v2.0 — every fragment, placed

Free up disk space without the guesswork.

Tessera is a forensic disk inspector for macOS. It walks your home directory like a museum curator catalogues a collection — every byte placed, every category named, every reclaim traceable. Runs entirely on-device.

macOS 11+ (Big Sur and later) Sandboxed · Mac App Store distributed Privacy-first · zero network calls
~121 GB
iOS Simulator empire — aggregated
~70 ms
Cold start (was ~140 ms)
~90 MB
Peak RSS, 1M-file walk
19
Cleanup vectors shipped
Five core surfaces

A cleaner that earns your trust.

Five surfaces, one mental model. Quick Scan from the menu bar; Atlas for the wide view; Free Up for the one-click reclaim; Minibar for ambient awareness; vectors for the long tail.

Quick Scan

Top-3 reclaimable in ~90 ms for 50k files, straight from the menu bar. No wait, no modal, no drama.

Atlas

A 10-tile treemap that finally shows what's eating your disk. Drill down by category, vector, or path.

Free Up

One-click reclaim of your top-3 space hogs. Every reclaim writes a manifest to Trash with a 30-day undo.

Minibar

Menubar popover with live counters, Snooze AI, Local-Only toggle, and the Drop Zone for ad-hoc folder scans.

14 cleanup vectors

Docker, Xcode DerivedData, iOS Sim runtimes, npm globals, browser caches, MAS, Mail, photos, music, Node, sandbox/temp — each with a domain-specific safety guard.

Privacy-first

Zero network calls during a scan. The walker is an embedded Rust engine. BYOK AI keys stay in Keychain. Local-Only hard toggle.

"Tessera shows the iOS Simulator empire as a single tile.
No other cleaner aggregates it."

From the v2.0 press kit

How it works

Walk. Place. Reclaim. Undo.

01 — Walk

Embedded Rust engine

A rayon-parallel walker streams entries through an mpsc channel. 1M files in ~28 s on M1 Pro. Peak RSS ≤ 90 MB.

02 — Place

Atlas treemap

10-tile vivid palette aggregates the byte-spend by category. Drilldown by vector, path, or last-touched date.

03 — Reclaim

One-click Free Up

Top-3 reclaimable surfaced with per-vector safety guards: pgrep for Xcode, simctl for booted sims.

04 — Undo

30-day manifest

Every reclaim writes a manifest to .Trash. Restore with one click. Nothing leaves your machine without you naming it.

Ready to see what's eating your disk?

macOS 11+ · Mac App Store · Free tier ships every cleanup vector you need to start.

Download on the Mac App Store