Broomkit

I built BroomKit because I was frustrated with the Mac cleaner market.

Every time I ran out of disk space on my Mac, the options were the same. Pay for a subscription just to see what was eating my storage. Trust a tool that hides file paths behind a friendly progress bar. Or use a general-purpose cleaner that completely ignores the gigabytes of developer clutter sitting in my home folder.

I'm a developer. My disk fills up with node_modules trees, pnpm stores, pip caches, Xcode DerivedData, old simulators, and Docker disk images. Most cleaners don't even know these exist. The ones that do want a monthly fee to tell me about them.

So I built BroomKit to work the way I think a cleaner should work.

Scan everything, show everything, charge nothing for looking. The free version gives you a full disk scan across 16 categories, a treemap visualisation of your disk, a large and old file finder, and the ability to browse every single path before making any decisions. No account. No credit card. No trial countdown.

When you're ready to actually clean up, a one-time licence unlocks the Reclaim feature and the App Uninstaller. One payment, not a subscription. Starting at $34.95 for one Mac.

Safety was a core design decision from day one. BroomKit never directly deletes anything. Every removal goes to the Trash first, so you can recover anything until you empty it. Inferred items start unchecked. Every file is shown with its full path. The app never asks for your administrator password and never installs a privileged helper.

The App Uninstaller matches leftovers by exact bundle identifier, not partial name matching. That matters because partial matching is how other tools accidentally remove files belonging to a different app from the same vendor.

Developer machines get special attention. BroomKit scans nested node_modules folders, pnpm stores, pip caches, Xcode simulators, DerivedData, and Docker-related data. For Docker disk images where deletion isn't the right approach, it shows the reclaim command instead.

Nothing leaves your Mac. The entire scan runs on-device. No file paths, no scan results, no telemetry transmitted anywhere. The app is notarized by Apple and Developer ID signed, and runs natively on macOS 14 and later on both Apple Silicon and Intel.

BroomKit exists because I wanted a Mac cleaner I could actually trust. One that respects my time, my money, and my data. If that sounds like what you've been looking for, give the free scan a try at broomkit.com.