# Mole for Mac

11 Hacker News commenters recommended Mole for Mac and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free command-line tool that frees disk space on a Mac by clearing caches and leftovers; people report large recoveries. Caveat: caches refill quickly after cleaning.

## Why people recommend it

- Frees up large amounts of disk space (2 comments): "Mole also found and deleted a bunch of stuff on my mac from Claude, Gemini, etc." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50135631)) "Mole freed up 80GB on my laptop the first time I ran it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50135799))
- Popular, well-regarded macOS maintenance tool (2 comments): "This seems to be a recent popular tool to handle this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47219532)) "Mole for Mac is a very nice system maintenance app" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306488))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [AppCleaner](https://hackerapproved.com/p/appcleaner.md): 6 recommend
- [Pearcleaner](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pearcleaner.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Mole for Mac", https://hackerapproved.com/p/mole/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).