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The Mac version catches up with Windows: every page Windows has now has a Mac
counterpart, tested on an Apple silicon Mac.
Added
- macOS: Hardware monitor. Temperatures, loads, clocks and power for Apple
silicon's performance and efficiency cores and GPU, the Neural Engine and
memory, fan speeds and whole-system power, drive temperature and SSD wear,
memory, network and battery, all without an administrator password.
heft --sensorsworks on macOS too. - macOS: Login items page, the counterpart of Startup. Login items and launch
agents and daemons, with launchd's own on/off switch, removal with a backup,
who signed each program, and helpers inside apps for reference. - macOS: Apps page, the counterpart of Programs. Installed apps with measured
sizes, publisher, date added and last opened. Uninstalls through the app's
own uninstaller, Homebrew or the Trash, then checks~/Libraryand
/Libraryfor leftovers. Updates through Homebrew, one app or all of them,
in a Terminal window. - macOS: Broken items page, the counterpart of the registry check. Launch
agents, login items, command-line links, Open With entries and package
receipts that point at apps and files that no longer exist, with a backup
before every change and a Backups list that restores them. - macOS: free space alerts can keep watching from the menu bar after the
window is closed, and start at login (a launch agent in
~/Library/LaunchAgents). The menu shows each drive's free space.
Notifications go through Notification Center when Heft runs from Heft.app,
and clicking one opens Heft.heft --traystarts hidden in the menu bar. - macOS: quick rescans and View › Update automatically, through FSEvents:
after a scan of a local disk, Rescan only lists the folders that changed,
and automatic updates start as soon as macOS reports a change.
heft --check-refreshworks on macOS and gains--wait. - macOS: Compress and Uncompress folders on APFS and HFS+, with compression
suggestions for apps and Steam games. Each file is checked against the
original before it's swapped in. Apps installed for all users (App Store,
installer packages) can be included after the administrator password. - macOS: the Removed tab can put items back from the Trash. Heft now moves
things to the Trash itself instead of asking Finder, so it no longer needs
permission to control Finder. - macOS: suggestions for old macOS installers, iPhone and iPad software
downloads and backups, Time Machine's local snapshots, the hibernation image,
Docker Desktop's disk, Messages attachments, Xcode archives, Mail downloads
and Photos libraries (explained, with the right place to deal with each),
and warnings for more Mac locations (Mail, Messages, music libraries,
iCloud and other cloud folders, app bundles). - macOS Cleaner: temporary files, Quick Look thumbnails, Metal shader caches,
iPhone and iPad updates, system logs (administrator password), Docker build
cache, and privacy rules for recent items, Finder's recent folders, the
clipboard and the DNS cache. Teams, Epic Games Launcher, Java, Adobe, NuGet,
Deno and Composer caches. Weekly cleaning with a launch agent, and shortcuts
to Storage settings and to thinning Time Machine's local snapshots. - Cleaner on macOS and Linux: cookies, history, form history and last-session
rules for Chromium browsers and Firefox, as on Windows. - macOS Cleaner: Safari's cookies, history and last session, and new Teams'
cache. macOS protects them, so they're only listed when Heft has Full Disk
Access. Safari's history rule warns that iCloud syncs it back. - macOS: Remove download for iCloud Drive files and folders, in the
right-click menu and as a suggestion for big files that haven't changed in
a month. The files stay in iCloud and download again when opened, as with
Finder's Remove Download. Only files iCloud has finished syncing are
touched. - macOS Apps: Leftovers of deleted apps. Data containers and files in
~/Libraryfrom apps that are no longer installed anywhere on the Mac,
found by bundle id only and checked against every app, extension and
helper macOS knows. Nothing is ticked by default. heft --sensors --reportadds the Mac's model, chip and macOS version and
the raw SMC and HID sensor data, for fixing readings on Macs Heft hasn't
been tested on. The bug report form asks for it.- macOS: menus at the top of the screen. Heft (About, Settings… ⌘,), File
(Scan Folder… ⌘O, Rescan ⌘R, Close Window), View (each page with ⌘1 to
⌘6, Dark Mode, Enter Full Screen), Window and Help. - Settings: appearance, free space alerts and starting at login, and on
macOS moving to the Trash through Finder, update checks and Full Disk
Access. - macOS: Finder's Put Back for what Heft moves to the Trash, when Settings ›
Move items to the Trash through Finder is on (macOS asks once to let Heft
control Finder). Heft's own Removed tab puts items back either way. - macOS Apps: App Store updates through
maswhen it's installed. Apps with
their own updater (Sparkle, Squirrel) say "updates itself" and have Open to
update; only if it's turned on in Settings, Heft asks Sparkle apps' update
feeds for newer versions. - macOS Login items: Show all background items lists everything macOS tracks
in Login Items & Extensions (sfltool dumpbtm, after the administrator
password), with whether each is allowed in the background. - macOS Broken items: Dock icons for apps and folders that no longer exist,
with a backup of each icon. Apps that were only moved don't count, since
the Dock follows them. - macOS: purgeable space. The start screen and the status bar show how much
more macOS can free by itself (local Time Machine snapshots, downloaded
iCloud files, caches), which Finder counts as available, so the two
figures no longer seem to disagree. - macOS: a note on the start screen explains what Heft can't see without Full
Disk Access, with a button to the right settings page. It goes away once
access is given, or when dismissed. - macOS: the start screen links to Login items and Apps as well as the
Cleaner. - A button in the top-right corner switches between light and dark mode: a
moon in light mode, a sun in dark mode. Heft remembers the choice; until
it's used, Heft follows the system theme.
Changed
- Suggestions no longer pre-select anything that carries a warning.
- Cleaner: files a program has open are skipped on macOS and Linux too, and
everything that needs a password is done after one prompt per clean
(pkexecon Linux, the administrator prompt on macOS). - Disk images, installer packages and
.ipswfiles are skipped when
compressing;.hdsandDocker.rawcount as virtual disks. - macOS: quick rescans no longer keep a second copy of the scan in memory,
roughly halving Heft's memory use after scanning a whole disk. - macOS Apps: launch agents and daemons moved to the Trash with an app's
leftovers are stopped too, instead of running until the next restart.
Daemons are stopped under the same password prompt as the move.
Fixed
- macOS Apps: looking for an app's leftovers could make macOS ask to let Heft
access data from other apps. Without Full Disk Access, other apps' data
containers are now listed without looking inside them or measuring them. - macOS: Start at login and weekly cleaning stopped working when Heft.app was
moved. Heft now points them at its new place when it's next opened. - macOS: the startup disk wasn't listed on the start screen or in Scan drive,
and free space alerts watched no drive at all, on macOS 11 and later
(the system volume is mounted from a snapshot). - A Unity project's
Libraryfolder was flagged as the Mac's Library folder.
Downloads
| System | File |
|---|---|
| Windows 10 and 11 (x64) | heft-1.1.0-windows-x86_64.zip |
| macOS 11 and later (Apple Silicon and Intel) | heft-1.1.0-macos-universal.zip |
| Linux (x86_64) | heft-1.1.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz |
Heft.app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. The Windows download isn't signed yet, so Windows warns the first time you open Heft. The install instructions explain how to open it anyway and how to check that a download was built from this repository.