Shodhana finds the caches, build artifacts, and leftovers of long-deleted apps eating your disk — tells you exactly why each one is safe to remove — and cleans only what you approve.
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · 14-day trial, no signup
What it does
Every item is attributed to the app, tool, or project that owns it, sized, dated, and grouped by how much thought it deserves.
The space map draws your reclaimable space to scale — categories on the inner ring, the actual folders and caches on the outer. Solid slices are selected to clean; pale ones stay untouched. Click any slice to select it or open it.
Not "junk found" — real names: Google Chrome's 2.5 GB cache, Xcode's build data, the cache Docker left behind when you deleted it. Every item is attributed, sized, and dated by last use.
Each item states why it's safe and what changes afterwards — "compiler output is fully reproducible from your source code; the next build runs from scratch." Risky things — browser data, your own files — are never selected for you.
Pick an app and see everything it owns — support files, caches, preferences, launch agents — and remove it all in one reviewed action.
Cleaned items are recoverable until you empty it, and every clean is journaled in History. You can always answer "what did it delete?"
A menu bar glance shows what's reclaimable. Scheduled scans only look — nothing is ever cleaned without you.
No account, no telemetry, no uploads. The scan engine is open about what it reads, and licenses verify offline.
For developers
Shodhana finds build artifacts per project — node_modules, Cargo targets, virtualenvs, DerivedData — verified against their manifests so a folder that merely shares a name is never touched. Then it tells you which ones you haven't built in months.
Pricing
Purchasing opens shortly. The 14-day trial runs now with no signup and no card — scanning stays free after it ends. Requires an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) on macOS 14+ — Intel Macs are not supported. Payments will be handled by Dodo Payments (merchant of record). Prices include applicable taxes. 14-day money-back guarantee — see refund policy.
FAQ
To measure caches and leftovers across your disk, macOS requires either one Full Disk Access grant or a separate permission dialog for every folder. Shodhana asks once, explains why, and works in a reduced mode if you decline — it never uploads anything anywhere.
The engine refuses to touch system-critical paths, profile data like bookmarks and passwords, and anything on your personal whitelist. Everything else is shown to you with evidence before removal, and deletions go to the Trash so there's always an undo.
Scanning and insight keep working free, forever. Cleaning and uninstalling pause until you enter a license key.
Because it never asks you to. Every item comes with evidence — what it is, why it's safe to remove, and what changes afterwards — instead of a single "junk" total you're expected to believe. It understands developer projects natively (node_modules, Cargo targets, DerivedData), refuses to touch system-critical paths and model stores outright, and sends nothing about your files anywhere. One-time purchase, no subscription.
Two, unless your key says otherwise. You can move a license yourself with Deactivate This Mac in Settings — currently up to three times a year, which covers real hardware changes without letting a key be passed around. Reinstalling macOS or restoring the same Mac doesn't count against that and doesn't use up a slot. Replacing a logic board can make a Mac look like new hardware, so it may need reactivating. Sold or broken Mac, or you need more moves than that? Email us and we'll sort it out — we're not trying to catch anyone out.
One request, once, when you activate: your license key and an anonymous fingerprint derived from your Mac's hardware identifier — never the identifier itself, and never anything about your files. After that it verifies your license on your Mac alone and works fully offline. Scanning and cleaning never talk to the network at all.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later on an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) — Intel Macs are not supported. Under 10 MB of disk space — the app is a native Swift interface over a Rust engine, not a bundled browser.
14 days, no questions. Email [email protected] or use the payment receipt link. Details in the refund policy.