DiskBuddy changelog
Back to DiskBuddy5 releases since September 2026 · The app's update feed, checked Oct 26, 2026
3.0.1Latest
- Cleanup shows its progress. While it clears your files, the footer shows what is being moved or deleted right now, how many items are done, how much space that covers, and a progress bar, instead of just a greyed-out button.
- The button now says "Deleting…" during a permanent delete, not "Moving to Trash…".
3.0.0Big update
- All-new design. A cleaner, calmer DiskBuddy: tabs along the top, the native system font, and light and dark themes throughout. Things you keep are grey; things you can clear are coloured, the same colour on every screen.
- Overview is one ring for your whole disk. A scan sweeps round it, then shows what is safe to clear, what is worth a look, and what you keep, with counts and each item's share of the disk. Ticked items drain out of the ring when they go to the Trash.
- New: Local AI models. Cleanup now finds models from Ollama, LM Studio, Hugging Face, Jan, GPT4All and Draw Things, plus big model files anywhere in your home folder, in a list of their own.
- Cleanup opens each group on its own screen with every file, a filter and sorting. Unstage everything at once, and staging thousands of items no longer slows the app down.
- Find has a new look and can add any file or folder it finds to Cleanup, even ones the last scan did not reach.
- Compress is cleaner, videos now actually get smaller (most were being kept as is), and compressed copies can go into a subfolder you name.
- Monitor shows CPU and GPU temperature, GPU use, fan speed, charger watts and per-app power, with processes and listening ports side by side.
- Activity shows what DiskBuddy has given back over time, a day-by-day history, and snapshot comparisons.
- New Settings window (⌘,): appearance, open at login, what Scan Mac scans, cleanup behaviour, Compress defaults, Find, Duplicates, updates and your licence.
- The menu bar panel is compact and shows more: live stats, the busiest processes, listening ports you can stop, and what you've freed.
- Applications has a search field, and the app has a new icon.
2.2.0
- New: Treemap in Space. See every folder at once as nested boxes sized by space, each with its name and size. Boxes are coloured by kind (code, build output, git, toolchains, caches, media and more), and anything that is safe to clear is hatched.
- Switch between Size, Files and Age, and choose how many folder levels to open inside each box.
- Hover a box for its path, size and last change; click to select, double-click to open, right-click for Reveal, Quick Look, Compress and Add to Cleanup. Press ⌘3 to jump straight to it.
2.1.1
- Safer cleanup: DiskBuddy now only offers things it can recognise for certain: caches in their known places, and build folders sitting next to the project that makes them. It never offers apps, developer tools, system files, cloud-synced folders or anything inside a git repository.
- Undo any cleanup: press Undo right after a cleanup, or open Activity later and choose Put back, and everything returns to where it was.
- Your own files are never ticked for you: items in Worth a look are ticked one by one.
- Cleaning now runs in the background with progress, so a big cleanup never freezes the window.
2.1.0
- Find: search every file and folder on your Mac as you type, including the hidden and system folders Spotlight skips.
- Compress: shrink videos and photos instead of deleting them, as MP4, MOV, GIF, WebM, JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF or HEIC. Your originals are kept.
- Updates inside the app: DiskBuddy now checks for new versions itself and installs them with one click.