Remove the app. And what it left behind.

You see every file first, with its size and location, and untick anything you want to keep. Nothing moves until you confirm. Removed files go to the Trash, and Undo restores your most recent removal; for older ones, drag them back out of the Trash. The app's privacy permissions are reset unless you untick that row, and a reset can't be undone. Two choices are permanent, and the app says so first: Uninstall with Homebrew, and deleting an app from the Trash.

Yes, completely and permanently. Every feature is included: uninstalling one app or several at once, the Mac-wide sweep (audio plug-ins, daemons, kernel extensions and helpers), an app's hidden folders such as ~/.ollama, leftovers from apps you've deleted, Reset, Undo, the Startup tab, the Genuine? ticks, the Trash watcher, Homebrew-aware uninstalls, resetting an app's privacy permissions, and unlimited Explain, “What is this app?” and uninstall summaries. No account, no ads, no time limit. If you'd like to help, there's an optional Support us link; it unlocks nothing. Full guide.

There isn't one. We make Pangalin Space Manager, a paid storage app, and Pangalin Uninstaller is our free tool: no ads, no data collection, no locked features. If it helps you, you can chip in through Support us, or try Pangalin Space Manager.

Click Undo in the status line to restore your most recent removal. For anything older, open the Trash in Finder and drag what you need back to where it was (the activity log in ~/Library/Application Support/Pangalin Uninstaller lists where each file came from). Finder's Put Back isn't offered for files an app moves to the Trash. Once the Trash has been emptied, files can only be recovered from a backup such as Time Machine. Full guide.

A Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) running macOS 13 Ventura or later. To check, choose Apple menu › About This Mac: it lists a “Chip” such as Apple M1.

The first time you uninstall, macOS asks you to allow App Management, so the app can move other apps to the Trash. Full Disk Access is optional: it lets the scan see protected folders and find removed apps in the Trash that still have background items. Anything it can't remove with normal access, it tells you about instead. Full guide.

Uninstalling an ordinary app never needs it. Items macOS owns, such as App Store and installer apps, system startup items and leftovers in system folders, go through a small background helper. Setup offers to add it (macOS asks you once, and Cancel skips it). After that, macOS asks for your approval, password or Touch ID, in its own window, and one approval covers your removals and Undo for the next 5 minutes, for Pangalin Uninstaller only. The app never sees or stores your password.

Explain gives a plain-English answer about a leftover you select, and “What is this app?” does the same for an app. It's written on your Mac by Apple Intelligence, so nothing is sent to us or anyone else. Answers can be imperfect, so treat them as a guide. It needs Apple silicon, macOS 26 and Apple Intelligence turned on; where it can't run, the button doesn't appear. It's free and unlimited, and it can also summarise what an uninstall will remove.

Only when you choose. Update checks run when you turn them on in Settings › Updates (they're off by default), or choose Check Now; a check reads two small signed files hosted on GitHub and sends nothing about you or your Mac. Ask Apple too in the Genuine? check asks Apple's servers whether an app's certificate or notarisation was revoked; Apple receives details that identify the app's signature, not your files. Uninstall with Homebrew runs Homebrew's own program, which may go online. Links such as Support us open in your browser. Full guide.

macOS itself and Apple's own apps: they're never offered for removal, and neither is data that an app you still have uses. It's built for apps you installed yourself, including ones from the App Store or an installer package, which macOS asks you to approve. Protected system folders are refused.

Each app is checked on your Mac, in the background: gold means signed by its known developer (from a built-in list), green means signed and notarised, amber means unsigned or a broken signature, and red means a possible fake, so don't open it. Click ⓘ by the app count for the key. The check doesn't go online unless you choose Ask Apple too, and a tick never means an app is safe, only who signed it. Full guide.

When you uninstall an app, Pangalin Uninstaller asks macOS to reset the permissions you gave it, such as Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photos, Files & Folders and Automation (untick the row to keep them). macOS doesn't show which ones an app had, and a reset can't be undone; the app simply asks again if you reinstall it. Full Disk Access, Accessibility, Screen Recording, Input Monitoring and App Management are system-wide: macOS doesn't let other apps reset them, so check them in Privacy & Security, which it opens for you. Full guide.

Choose Pangalin Uninstaller › Uninstall Pangalin Uninstaller…. It removes the background helper if you added it, along with the approval rule it set up, clears the app's own data and moves the app to the Trash. It normally needs no password. Dragging the app to the Trash on its own leaves the helper installed, so use the menu item. Full guide.

For a Homebrew app, the review offers Uninstall with Homebrew: it shows the brew uninstall --cask command first and runs it as you, so Homebrew stays in sync. Homebrew deletes the app itself, so Undo can't bring it back; the leftovers you tick still go to the Trash. App Store and installer-package apps can also be removed here: they're owned by the system, so macOS asks for your approval (password or Touch ID), and one approval covers 5 minutes.

Yes. Email hello@pangalin.com within 14 days and we'll refund a support payment in full. Polar, which handles our payments, returns it to your original payment method. See our Refund Policy.

No. Pangalin doesn't sell support services, and we don't offer phone or remote-access support. The app shows only what it measured on your Mac, with no alarms, “problems found” warnings or pressure to buy. If you need help, email us: it's free, and a person who makes the app replies.

Pangalin Uninstaller does one job, removing apps and their leftovers. It's completely free. Pangalin Space Manager is our full storage suite: it shows where your space went and cleans, moves or compresses it, with the first 5 GB free and a $25 yearly licence after that.

Email hello@pangalin.com with your macOS version, the app you were removing and what happened. A person who works on the app will reply.