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macOS · Free

Balaye

Sweep your Mac one file at a time. One file, one card, its real preview — swipe left for the Trash, right to keep it.

How it works

The steps, in order

  1. Pick a place
  2. Sweep
  3. Nothing is lost

Tidying a Mac is one decision per file, which is exactly why nobody does it. Balaye asks for one at a time: one file, one card, its real preview. Swipe left and it goes to the Trash; swipe right and you keep it; swipe up and you will look at it later. Screenshots, forgotten downloads, big files, old archives — the pile comes down line by line.

You give it whatever place you want: the picker, or a folder dropped onto the window. It leans on Spotlight, so the list appears straight away, and it recognises a screenshot by the mark macOS leaves on it, even after the file has been renamed. When there is a lot to get through, batch mode lays the files out in a grid and whole folders go at once.

Nothing is ever deleted: everything goes to the Trash, and nothing leaves it without you. ⌘Z undoes the last file, ⇧⌘Z undoes the whole session. From the keyboard: ← Trash, → keep, ↑ later, space to preview, ⌘R to open in the Finder.

No account, no server, no tracker — nothing leaves the Mac. macOS 14 or later. Free, with no subscription and no pro version. The app's own interface is in French for now.

Built by Connected Mate, in Paris. Releases and issues on GitHub.

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