Autopilot keeps your Mac roomy, every day.
Most Macs don’t fill up with one big thing. They silt up with caches, installers and Trash. Autopilot clears that out once a day, without you having to remember.
What Autopilot does
Once a day, when your Mac is idle, Roomy looks for files that rebuild themselves or that you already threw away, and removes them. It runs at low priority, so you won’t notice it while you work.
If your Mac was asleep or off when the tidy-up was due, Roomy catches up shortly after you start using it again.
What it removes on its own
You can switch any of these off in Roomy’s settings.
- Temporary files of apps that aren’t open
- Items that have been in the Trash for more than 30 days
- Installers (.dmg, .pkg) in Downloads older than a week, moved to the Trash first so you can still get them back
- Developer caches such as npm, Homebrew and Xcode DerivedData once they grow past 1 GB
What it never touches
Photos, videos, documents, your Desktop, music, Mail and Messages are never removed by Autopilot. Bigger decisions, like old iPhone backups or downloads you haven’t opened in months, show up as suggestions you approve yourself.
How you know it’s working
When a tidy-up frees a meaningful amount of space, a short notification tells you how much and what it was. The history in Roomy keeps a record of every run, and the menu bar shows your free space at a glance.
Turning it on
- Open Roomy and allow it to look after your home folder.
- Flip the Autopilot switch at the top of the window.
- Close the window. Roomy keeps working from the menu bar and starts quietly when you log in.