00 / See where your disk space goes.

Tare

Find what's eating your Mac's disk.

A fast, native disk analyzer for macOS. Scan millions of files in seconds, drill into folders, clean up with confidence. Built natively for Apple Silicon.

Download for macOS See the features ↓

macOS 26+ · Free trial · Universal binary

FIG. 01 / MAIN VIEW Tare main window

12s to scan 2M files

0.13s to rescan unchanged

<1ms to find any file

0 telemetry, ever

01 / Five cross-synced views

Every angle on your disk.

Three structured tables here (tree, top files, duplicates), plus a squarified treemap and a file types panel further down the page. Selection and highlights flow across all five: click a folder in the tree, watch it glow in the treemap. Filter by file type, see only those files in the top list.

Tree View

WizTree-style hierarchy with seven sortable columns. Size, allocated, % of parent with inline bar, file and folder counts, modified date.

Top Files

Every file, flattened, largest first. Filter by type (Images, Videos, Archives) to narrow in on the 40 GB video buried eight folders deep.

Duplicates

Files grouped by name and size. Computed in milliseconds from the in-memory tree. Pick which copy to keep, trash the rest in one sweep.

02 / EXTENSIONS

50,000+ extensions

File types known out of the box.

Tare ships with over 50,000 file extensions organized into 20 categories. Every file gets colored and classified automatically, with custom categories you can edit when a default doesn't fit.

03 / SMART FOLDER GROUPING

Collapses the folders you already know.

Thousands of cache files and build artifacts shouldn't drown out the stuff you actually care about. Tare recognizes well-known macOS folder patterns and renders each as a single labeled block, with the real device name, project count, or game name baked into the label.

Double-click any grouped block to zoom in and see what's inside.

Xcode: DerivedData, Simulators (per device), iOS & watchOS device support
Package managers: node_modules, Pods, .pub-cache, vendor/bundle, site-packages
Version control: .git, .svn, .hg
System: Library/Fonts, Caches, Containers, Application Support, /private/var/folders
Gaming: Steam libraries (per game), Epic Games, GOG
AI/ML: Hugging Face cache, Claude CLI data, Ollama models
Bundles: .app, .framework, .xcarchive, .sparsebundle

04 / EVERYTHING-STYLE SEARCH

Write a query. Find the file.

Milliseconds per query

Inspired by Everything (voidtools). Once the scan is done, every query runs against the in-memory index in milliseconds. No re-scan, no disk hit. An `ext:` filter returns in 0.05 ms, over 1,000 times faster than a naïve scan. 19 of 33 documented query shapes complete in under one millisecond on half a million files.

Click a query to see plausible matches populate instantly below.

Every filter you'd reach for

ext:, path:, parent:, depth:
size: with `>`, `<`, and ranges (`100mb..1gb`)
modified:, created: with `today`, `7days`, `2024-01-01`
regex: for full pattern matching
Boolean operators: space (AND), `|` (OR), `!` (NOT)
Size constants: `empty`, `tiny`, `large`, `huge`, `gigantic`

Matches ext:mov size:>500mb 6

4K_holiday_tokyo.mov ~/Movies/Raw
2.4 GB Apr 12
interview_final_v3.mov ~/Projects/Podcast
1.8 GB Mar 28
drone_footage_raw.mov ~/Downloads
1.2 GB Jan 14
timelapse_sunset.mov ~/Movies/2025
820 MB Feb 02
screen_recording.mov ~/Desktop
712 MB Apr 15
wedding_edit.mov ~/Movies/Family
598 MB Dec 18

Matches parent:node_modules size:>10mb 6

typescript.js .../node_modules/typescript/lib
42 MB Mar 22
esbuild.darwin-arm64 .../node_modules/@esbuild
18 MB Mar 22
webpack.js .../node_modules/webpack/lib
14 MB Feb 04
eslint.js .../node_modules/eslint/lib
12 MB Jan 29
rollup.js .../node_modules/rollup/dist
11 MB Mar 10
three.module.js .../node_modules/three/build
10 MB Feb 17

