# Install mole with Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix Deep clean and optimize your Mac. Version 1.44.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-29. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:mole ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install mole ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install mole ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: net/mole/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#mole ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mo/mole/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:mole - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.44.1 - **Source summary:** Deep clean and optimize your Mac - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** GPL-3.0-or-later - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-29T04:35:03Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00 ## Executables - mo (cli) - mole (cli) - mo (alias) - mole (alias) ## Build dependencies - go ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 1.44.1 - Package-manager updated: 2026-06-29 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/tw93/Mole - info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Project history and usage Mole is a macOS cleanup and maintenance tool published under the tw93/Mole GitHub project. Its README presents the CLI as free and open source and describes it as a terminal tool for cleaning, uninstalling, analyzing, optimizing, and monitoring a Mac. The same project links a native Mole for Mac app that adds visual cleanup review, app updates, uninstall workflows, maintenance tools, disk maps, live status, and a menu-bar HUD. ### Project history The tool's practical role is in the Mac utility niche usually occupied by GUI cleaners and uninstallers. Mole's README explicitly compares its feature set to CleanMyMac, AppCleaner, DaisyDisk, and iStat Menus: cache and log removal, orphaned app data cleanup, application uninstall plus launch agents and hidden remnants, disk-usage inspection, cache rebuilding, service refreshes, and live CPU, GPU, memory, disk, and network stats. ### How it is used Package-manager adoption is macOS-focused. Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix carry it as a command-line utility, while the upstream project separates the free CLI from the paid native app. Public source-backed history beyond the repository and product site is thin, so this entry treats Mole as a young package-manager-visible Mac maintenance utility rather than making claims about its origin story or broader adoption. ### Sources - - - - ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for mole. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL. ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** mole - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Requirements:** macos - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - mole: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mo/mole/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - MacPorts - mole: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: net/mole/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Nix - mo: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mo/mo/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Homebrew utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew-utility-packages/) - Matched Homebrew package provider. - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts. - [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [tmpreaper](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/tmpreaper/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cleanup, cli, maintenance, system, system-maintenance. - [tmpwatch](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/tmpwatch/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cleanup, cli, maintenance, system, system-maintenance. - [dark-mode](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dark-mode/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, macos, system. - [defaultbrowser](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/defaultbrowser/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, macos, system. - [devcockpit](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/devcockpit/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, macos, system. - [fileicon](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/fileicon/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, macos, system. - [infat](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/infat/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, macos, system. - [launch](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/launch/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, macos, system. - [topgrade](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/topgrade/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, maintenance, system, system-maintenance. - [modclean](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/modclean/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: clean, cleanup, cli, system, your. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mole.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/mole.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph