Dragging an app to the Trash leaves its settings, caches and logs behind in your Library folder. Uninstall finds those leftovers and removes them together with the app.
Find the app
Your apps are listed largest first, with their size and when you last opened them: Open now, Opened today, Opened 3 days ago and so on. Apps you haven't opened in 90 days or more say Unused since and a month, which makes good candidates easy to spot.
Type in Search apps to find one by name. ⌘F jumps to the search field. Refresh reloads the list after you install or remove something.
See what gets removed
Click an app to see everything Crumb found for it, each with its full path and size:
| Item | What it is |
|---|---|
| The app | The app itself. It always goes, so its box can't be unticked. |
| Application Support | The app's settings and data |
| Caches | Files the app makes again if you reinstall it |
| Logs | Diagnostic records |
| Preferences | The app's settings file |
| Container | A sandboxed app's data |
| Saved window state | Where its windows were |
| Web storage, WebKit data, Cookies | What the app's built-in web pages stored |
| Launch agent | What starts it in the background |
Untick anything you want to keep. If you might reinstall the app and want your settings back, untick Application Support, Preferences and Container.
Uninstall
- Quit the app if it's open. Crumb reminds you if it is, because an open app can write some of its files again.
- Click Uninstall and the app's name.
- Crumb asks once more, naming how much space it will free. Click Uninstall.
Everything you left ticked is deleted for good, not moved to the Trash. Crumb then shows how much space came back, and lists anything macOS didn't allow it to remove, with the reason. Click Back to apps to carry on.
Anyone can see what an app leaves behind. Removing apps is part of Crumb Pro.