Matches *.log !error modified:7days 6

access.log ~/Library/Logs
8.4 MB Apr 14
system.log /private/var/log
6.1 MB Apr 14
apache2.log /opt/homebrew/var/log
4.2 MB Apr 13
bun-install.log ~/.bun/install/cache
820 KB Apr 12
xcode-build.log ~/Library/Developer/Xcode
512 KB Apr 11
fastlane.log ~/Projects/ios/fastlane
318 KB Apr 10

Matches ext:psd size:huge 6

cover_art_final.psd ~/Design/Posters
1.2 GB Mar 25
magazine_layout_v4.psd ~/Design/Clients
840 MB Feb 11
product_mockup.psd ~/Design/Products
720 MB Mar 18
hero_banner_8k.psd ~/Design/Web
680 MB Jan 29
album_artwork.psd ~/Design/Music
520 MB Apr 02
packaging_print.psd ~/Design/Print
480 MB Mar 14

Matches depth:>5 size:large 6

libvips.dylib ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/.../lib
88 MB Mar 22
DerivedData-cache.db ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/.../Caches
72 MB Apr 10
iPhone_17_runtime.dmg ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Volumes
62 MB Mar 15
ml-model.mlpackage ~/Projects/furolog/ML/Checkpoints/v3
48 MB Feb 28
sourcekit-lsp.log ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/.../Logs
36 MB Apr 09
hf-cache.safetensors ~/.cache/huggingface/.../models
32 MB Jan 21

Matches regex:^IMG_\d{4} 6

IMG_0421.heic ~/Pictures/iPhone/2026-04
4.2 MB Apr 14
IMG_0420.heic ~/Pictures/iPhone/2026-04
3.8 MB Apr 14
IMG_0389.heic ~/Pictures/iPhone/2026-04
4.6 MB Apr 12
IMG_0344.jpg ~/Pictures/Camera/Canon
8.1 MB Mar 28
IMG_0220.dng ~/Pictures/Camera/Raw
24 MB Feb 19
IMG_0118.png ~/Desktop/Screenshots
2.4 MB Feb 04

05 / BATCH RENAME

Rename tens of thousands of files in seconds.

Prefix, suffix, numbered sequences, case change, find-and-replace, regex, metadata tokens. Live two-column preview. Conflict detection. Undo on failure. Rename is fully reversible.

**Simple** Prefix and suffix, optional sequence numbers with custom start/step/digits, optional find-and-replace. Enough for the 80% case.

**Advanced** Regex find-and-replace, date-from-metadata tokens, case transformations, extension swaps. For the rest.

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06 / CLEANUP

Mark it, review it, reclaim it.

Two-phase delete. Nothing is removed until you explicitly confirm. Mark files or folders with Backspace, review everything in one panel, then choose Move to Trash (undoable) or Delete Permanently.

Mark Backspace toggles cleanup marks. Marked items turn red with strikethrough in lists and red diagonal stripes in the treemap. Marking a folder marks its entire subtree.

Review A red pill appears in the sidebar showing count and total size. Click it to open the cleanup panel with all marked items plus auto-detected suggestions.

Delete Move to Trash for undoable cleanup, or Delete Permanently when you mean it. The queue resets on the next scan.

30.04 GB reclaimable

Auto-detected suggestions

App caches (~/Library/Caches)
Xcode DerivedData and preview data
iOS Simulators and device support files
Electron and browser caches
Adobe media caches
Trash contents
Log files (under Advanced)

07 / VS. THE MARKET LEADER

Faster than the fastest. Especially when it gets hard.

Five cold runs each, nothing else on screen, kernel cache flushed between every pass. The benchmark is the disk analyzer most reviewers call the fastest on macOS. On a normal drive, Tare edges ahead. Add millions of tiny files and the gap opens to 2×.

MacBook Pro M3 · 512 GB APFS SSD · median of 5 runs

Everyday drive · 2.5 million files · no cache whales

Tare

Market leader

~5% faster

Same drive, plus a 4-million-file zero-byte whale tree

Tare

Market leader

2.0× faster

Other real-world scans on the same machine

11 s

Your whole home folder 1.76 M files across 457 k directories

8.5 s

A million-file flat directory packed, one-level-deep

874 ms

Duplicates across 10 M files radix sort on packed keys

08 / COMPARE

The numbers you're used to.

