What Breeze does, and what it never touches.
A cleaner is only trustworthy if you know exactly what it will and won't delete. This page walks through every section of Breeze — what each tool scans, what it removes, where removed items go, and the paths it refuses to touch at all.
01The safety model
Everything in Breeze follows the same three steps, and nothing is skipped for convenience.
Scan, review, confirm
Every tool scans first and shows you the result. Nothing is removed until you confirm it. There is no "clean everything" button that acts before you've seen the list.
Removed means Trash
Items Breeze removes go to the Trash, not straight to deletion — so a mistake is recoverable until you empty it. The one exception is the Shredder, which overwrites by design and only ever on explicit confirmation.
02Smart Scan and the Health Score
One click that looks at everything and gives you a single number, with the components behind it.
The Health Score
An aggregate across disk, junk, startup items and protection. Like any average, one poor component on an otherwise healthy Mac barely moves it — so read the component bars beneath the score rather than the score alone.
All-volumes storage
Every mounted volume, not just the boot disk, so an external drive filling up is visible in the same place.
03Storage and Applications
Where your space went, and what removing an app actually leaves behind.
The storage map
An interactive, folder-by-folder map of what is using space. Right-click any entry to reveal it in Finder and judge for yourself before acting.
Applications
An inventory with sizes and bundle identifiers. Uninstalling removes the app and its leftovers — preferences, caches, containers, launch agents and receipts.
04Disk health
What your drive itself reports, on the Smart Scan screen.
Drive status
The drive's model, capacity, flash type and encryption, its controller status, and how much has been written to it since the last restart — read locally from the drive, with nothing to configure.
Wear figures
Detailed S.M.A.R.T. wear figures need system access that Apple's App Sandbox doesn't allow, so the Mac App Store edition shows the controller status instead. The direct download from this site can read them.
05Pro — deep cleanup
The tools that reclaim the most space, and the ones that warrant the most care.
Junk and sweeps
System junk, a Downloads sweep, Reclaim space for large and old files, and purgeable space held by local Time Machine snapshots.
Developer junk
Xcode DerivedData, device support archives and node_modules directories — usually the single largest recovery on a developer's Mac.
Duplicates and similar photos
Duplicates are matched by hash, so a match is byte-identical. Similar photos use a perceptual hash, which finds visually alike images that are not identical — review these rather than trusting them blindly.
Shredder
Secure overwrite-delete. The only tool that bypasses the Trash, and only on explicit confirmation.
06Pro — maintenance and insight
Housekeeping, and the apps you forgot you had.
Maintenance
Housekeeping tasks such as resetting Quick Look previews and rebuilding the Launch Services database. Tasks that need administrator rights are shown but unavailable in the Mac App Store edition, with a note saying why.
System data
A breakdown of the mysterious "System Data" bucket, cleaning only the parts macOS rebuilds on its own — caches, logs and diagnostic reports.
Leftovers and unused apps
Orphaned files from apps already deleted, including hidden ~/.name folders, plus an unused-apps detector based on real activity rather than Spotlight's last-opened date.
07Pro — privacy and automation
Things that run without being asked.
Breeze Guard
While Breeze is open, it tells you when a new startup item appears, and points out any that launch from an unusual place such as a temporary or hidden folder. It never removes anything on its own — you decide.
Privacy traces
Cleanup of privacy traces, plus an inventory of extensions, startup items, pending updates (Homebrew, Mac App Store, Sparkle, macOS) and app permissions for camera and microphone.
Auto-clean and history
Scheduled cleaning with low-space alerts and a weekly digest, and a history log with undo.
08Now go try it.
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