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Native macOS product / 01

App
Monitor.

Understand what your Mac apps use, own, and need—without handing your activity to a hosted service.

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Platform
macOS 14+
Stack
SwiftUI · SQLite
Model
Local-first
License
MIT
APP MONITOR / OVERVIEWApp Monitor overview dashboard showing installed apps, usage, storage, and maintenance status
One native dashboard for the life of your Mac apps.

The product / 02

Maintenance decisions make more sense when the context stays together.

App Monitor sits between usage trackers, cleanup tools, update checkers, and uninstall helpers. Usage history shows whether an app still matters. Storage scans show what it owns. Health checks flag review-worthy risk. Update sources show what needs attention. Cleanup stays quarantine-first and reversible.

01

See what matters

A single inventory connects app usage with the space each app and its support files consume.

  • Foreground usage tracking
  • Daily trends, heatmaps, and timelines
  • App bundle and related-file storage scans
02

Understand app health

Warnings collect maintenance signals that are usually scattered across the system.

  • Code-signing and Gatekeeper checks
  • Crash and stale-bundle review
  • Large-file and permission-sensitive warnings
03

Maintain with context

Update and uninstall decisions stay connected to usage, storage, and the exact paths affected.

  • Mac App Store, Homebrew, Apple, and Sparkle updates
  • Guided uninstall plans
  • CSV exports for deeper analysis

Inside the app / 03

Each screen is sourced from the project’s public README and reflects the current native product.

Usage trends dashboard showing app activity analytics
01Usage trends
Activity timeline dashboard showing foreground app sessions
02Activity timeline
Warnings dashboard showing app health and review items
03Warnings
Updates dashboard combining available macOS app updates
04Updates
Cleanup suggestions dashboard with quarantine review
05Quarantine review
History dashboard showing reversible cleanup actions
06History

Local by design / 04

Review first. Keep changes reversible.

App Monitor stores its inventory, usage, scan, cleanup, update, and settings data locally in SQLite. It has no accounts, telemetry, or hosted backend. Cleanup candidates show their exact path before approval, move into App Monitor quarantine, and can be restored from History while the item remains available.

Try the beta / 05

Install with Homebrew.

The public beta supports macOS 14 and newer. Homebrew and mas are optional integrations for additional update sources.

Terminalbrew install --cask jcranokc/tap/app-monitor@beta
Source, releases, and documentationgithub.com/jcranokc/app-monitor