Every operation in Tare has a `find`, `mdfind`, or shell-loop equivalent built into macOS. Here's how each one holds up on the same synthetic tree.

at 1,000,000 files

Find the 1,000 largest files

find | xargs stat | sort | head

19.7 s 9 ms 2,170×

Search for *.bin

find -name '*.bin'

8.0 s < 0.01 ms 25,000×

Find duplicates by name

find | awk | sort | uniq

8.6 s 209 ms 41×

Rename 10,000 files

find | while read; mv at 10,000 files

57.1 s 396 ms 144×

Walk the tree

find -ls at 100,000 files

351 ms 105 ms 3.3×

`mdfind` is the one native tool that looks fast, until you notice it doesn't index `/tmp`, scratch volumes, or external disks (exactly the paths a disk analyzer gets pointed at). On indexed paths, its results are the indexer's stale view, not the current tree. Tare's extension index is built from the actual scan, so it's current by construction.

09 / WHAT YOU CAN DO

Everything a power tool should let you do to a file.

Reveal in Finder Jump to any selection.

Quick Look Spacebar to preview.

Move to Trash Undoable, fast, batch-aware.

Permanent Delete ⌘⌫ when you mean it.

Batch Rename Patterns, sequences, regex.

Compress Zip via ditto, preserves metadata.

Finder Color Tags Seven colors, toggleable.

Copy Path To the pasteboard, ready to paste.

Favourites Pin folders to the sidebar.

CSV Export File Types or All Files.

10 / PRIVATE BY DESIGN

Your files stay on your Mac.

No telemetry

Tare doesn't phone home. The only network request it makes is to verify your license.

Direct download

Notarized, Developer ID-signed, distributed outside the App Store. Required for Full Disk Access.

Native Swift 6

SwiftUI + actor-isolated concurrency. No Electron, no web view, no runtime.

Free to try

Scan anything, explore every feature, decide if it's worth a license.

11 / FAQ

Questions

Which filesystems does Tare support?

APFS is what Tare is built around, and it's where every performance claim holds. HFS+ volumes work but report slightly different block accounting. Network shares (SMB, NFS, AFP) can be scanned, but the numbers depend on what the server chooses to expose. Cloud-only directories (Mobile Documents, CloudStorage) are skipped on purpose so placeholders don't distort the totals. More first-class filesystem support is on the way.

Do I have to grant Full Disk Access?

No, but it's strongly recommended. Without FDA, macOS throws a permission prompt for every protected folder (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, your Library), and even after clicking through all of them some files stay hidden. Grant FDA once from System Settings → Privacy & Security → Full Disk Access and every future scan is complete with no prompts.

Why macOS 26?

Tare is built natively on Swift 6's actor-isolated concurrency model and the latest SwiftUI APIs that ship with macOS 26 Tahoe. Supporting older macOS versions would mean a parallel UI stack and concurrency model for a small audience, so the minimum stays at 26 for now.

Why isn't Tare on the Mac App Store?

Mac App Store apps must run in Apple's sandbox, and the sandbox is fundamentally incompatible with Full Disk Access. A sandboxed disk analyzer can only see folders you hand it one at a time, which defeats the purpose. Tare ships as a directly distributed, Developer ID-signed, notarized app so it can actually scan your whole Mac.

How do APFS clones and snapshots affect the numbers?

Tare reports each clone's full allocated size, which matches what `du -h` shows and what gets freed when you delete one side. If clones exist, the sum of sizes can exceed the volume's actual used space. Time Machine snapshots are the usual reason deleted files don't immediately free disk. Tare doesn't yet break snapshot space out separately, but it's on the list.

Is any of my data sent anywhere?

No. No analytics, no crash telemetry, no file metadata uploaded anywhere. The only network request Tare makes is a periodic license verification to Nimikko's own server, and the payload is just your license key. Filesystems stay on your Mac.

How does the license work?

7-day free trial with every feature unlocked, no credit card. A license is a one-time $9.99 purchase, valid on up to 5 of your Macs, and keeps working offline after the first activation. Upgrades stay free within a major version.

Ready to reclaim some disk?

Download, grant Full Disk Access once, scan your Mac. Total time: under a minute.

Download Tare macOS 26 Tahoe or later · Apple Silicon + Intel · Free trial