โ† Writing / Jan 12, 2026 ยท 1 min ยท 194 words

Deep Clean and Optimize your Mac with Mo

I just stumbled upon Mole, a utility to clean and optimize Macs. What stood out to me is fact that it packs a bunch of GUI utilities (DaisyDisk, iStat, etc.) into a neat TUI.

The developer has received quite some scrutiny being Chinese but that didn’t stop a thriving community (+30 contributors) and user base (+28k โญ๏ธ, +80 ๐Ÿ‘€) to start using it.

Its core features are:

  • ๐Ÿชฅ Deep Cleaning, removing logs, caches, and browser leftovers
  • ๐Ÿ“ฒ Smart Uninstaller, including launch agents, preferences, and hidden scraps
  • ๐Ÿ”Ž Disk Insights, visualizing usage and allowing managing large files
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Live Monitoring, for CPU, GPU, memory, dis, and network

While designed for macOS, there’s a Windows branch in the making.

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| |  | | (_) | |  __/  https://github.com/tw93/mole
|_|  |_|\___/|_|\___|  Deep clean and optimize your Mac.

โžค 1. Clean        Free up disk space
  2. Uninstall    Remove apps completely
  3. Optimize     Check and maintain system
  4. Analyze      Explore disk usage
  5. Status       Monitor system health

โ†‘โ†“  |  Enter  |  M More  |  U Update  |  Q Quit