Sift audits your Applications folder — what each app is, whether it earns its place, and what it's quietly costing you in disk, updates, and attention.
Five ways Sift turns a cluttered Applications folder into a decision you can make in an afternoon.
Half the apps on a developer's Mac arrived as a dependency of a dependency. Sift identifies each one — category, developer, bundle ID — and writes a one-paragraph explanation you'd actually send a friend. No more googling com.something.helper at midnight.
Ollama is a local LLM runtime that lets you run open-source language models on your own machine, popular with developers building or testing AI workflows. Currently running alongside Claude and Goose.
Every app is rated 1–5 against how you actually work — what's running, what you open daily, what fits the rest of your stack. Sort by relevance and the wheat sorts itself from the chaff.
Sift doesn't recite App Store blurbs. It sees that your machine is heavily AI-focused, that the app is open right now, that you have 26 tools across five categories — and writes the tip accordingly.
Directly relevant given 26 installed apps across multiple categories; useful for periodic inventory, version tracking, and cleanup decisions in your developer stack.
“I use this all the time.” Last used: never. On disk: 27.1 MB. Source: Sparkle. Analyzed: 4 weeks ago. Every claim Sift makes comes with the receipt attached.
Sparkle, direct download, App Store — Sift knows where each app came from and whether it's current. Find the stale copy, the duplicate install, and the updater that stopped running.
No accounts, no cloud sync, no setup ritual. Point Sift at your Mac and read the report.
Sift reads /Applications and the usual install locations, pulling bundle metadata — version, size, source, running state, last-opened date — into a single sortable list.
Each app gets a plain-English identity, a 1–5 relevance score weighted by your actual usage, and a tip written for your stack — not a generic App Store blurb.
Keep, update, or delete — with the receipts on screen. Run it quarterly and your Applications folder never gets away from you again.
Sift launches September 2026. Star the GitHub repo and the release will land in your feed the minute it ships.
Your /Applications folder and standard install locations. For each app it reads public bundle metadata — name, version, category, bundle ID, size, install source — plus local signals like last-opened date and whether it's running right now.
Usage data — last-used, running state — never leaves your Mac. App identities are analyzed to write the descriptions and relevance scores you see in the report.
Scores weigh your behavior, not generic popularity: how recently and often you open the app, whether it's running now, and how its category fits the rest of your installed stack. A niche tool you live in outranks a famous app you never touch.
No. Sift audits, scores, and recommends — deletion is always your call, made by you, in Finder. It never moves, quits, or removes anything on its own.
Pricing ships with the launch announcement. Watch the GitHub repo — you'll be the first to know.
Your Applications folder has a story — duplicates, stale copies, and that one app you've never opened. Read it in one sitting.