Your Mac, clean, fast & healthy.
Tend is the local-first Mac manager. Tend Timeline explains what changed across apps, startup, storage, drives, battery and backups — then the focused tools help you review or reverse it safely.
Find & fix what macOS hides
The built-in tools show you a pie chart and stop there. Tend shows you the problems — and the button to fix each one.
Everything to manage your Mac
Health Score
One A–F grade with trends and Smart Clean, plus a unified timeline of health changes, cleanups and automation outcomes.
Maintenance Plan
Work one Health issue at a time with pre-action evidence, owning-tool navigation, safety labels and post-action verification. Tend advances only when the exact issue disappears.
Tend Timeline
Private baselines explain changes and alternatives, while evidence-gated Early Warnings watch storage acceleration, drive metadata, backups, crash pressure, battery decline, and stale evidence.
Resilience Center
Read-only Time Machine freshness, FileVault evidence, and structured APFS snapshot inventory with shared-block size uncertainty shown honestly.
Drive Health
Inspect SMART/NVMe evidence and bounded history, then optionally run a cancellable local filesystem benchmark with strict guardrails and path-free same-source/same-size trend evidence.
Smart Cleanup
Preview and undo cleanup, separate moved bytes from actual disk gain, then check allow-listed cache regrowth after 1, 7 and 30 days so short-lived cleaning is visible instead of celebrated.
Exact & Similar Review
Separate SHA-256 exact matches from bounded local perceptual photo pairs, with candid coverage limits, Quick Look, cancellation, and confirmed Trash actions.
Battery & Energy
Real battery health, sleep blockers, energy-hog ranking, and in-memory drain sessions that measure charge change and recurring high-energy apps over time.
App Intelligence
Review size, architecture, last use, signing, provenance, and confirmed guarded Sparkle availability, then uninstall to Trash with recoverable leftovers.
Privacy Audit
Every app ranked by sensitive access — Camera, Mic, Screen Recording, Full Disk, Automation.
Network & Ports
Live per-app bandwidth, plus every listening port — free a stuck dev server in one click.
Developer Tools
Find every node_modules with progress and cancellation, clear Gradle/Maven/Docker caches, flush DNS, toggle hidden files, and review cleanup logs.
Storage Explorer
Drill through local, external, network and File Provider folders with cancellable size estimates, Quick Look, and visible permission or timeout gaps.
Background Items
Review legacy startup items and modern macOS Background Task Management records with disposition, type, developer and team evidence.
Fast Search
Spotlight-indexed file search scoped to any folder, with native Quick Look and a cancellable deep-scan fallback.
On-device dictation
Turn speech into editable Assistant text using Apple's local recognizer. Tend saves no recording, uploads no audio, and sends nothing until you click Send.
Privacy Ledger
Audit voluntary GitHub, Gemini, and declared app-feed contacts locally using fixed labels. Prompts, responses, keys, paths, feed URLs and values are never retained in the ledger.
An assistant that actually knows your Mac
Connect a key from your billing-enabled Google Cloud project and Tend's assistant reads a disclosed live status snapshot to diagnose Mac problems, recommend prioritized fixes, and write step-by-step plans. Ask "clean my caches" and it proposes the action; you approve it separately.
- Uses your own paid Gemini project; EEA, UK, and Swiss API clients cannot use Google's free tier
- 18+ only; AI-generated output is labelled and may be inaccurate
- Key stored locally and encrypted with macOS Keychain when available
- Approve-to-run: the AI never acts without your tap
- Export or clear chat history anytime
1. Disk is 94% full — clear 9.5 GB of caches (Temp tab).
2. 2.8 GB of old node_modules in Developer.
3. Review verified and unknown sensitive permission states.
▶︎ Run Clean safe caches? Approve
Free, complete, no account
Every Tend feature is included at launch. No checkout, paid tier, subscription, advertising, or licence activation.
Tend for macOS
Local-first Mac health, cleanup, storage intelligence, automation, and optional bring-your-own-key AI.
- ✓ Health score & Overview
- ✓ Smart Clean, Duplicates & Large Files
- ✓ Storage, Apps, Battery & Resilience
- ✓ Automation & optional Gemini assistant
Private by design
Tend runs on your machine. It is free and has no accounts, analytics, telemetry, in-app advertising, or trackers. Network requests happen only when you send a Gemini message or manually check GitHub for a release; update checks contain no system-health data or local history.
Get Tend
Universal build for Apple Silicon & Intel · macOS 11+
↓ Download for macOSBuilds are published on GitHub Releases. Verify downloads with SHA256SUMS.txt. Current release artifacts are Developer ID signed and Apple notarized. Questions? Email admin@learnhubplay.nl.