TendTend 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.
Bring local health and change evidence together, then use focused tools to investigate. Availability depends on your edition, macOS version and permissions.
One A–F grade with trends and Smart Clean, plus a unified timeline of health changes, cleanups and automation outcomes.
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.
Private baselines explain changes and alternatives, while evidence-gated Early Warnings watch storage acceleration, drive metadata, backups, crash pressure, battery decline, and stale evidence.
In development. Investigate storage, battery, startup, app, or backup changes against local Timeline evidence. Choose everyday, Developer, or Creator shortcuts, track selected project folders, and protect workspaces from Tend cleanup.
Read-only Time Machine freshness, FileVault evidence, and structured APFS snapshot inventory with shared-block size uncertainty shown honestly.
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.
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.
Separate SHA-256 exact matches from bounded local perceptual photo pairs, with candid coverage limits, Quick Look, cancellation, and confirmed Trash actions.
Real battery health, sleep blockers, energy-hog ranking, and in-memory drain sessions that measure charge change and recurring high-energy apps over time.
Review size, architecture, last use, signing, provenance, and confirmed guarded Sparkle availability, then uninstall to Trash with recoverable leftovers.
Every app ranked by sensitive access — Camera, Mic, Screen Recording, Full Disk, Automation.
Live per-app bandwidth, plus every listening port — free a stuck dev server in one click.
Find every node_modules with progress and cancellation, clear Gradle/Maven/Docker caches, flush DNS, toggle hidden files, and review cleanup logs.
Drill through local, external, network and File Provider folders with cancellable size estimates, Quick Look, and visible permission or timeout gaps.
Review legacy startup items and modern macOS Background Task Management records with disposition, type, developer and team evidence.
Spotlight-indexed file search scoped to any folder, with native Quick Look and a cancellable deep-scan fallback.
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.
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.
Free Mac help · From LearnHubPlay
Useful checks with the tools already on your Mac. No app or account required.
Storage · 4 min read
Understand the System Data category and find reviewable storage without deleting unknown Library folders or local backups.
Read guide: System Data is large on Mac: investigate owners, not the label →Connectivity · 4 min read
Separate a Mac Wi-Fi problem from a router, website, VPN or internet outage with a short sequence of reversible checks.
Read guide: Mac connected to Wi-Fi but no internet: narrow down the cause →Features · 5 min read
Use Tend Timeline baselines to investigate storage, app, battery and backup changes while separating observations from possible explanations.
Read guide: How to use Tend Timeline to understand Mac changes →Connect a key from your billing-enabled Google Cloud project and Tend's assistant uses a disclosed status snapshot to help investigate Mac symptoms, recommend prioritized fixes, and write step-by-step plans. Ask "clean my caches" and it proposes the action; you approve it separately.
Illustrative example · Direct edition
Tend is free. Available tools depend on the edition; features marked in development are not yet released. No checkout, paid tier, subscription, advertising, or licence activation.
Local-first Mac health, cleanup, storage intelligence, automation, and optional bring-your-own-key AI.
Tend runs on your machine. It is free and has no accounts, analytics, telemetry, in-app advertising, or trackers. External requests happen only for features you choose, including Gemini setup/messages and supported update checks. Their previews and notices explain the data involved. Website hosting processes normal connection metadata; see the privacy policy.
Choose the edition that fits your work. Core analysis stays on your Mac.
The Mac App Store link is the verified public install route. The previous GitHub Releases and SHA256SUMS.txt links were unavailable when checked on October 19, 2026. Direct downloads will be linked after a public release and its verification details are available. Visit Tend Support or email admin@learnhubplay.nl.