Pawly
A little cat to help tidy your Mac.
Pawly brings file previews, selective cleanup, app review and disk exploration into a friendly macOS interface. See what is taking up space, inspect the proposed changes, and choose what to clean.
Community preview · Apple Silicon · macOS 14+
Download for Mac — Apple SiliconFree and open source · v1.2.0 · Approximately 15 MB
This community build has not been notarized by Apple. macOS may block its first launch.
Published September 14, 2026 · Release notes
- Role
- Design · Engineering
- Year
- 2026
- Links
- Source ↗
- Stack
- Swift · SwiftUI · AppKit · SwiftTerm · Go · Shell
- Under the hood
- SwiftUI and AppKit provide native macOS lists for inspection and selection. Some final operations use the Mole engine’s interactive console inside the app, with keyboard input and on-screen controls. SwiftTerm connects the interface to the Go and Shell engine.
Highlights What we shipped.
- 01
Review before cleanup
Inspect caches, old logs and installer files, then select the items you want to remove.
- 02
Look beyond the obvious
Browse deeper cleanup categories, app-related files and project build artifacts.
- 03
Explore your storage
Navigate folders, search, sort by size and reveal files in Finder.
- 04
Choose maintenance tasks
Preview and select from 21 engine maintenance tasks.
- 05
Keep track of activity
View system health information and local operation history.
- 06
A familiar Mac interface
Native lists, English and Traditional Chinese, light and dark appearance, and keyboard or on-screen controls.
Install Pawly
- Download and extract the ZIP.
- Move Pawly.app to Applications.
- If macOS blocks opening it, consult Apple’s opening instructions.
This download supports Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 14 or newer. Intel Macs are not supported by this build.
SHA-256 checksums · Corresponding source archive
Review the recovery method
Quick cleanup and installer removal use Trash. Project-artifact cleanup and some deep-clean operations can permanently remove files or empty Trash. Review each operation’s confirmation screen before continuing.
Open source, with credit
Pawly is an independent community interface built on the open-source Mole CLI. It is distributed under GNU GPL v3 and is not the official Mole Mac app. Pawly is not endorsed by Mole.
Read the attribution and modification notices, download the corresponding source, or follow the build instructions.
This is a community preview. Published runtime checks cover Apple Silicon on macOS 26.5.2; other supported macOS versions have not been verified for this release. See the verification limits and user guide.