Mole 1.14.0 on Mac

Mole 1.14.0 brings a practical fix for anyone who grabs apps from developer sites: when an update can’t be installed, Mole reuses the download it already finished instead of fetching the whole thing again. It also spots newer builds of the same version and, before quitting a running app to install, asks first — then reopens it afterwards. Small touches, but they make the update flow feel less like a gamble.

Before you grab the mole torrent, check the basics. Mole needs macOS 14 or later, and it runs on both ARM and x86 64-bit Macs, so it covers the M-series and older Intel models. Full disk access is supported — that’s what lets it deep scan for junk that a shallow cleaner would miss. Scanning and cleaning happen locally by default, so your file list never leaves the machine.

What you actually get: it clears caches, logs and temporary files, shows the size of each item before you commit, and skips anything suspicious when there’s doubt. Interface languages include English, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Japanese, among others.

How mole compares with other Mac cleaners

Where some apps hide the file list behind a one-click button, Mole shows every cache, log and leftover with its size before anything happens. You decide what goes.

DaisyDisk, for example, focuses on visual disk analysis and nothing else. It gives you a beautiful treemap but no cache cleaning, no system maintenance, no hardware monitor. Mole has the treemap too, but it also handles the cleanup part. Mole stays a single window with no agents running in the menu bar unless you open it.

For someone who just wants to clear space and see what’s eating the disk without installing a whole platform, Mole hits a middle ground. It’s not as deep as specialised analysers and not as broad as the big suites, but it covers the daily stuff well enough.

Interactive treemap drills into nested folders

• The treemap is interactive. Hover over any block and you see the folder name and size. Click it and the view zooms in. You can drill down into nested directories without leaving the window.
• System maintenance runs as a single click. Instead of opening Terminal and remembering the commands, Mole runs the usual scripts — rotating logs, verifying permissions, flushing caches — and reports back when it’s done.
• No extra widget app needed.
• Startup items in the Dock get cleaned. You can remove icons that keep reappearing after a restart. Mole lists them, you pick, and they’re gone.
• App leftovers are shown by application. When you uninstall an app the old-fashioned way (drag to Trash), leftover plists and support files stay behind. Mole groups them by app name so you see exactly what belongs to what.

Steam library dominates the disk analysis treemap

I open Mole after a few weeks of not running any maintenance.

I click the “Disk Analysis” tab. The treemap fills the window with colour-coded blocks. The biggest one is my Steam library, which I already knew about, but I spot a 4 GB block from old iOS backups that I had forgotten. I make a mental note to remove those later.

Next I go to “Clean Up”. The scan takes a few seconds. I expand each category to check the list — nothing looks important. I check the boxes, click “Clean”, and confirm the action. The progress bar moves quickly.

Then I switch to “App Leftovers”. Three orphaned preference files from an app I removed months ago show up. I delete those too. Finally I run the system maintenance scripts. The whole process takes maybe five minutes.

For a quick weekly sweep or a deeper monthly clean, that’s exactly what I want.

If you’re on macOS 14 and want a cleaner that stays on your Mac, Mole 1.14.0 is a decent pick.

• Apps downloaded from websites can update inside Mole.
• A newer build of the same version is detected.
• The app asks before quitting a running app and reopens it after installation.

• macOS 14 or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel (x86 64-bit)
• Full disk access supported

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