# App uninstaller for Mac: Every app, with its real footprint and its real habits.

> Uninstall Mac apps completely from the notch: the app plus its caches, containers, preferences and logs. Plus a day of CPU and memory per app, updates and login items.

Dragging an app to the Trash leaves most of it behind: caches, containers, preferences and logs in your Library, sometimes gigabytes of them. Background agents keep running for apps you deleted months ago.

ctrlhq lists every app with its whole footprint, the bundle plus everything it left in ~/Library. Uninstall Completely quits the app, stops its agents and moves the lot to the Trash. Two more views show the apps with updates waiting and everything that starts when you log in.

## What you get

- **The whole footprint.** The app bundle plus Application Support, caches, containers, preferences, saved state, logs, web data and launch agents, found by the app's bundle ID.
- **Uninstall completely.** Quits the app, unloads its launch agents, then moves the app and every leftover to the Trash in one go.
- **A day of activity.** CPU time, peak memory, the busiest hour and disk reads and writes over the last 24 hours, counting every helper process the app runs.
- **Updates waiting.** Homebrew casks, each app's own Sparkle feed, and the App Store for apps that came from it. Update in one click or jump to the right place.
- **Startup, switched.** Login items and background agents, each with a switch. Turning an agent off stops it now and keeps it off after a restart.
- **Part of macOS stays.** Safari and the other apps that ship with macOS are marked and can't be removed.

## How it works

1. Open Disk in the notch and choose Apps.
2. Pick an app to see its footprint and its last 24 hours.
3. Press Uninstall, check what will go, and confirm.

## FAQ

### Is anything deleted for good?

No. The app and its leftovers go to the Trash, so you can put them back.

### How does ctrlhq know what an app has been doing?

Once a minute it reads the CPU, memory and disk counters macOS keeps for every process and adds up each app's share. The last day is kept on your Mac, and nothing is sent anywhere.

### What does checking for updates send?

Apps from the App Store are looked up by their bundle ID. Apps with their own update feed are checked against that feed. Homebrew runs locally. Nothing else about your Mac is sent.

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