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Your Mac. With room to breathe.

See what fills your Mac’s disk, slows it down or starts without asking. Headroom fixes it only when you say so.

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Free to scan. Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later. Signed and notarised by Apple.

Behind the Headroom mark sits the app’s Overview screen: a 13-inch MacBook Air with M4, its storage, memory, processor and battery at a glance, and a button to run a full check.

Six tools.
One quiet app.

Everything that fills, slows or exposes your Mac, explained in plain words before anything changes.

Inside Headroom

Clean

Every item comes with its size, its path and what happens when it goes.

  • Only things that rebuild themselves are ticked
  • Skips projects you have open right now
  • Photos, Mail, Messages and iCloud are never touched

Duplicates

Exact copies, checked byte for byte and grouped by type.

  • Share space keeps every file where it is
  • Or move the extra copies to the Bin
  • Nothing changes until you confirm

Space

A map of your whole disk, every block sized by the space it takes.

  • Click any block to look inside
  • Switch to your largest files in one click
  • Looking never deletes anything

Speed

Live CPU and memory, and the apps using the most of each.

  • Updates every two seconds
  • Quit asks an app to save first
  • No fake memory boosts

Battery

How your battery is ageing, read from macOS’s own power log.

  • Health against new, and charge cycles
  • What is charging it, right now
  • Seven days of charge history

Protect

macOS’s own protections, and every program that starts by itself.

  • FileVault, firewall, Gatekeeper and updates checked
  • Opens the right setting for anything that is off
  • Hidden startup scripts decoded, not just listed
Clean screen: 47.2 GB ready to clear, with each developer cache ticked and listed by size, path and what happens to it. Duplicates screen: 1.9 GB taken by extra copies across photos, videos and documents, each set listed with its size and which copy is kept. Space screen: 121 GB free of 494 GB, a map of the disk where every block is sized by the space it takes, and the biggest folders listed beside it. Speed screen: the processor 55 percent busy over the last two minutes, calm memory pressure, and the apps using the most memory, each with a Quit button. Battery screen: 93 percent of its original capacity, 243 charge cycles, charging right now, and a chart of the last seven days of charge. Protect screen: four of six protections on, with FileVault and the firewall off and a Turn on button for each, and the programs that start by themselves below.

Free to scan. $19 to fix.

Free

Download and see everything.

  • Download and scan everything
  • See the disk map
  • Find duplicates and large files
  • Check battery health
  • Watch live speed
  • Run the security check

Unlocked once

$19, one payment.

  • One-click clean
  • Remove duplicates
  • Move large files to the Bin
  • Fix security issues
  • Turn off startup items

One payment. Yours forever. Up to 3 Macs. No subscription.

Nothing is lost. Nothing leaves.

once

$19 once. Yours forever.

  • Secure checkout by Polar.
  • Full refund within 30 days.
  • Works on up to 3 Macs. No subscription.
Download free Buy for $19

Signed and notarised by Apple.

  1. Buy at Polar’s secure checkout.
  2. Your key arrives by email. It also shows right after payment.
  3. Paste it into Headroom with Enter Licence Key.

Questions.

What is free?

Downloading and scanning. Without paying you can see the disk map, find duplicates and large files, check battery health, watch live speed and run the security check. Paying once unlocks one-click cleaning, removing duplicates, moving large files to the Bin, fixing security issues and turning off startup items.

How does the licence work?

You pay $19 once. Your licence key shows after payment and arrives by email. Paste it into Headroom with Enter Licence Key. One key works on up to 3 Macs, with no subscription.

Is it safe?

Headroom only changes what you tick, and explains each item first. It never touches Photos, Mail, Messages, iCloud or Keychain. Extra copies go to the Bin or become space-sharing clones, so nothing is lost, and build folders are never offered from a project you have open.

Which Macs does it run on?

Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later.

Can I get a refund?

Yes, within 30 days. Reply to your receipt email or use the Polar customer portal. Polar is the merchant of record and handles payment, tax and invoices. Read the refund policy.

Does it upload anything?

No. Your files never leave your Mac. The only network request Headroom makes checks your licence key with Polar.