Take back
your disk.
Detox hunts down forgotten caches, build artifacts, and large old files — and removes them only on your confirmation. Read-only Scan. Trash by default. Never touches a project you’re still working on.
Free to use · one lifetime Clean · unlimited with Detox Pro (one-time, no subscription)
A real Scan. Every Finding sized, sorted, and safe to review.
How it works
Scan, review, then clean — in that order.
Scan
A read-only discovery pass walks the folders you grant. It measures reclaimable space and produces Findings. It never removes anything.
Review Findings
Each Finding is a path and a measured size. Safe, regenerable junk and stale dev artifacts come pre-checked. Personal files and toolchains never are — you pick those.
Clean
One Confirmation, then Detox moves your selection to the Trash — reversible until you empty it. Permanent delete is an opt-in choice, never the default.
Trashed ≠ Freed
Honest about every byte.
Cleaning moves items to the Trash. Your bytes come back only when you empty it — so Detox reports the two numbers separately, and never claims space it hasn’t actually returned.
Trashed
198.9 MB
staged · recoverable
Freed
0 KB
empty Trash to free
What Detox actually shows after a Clean. A cleaner that says “Freed 8 GB” while it sits in your Trash is lying to you.
Built to be safe
Cautious by design.
A disk cleaner earns trust by what it refuses to touch. Detox defaults to the reversible, declines other apps’ data, and is honest about the difference between staged and freed space.
Nothing without a Confirmation
Every Clean passes through a “Remove N items — X GB?” dialog. The pre-selected action is always Trash.
Trash by default, reversible
Cleaned items move to ~/.Trash. They are Trashed, not yet Freed — your bytes return only when you empty the Trash.
Sandboxed — no Full Disk Access
Detox is a sandboxed App Store app and never requests Full Disk Access. It acts only on folders you explicitly grant.
Your files are never “junk”
Irreplaceable files and installed toolchains are surfaced as Inventory — listed for you to review, never pre-checked, never auto-removed.
Other apps stay untouched
Detox can see other apps’ container data but never cleans it — that is their live data. It is shown read-only so you know where space went.
Some space is simply walled off
Mail, Safari, Messages stores and the system volume are Protected by macOS. No app — and no purchase — can reclaim them.
Help & FAQ
Questions, answered.
The Scan is read-only — it only measures. Nothing is removed until you approve a Confirmation, and the default action is always Trash, which is reversible until you empty it. Permanent delete exists, but it is an opt-in choice you make per-Clean; it is never pre-selected.
Cleaned items are Trashed, not yet Freed. They move to your Trash and still occupy the disk until you empty it. Detox reports these as two separate numbers on purpose. Empty the Trash to actually free the space.
There is a single App Store build. Free gives you the whole product — Scan, Findings, paths, Finder reveal — but you may execute Clean once, for life. Detox Pro is a one-time purchase (non-consumable, no subscription) that lifts that cap to unlimited Clean. The path is simply Free → Detox Pro.
Buy Detox Pro — a one-time in-app purchase that unlocks unlimited Clean. Already bought it on another Mac? Use Restore Purchases in the app to bring it back.
No. Detox is sandboxed and never requests Full Disk Access. At onboarding you grant a single bookmark to your Home folder; you can Add folder… later to cover external volumes or dev directories outside your Home.
That lives in the other app’s container — it is their live data (your messages, media), so removing it would be data loss, not cleaning. Detox shows it read-only as Other apps’ data so you know where space went; clear it from within that app.
It’s the space genuinely walled off from every app — the Mail, Safari, and Messages stores, a handful of hardened containers, and the system volume. No grant, purchase, or even Full Disk Access can reclaim it. It’s a macOS ceiling, not a Detox limitation.
It’s a presentation lens over the same engine, switchable anytime. User View uses friendly names and consumer categories. Dev View shows exact paths inline, developer categories (node_modules, .venv, DerivedData, Gradle…), and a terminal-style console. It does not change what gets cleaned.
If you used the default Trash action, open your Trash and put the item back. If you explicitly chose Permanent delete, it bypassed the Trash and cannot be recovered by Detox.
Detox is distributed on the Mac App Store. Download it there, open it, and grant your Home folder at onboarding to run your first Scan.
Still stuck?
Talk to a human.
Found a bug, hit a wall, or have a question the FAQ didn’t cover? Email us with your macOS version and what you were doing — we read every message.
support@detoxapp.website→- Purchases & refunds
- Detox Pro and refunds are handled by Apple. Use Restore Purchases in the app, or request a refund through your App Store purchase history.
- Response time
- We aim to reply within two business days.