Mole 1.14.0 for macOS

If you've ever used a tool that just lists a bunch of scary-looking files and hopes you'll blindly trust it, Mole is the opposite. It's a system cleaner from developer Tw93 that feels more like a careful sous-chef than a demolition crew. Let's walk through one real task: clearing out leftovers from an app you tossed out weeks ago.

What does a deep scan actually find?

With Full Disk Access granted, Mole digs into the corners where uninstalled apps leave crumbs—caches, preferences, and support files. It builds a plain list showing each file's name and size, nothing hidden, nothing uploaded. The scan runs locally on your Mac, so your browsing history and file contents never leave the machine.

How do you know what's safe to remove?

Mole plays it cautious. When there's any doubt about a file, it skips it rather than taking a guess. You see the full list before a single byte is touched, and the app waits for you to confirm the action. No silent deletions, no checkbox that's mysteriously already ticked.

Live CPU, memory, and battery dashboard

It does. Mole keeps a live dashboard of your Mac's vitals—CPU, memory, GPU, disk, network, battery charge, and even temperature. It's not just a one-and-done cleaner; it's a maintenance tool you can glance at to see if something's hogging resources in real time.

Who clicks with Mole the most

If you're the type who keeps your kitchen counters clear but never remembers to empty the fridge drawers, Mole is built for you. It's for people who want a cleaner Mac without becoming amateur sysadmins.

Developers who juggle a dozen Electron apps and Docker containers get a lot out of the real-time vitals panel—one glance shows whether a runaway process is chewing up memory before the fan kicks in. Designers with scratch disks full of render caches appreciate the treemap view, which makes it dead obvious that last week's project left a 12GB lump sitting in a folder you forgot about.

And for anyone who's grabbed a mole 1.11.0 for mac build back when it first landed on their radar, the upgrade path to 1.14.0 brings a quiet quality-of-life shift: apps you installed outside the App Store can now update right inside Mole, with a polite prompt before it quits anything running and reopens it after.

Post-project deep scan on a MacBook Air

Picture a video editor who just wrapped a three-camera project. The timeline is delivered, the client is happy, and now her MacBook Air is wheezing. She opens Mole, grants Full Disk Access for a deep scan, and watches the list populate—render cache files from DaVinci Resolve, old FCPX backups she forgot to toss, and a handful of leftover preference files from a plugin she uninstalled months ago.

She spots a 4GB temp folder she doesn't recognize. Mole flags it as a cache, not some mysterious system file, and waits. She taps confirm, then flips to the disk treemap to see what else is squatting on her SSD. Ten minutes later, she's reclaimed enough space to breathe until the next gig lands.

Bottom line: Mole cleans like someone who respects your machine, not someone who wants to gut it.

Version 1.14.0 tightens up a few things. Apps you grabbed from a website can now update right inside Mole, and the app got smarter about spotting a newer build of the same version. It also asks before quitting a running app during an update and reopens it when the install finishes.

• macOS 14 or later
• Works on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs
• Full Disk Access supported for deep scanning