Your Mac, sparkling again.

Yes. Glint is completely free: no paid tier, no subscription, no cap on how much you can clean and no account. Download the DMG and use every feature.

Glint refuses to delete protected locations: system folders such as /System, /usr and the keychains, and your top-level folders such as Documents, Desktop, Pictures and ~/Library itself. Caches that apps rebuild on their own are deleted permanently; everything else goes to Quarantine first and can be restored for 7 days by default (you can change this in Settings).

No. Glint makes no network requests of its own: no analytics, no crash reporting, no account, no uploads. Scanning, photo comparison and text recognition all run on your Mac. It only opens something online when you click it yourself, such as a photo's location in Apple Maps. Details are in the privacy note.

Yes, for everything that went to Quarantine. Open Quarantine & History, select the items and restore them to where they were, until the retention period ends. Rebuildable caches are deleted for good, but apps recreate them when they need them.

Any Mac running macOS 14 Sonoma or later, with Apple Silicon or an Intel processor. There's one universal download for both.

macOS hides folders like Mail, Safari data and other apps' containers from every app until you allow it. Without Full Disk Access Glint still works, but it can't see those places, so some caches, browser data and sensitive files are missed. The access is used only to scan and clean on your Mac, and you can turn it off at any time in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Full Disk Access.

A few jobs need root: freeing RAM, flushing DNS, reindexing Spotlight, scanning a raw disk for File Recovery and moving admin-owned items to Quarantine. You can install Glint's small privileged helper in Settings and approve it once in System Settings › General › Login Items; after that these jobs run without a password prompt each time. The helper only accepts requests from Glint signed by the same developer, checks every request again and runs a fixed set of operations. If you skip it, Glint uses the standard macOS password prompt instead.

Yes. Glint is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens normally after you drag it into Applications.

Yes. Glint checks for running apps whose files aren't safe to delete while they're in use. While Docker Desktop runs, its VM files, logs and sockets are skipped and Glint tells you why; quit Docker and scan again to include them. Browser Privacy asks to quit an open browser before cleaning it.

Turkish and English. Glint follows your Mac's language, and you can switch at any time from Settings or the sidebar.