Tidy Up for Mac

Tidy Up for Mac is the duplicate finder and disk tidiness utility for expert users. It's the only fully-featured duplicate remover available on the market and allows you to efficiently clean your computer from the junk it built-up.

Tidy Up 6 is a cutting-edge, highly efficient, and fully customizable app designed to streamline file organization like never before.

Here are some of its standout features:

Optimized Performance: Runs natively on both Apple Silicon and Intel processors, with full support for Light and Dark mode appearances.

Enhanced Search Capabilities: Easily locate files within Lightroom, Photos, Music, Mail, and Contacts.

Hard Link Management: Choose to search for hard links, exclude them, or replace duplicate items with hard links for optimized storage.

Advanced Unique Item Search: Now more powerful than ever, allowing you to use multiple criteria to identify and manage unique files with no duplicates.

Administrator-Level Cleanup: Gain full control over system-wide file management by enabling the privileged tool—perfect for clearing out old Time Machine backups.

Smart Result Organization: Automatically categorizes found items by file type (music, images, PDFs, folders, etc.), with full customization options to suit your needs. The results are neatly displayed using tab separation, with each tab featuring smart filters, source-based grouping, grid or list views, and more.

Highlights

Simple Mode
Tidy Up comes with a search mode called Simple Mode, which includes more than 80 pre-defined smart searches.

Advanced Mode
It is the most customized method offered on the market. It allows you to find only the needed item kinds by refining in depth the criteria to use when performing the search.

Result Overview
The app is fast and accurate. It doesn't index the scanned volumes, so you don't waste additional precious space.

The removing view has many features that include:

• Remove the marked, unmarked or all items;
• Replace the removed files with hard links, symbolic links or aliases;
• Move or copy the items to a specific location instead of deleting them.

Tidy Up is completely re-engineered, modern, efficient and totally customizable. Below are just a few of the major new features.

• Supports Lightroom: it is now possible to search and collect duplicates directly in the Lightroom library.
• Multiple libraries support: capability to search in the supported apps (Lightroom, Photos, iTunes, Mail, Aperture and iPhoto) by comparing multiple libraries of the same app with multiple libraries of different apps of the same kind (for example 2 Photos libraries and 3 Lightroom libraries).
• Added the support to hard links: search for hard links or exclude them from the search and replace the found items with hard links.
• Search for unique items gains strength: it’s now possible to use multiple criteria to search for unique items (items that have no duplicates).
• Possibility to handle the found items at the administrator level: just allow the installation of the privileged tool and do the cleaning job. This is particularly useful to clean up old Time Machine backups.
• New, completely redesigned interface, easy to use and powerful.

System Requirements

macOS 11.0 or greater

Alternatives

CleanMyMac – All-in-one Mac cleaner and optimizer.

MacKeeper – Security, cleaning, and performance tools.

MacPilot – Advanced system tweaks and customization.

Combo Cleaner for Mac – Antivirus and disk cleaner.

MacCleanse – Deep junk removal and privacy protection.

Avast Cleanup for Mac – Automated junk and cache cleaner.
    
Pricing

Starting from $29.99
 
Upgrade from an older Tidy Up is available for $23.99

PROS

• Powerful Duplicate Finder – Quickly locates duplicate files.
• Customizable Search – Advanced filters for precise results.
• Fast Scanning Speed – Efficient performance on large drives.
• Multiple Cleanup Modes – Offers various deletion options.
• Supports External Drives – Scans USB and network storage.

CONS

• Learning Curve – Complex interface for beginners.
• Expensive – Higher price than some competitors.
• No Free Version – Only a trial with limitations.
• Occasional False Positives – May flag non-duplicates.
• Limited UI Modernization – Slightly outdated interface.

Note: Only 10 found items can be managed. Requires 64-bit processor.