Changelog

Roomy is now Sparebyte. Same app, new name: your settings, scan history and Undo carry over, and updates keep arriving on their own.

The first full build of the app, for private beta testers.

A new window with a sidebar

• Overview, Cleanup, Storage, Apps, Large files and Explore disk, one click apart.
• The toolbar shows when you last scanned, with a button to scan again.

Overview

• A disk bar with a health label, and “You can safely get back” with the biggest findings.
• Tiles for what grew this week (Pro), your biggest files and apps you don’t use.
• On first launch, one card explains Full Disk Access. Choose “Not now” and a quiet reminder stays in the sidebar.

Cleanup

• Filter by All, Safe or Review, search findings, and sort by size or name.
• When nothing safe is left, Cleanup says so and offers Undo instead of showing an empty list.
• On Free, a note shows how to clean by hand, and Clean opens the Pro sheet with your own number.

Storage and System Data

• Apple’s categories, but you can open each one. Documents is grouped by kind, plus code projects.
• System Data is split into named pieces, each with what you can do about it.
• Space macOS keeps to itself is shown as “Can’t be explained”, with why.

Large files and Explore disk

• Your biggest files with when you last opened them, filters, Quick Look and Reveal in Finder.
• Move files to the Trash (Pro), with a confirm sheet and a 7-day Undo that survives relaunch.
• A zoomable sunburst map with a synced folder list, including hidden folders. A Whole disk view with Full Disk Access.
• Only items that can actually be moved get a checkbox.

Apps

• The true size of every app: the app plus the data it keeps in your Library.
• Tabs for apps not used in 90+ days and for leftovers from apps you already deleted.
• The uninstaller moves the app and its data to the Trash, with one Undo for both. Clear an app’s caches on their own.

Menu bar, notifications and settings

• Free space in the menu bar, with a small panel. Closing the window keeps Sparebyte in the menu bar if you like.
• Launch at login starts Sparebyte in the menu bar only, without scanning.
• Notifications (Pro): low disk once per crossing, leftovers after you trash an app, and an optional weekly space check, off by default.
• Settings for launch at login, menu bar mode, the idle-project threshold, excluded folders and alerts.
• A gentle daily refresh, only on power while you’re away from the Mac.

Beta access

• Personal beta keys that turn on Pro for up to 2 Macs.
• A one-time question about sharing anonymous usage and crash reports, changeable in Settings.
• Send Feedback from the toolbar or Settings.
• Beta builds stop working on a set date.

Under the hood

• Scans read around 145,000 files a second while staying under 60 MB of memory in our tests.
• Every delete passes a hard block list: system folders, Keychains, Mail, Messages, Photos and git repositories are never touched.

Known limits are listed on the support page.