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title: "Tidy Mac vs PureMac: free cleaner or explained cleanup?"
description: "PureMac is a free, open-source SwiftUI Mac cleaner. Tidy Mac explains what’s inside System Data, sorts junk by safety, and costs $9.99 once."
url: https://tidymac.space/compare/tidymac-vs-puremac/
updated: 2026-10-16
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# Tidy Mac vs PureMac

PureMac is a free, open-source SwiftUI Mac cleaner. Tidy Mac explains what’s inside System Data, sorts junk by safety, and costs $9.99 once.

Updated October 2, 2026By the Tidy Mac team

The short version

Pick PureMac if you want a free, open-source cleaner with scheduled cache cleaning and you’re happy deciding what each cache is. Pick Tidy Mac if you want System Data split into named parts with plain explanations, every item marked Safe to clear, Worth a look or Kept, a Space Map of your disk, and Trash-first cleaning with undo. It’s $9.99 once, for two Macs.

## Side by side

Feature

Tidy Mac

PureMac

Plain-English explanation of System Data

Yes

Not a focus

Junk sorted by how safe it is to clear

Yes

No

Moves to the Trash first, with undo

Yes

See their docs

Disk map

Yes, Space Map (treemap and sunburst)

No

Scheduled automatic cleaning

No, you approve each clean

Yes

AI tools and developer caches named

Yes (Claude, Codex, Cursor, Xcode, Docker…)

Xcode and Homebrew caches

Price model

$9.99 once, 2 Macs

Free (open source)

Based on [PureMac’s public website](https://github.com/momenbasel/PureMac), October 2026. Prices and features change; [tell us](mailto:hello@tidymac.space) if something is out of date.

## Who should pick which

### Pick PureMac if…

-   You want a free, open-source app you can build yourself
-   You mainly want caches cleared on a schedule
-   You already know which caches you can lose

### Pick Tidy Mac if…

-   You want to know what “System Data: 150 GB” actually is
-   You want a safety verdict on each item, not just a list of caches
-   You want a disk map, an uninstaller and Trash-first undo in one app

## About PureMac

PureMac is a free, open-source macOS cleaner on GitHub, written in SwiftUI, positioned as a CleanMyMac alternative with no telemetry. It cleans system, Xcode and Homebrew caches and can clean on a schedule.

![](/img/brand/tidy-128.png)

### Get Tidy Mac

See what fills your Mac, System Data included. $9.99 once, on two Macs, with everything going to the Trash first. Use both tools if you like.

[Download](/download/TidyMac.dmg) [Buy for $9.99 once](/buy/)

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**Tidy Mac**

See this on your own Mac in under a minute. $9.99 once, 2 Macs.

[Download](/download/TidyMac.dmg)