Nothing. There is no analytics, no crash reporting and no licence phone-home beyond the one-time activation. It works with the network off. The iPhone companion talks only to your own Mac, on your own network.

Which macOS versions?

macOS 14 Sonoma and later, on Apple silicon and Intel. Developed and tested on macOS 27.

Why is the App Store version limited?

App Store apps run in a sandbox. Some of what Systune does — editing launch daemons, running maintenance as an administrator, reading the permission database — is not available to a sandboxed app. The direct build has no such limits. Both are the same code; the App Store build hides what it cannot do rather than failing at it.

Do I need Full Disk Access?

Only for the parts that need it: Safari, Mail and Messages data, and the permission database the audit reads. Systune tells you which settings and categories are affected instead of quietly reporting a default as fact.

How is this different from CleanMyMac or OnyX?

Scope and posture. CleanMyMac cleans and is sold by subscription; OnyX runs maintenance and does not clean or tune; mole is a good command-line tool for reclaiming space. Systune is the only one that puts disk reclamation, a 92-check security audit and 300 macOS settings behind a single window, and it is bought once rather than rented. The difference you will notice first is that it shows you every file it proposes to remove, with size and age, and waits — there is no one-button sweep.

What does it actually delete?

Only what a scan has listed and you have selected. The 79 categories cover app and system caches, logs, crash reports, developer build products (Xcode DerivedData, node_modules, Rust target folders), package-manager caches for a dozen ecosystems, browser and Electron caches, Docker, simulator runtimes, virtual machine images, old language runtimes and toolchains, iOS backups and the leftovers of apps you have uninstalled. Your keychain, iCloud Drive, Photos, Mail and Messages data are refused outright whatever a category claims.

Is there a command-line version?

Yes, and it is not an afterthought — it does everything the app does. Every command takes --json, so it is scriptable and safe to run from cron. There is also a full-screen terminal dashboard for people who live in a terminal. The Mac app, the CLI, the TUI and the iPhone companion all run the same Rust engine.

Is the engine open?

Not yet. The engine is closed source for now, but the review log — five rounds of independent security, correctness and performance review, with every finding and its fix — is written up in full, and I will send it to anyone who asks before buying. The JSON contract all four surfaces speak is documented too.

Early access

Be one of the first 100, and pay half.

Systune is finished enough to use every day and not finished enough to sell. Leave your address and you get the build before anyone else — and the first 100 people here pay half price, $19.50 instead of $39. One payment, locked for life.

  • Half price for the first 100, then the normal price
  • One email when the beta opens, one when it ships
  • The founding price stays yours through every future version
  • No newsletter, no drip, no sharing your address with anyone
  • Unsubscribe by replying; the address is deleted, not flagged

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