Searoom support

Searoom never deletes files. Everything you clean up goes to the Trash and is listed under Cleaned Up, where Put Back returns it to where it was, until you empty the Trash. Searoom never cleans up on its own and shows you first what goes to the Trash. A fixed block list keeps system folders, iCloud Drive, the keychains and your Mail out of every plan; it is checked when the plan is made and again right before each move. Two actions cannot use the Trash: deleting local Time Machine snapshots and removing unavailable simulators. Searoom says so and asks before either.

It is what macOS does not assign to another category in System Settings › General › Storage: caches, logs, local Time Machine snapshots, iPhone backups, developer data, virtual memory and macOS itself. Searoom breaks it down item by item and says “not disclosed” where macOS does not tell a size. More about System Data.

Pearcleaner is a free, open source app for removing apps with their leftovers. If that is all you need, it may well be enough. Searoom covers more ground: it explains every storage item including System Data, cleans caches, logs and old installers with a journal you can undo, keeps your apps updated, and has a page for developer data. Try it for 14 days and decide.

macOS protects folders like Mail, Messages, the Trash and parts of the Library. Without Full Disk Access, Searoom cannot measure them or find leftovers there, and says so. With it, Searoom reads sizes and names, never file contents. Full Disk Access takes effect after Searoom restarts; the setup offers that.

Searoom stays free for good with the overview, every explanation, cleaning caches, logs, the Trash and old installers, and removing apps with their leftovers. Pro adds app updates, the Developer page, leftovers of apps already gone, free space in the menu bar and the weekly report, for €29 once, on 2 Macs, with all 1.x updates. Putting things back from Cleaned Up always works.

Only this: Homebrew's public cask list is downloaded, the App Store lookup gets the identifiers of your App Store apps, each app's own update feed is asked at its developer, Dodo Payments checks your license key (key and Mac name), and this website delivers Searoom's own updates. The first three only during the trial and with Pro. No file names, no file contents, no usage data. Details in the privacy policy.

Searoom frees disk space and keeps your apps up to date. It does not promise speed, and it has no “free up RAM” or “optimize” button, because macOS manages memory itself.

That depends on your Mac. Searoom shows what each item takes before you clean up. On APFS, space is usually freed only once the Trash is emptied, so Searoom measures the gain after that and shows the measured number. Space macOS frees on its own (“purgeable”) is shown separately and never counted as Searoom's work.

Choose Help › Copy Diagnostics. Searoom copies versions, states and counts to the clipboard, always in English: app and macOS version, whether Full Disk Access is on, the license state, when it last measured and how many apps and updates it found. It contains no paths, no file or app names and no license key. Paste it into your email to [email protected], or use Help › Email Support.

Searoom replaces an app only when the new version has the same identifier and team ID, its signature checks out with codesign, Gatekeeper accepts it and, where the app has a key for it, the EdDSA signature is valid. If one of these does not match, Searoom stops, leaves the installed app as it is and tells you which check failed. For Homebrew apps it names the brew command to run in Terminal to see why. App Store apps are always updated by the App Store.

Only for single actions that need it, each with its own sentence: deleting local Time Machine snapshots, moving leftovers outside your home folder to the Trash (for example in /Library/LaunchDaemons), and putting the new version of an app into Applications when your account cannot write there.

One license works on 2 Macs at a time. For a third Mac, choose Settings › License › Remove from This Mac on one of them first, then activate the key on the new one.

macOS does not tell how much space a local snapshot takes, and a guess would not be honest. Searoom shows the count and the dates. More about local snapshots.

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