Frequently asked questions.

macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. Nothing has to be installed first.

Little: the installer is 440 KB and the app, once on disk, 1.1 MB.

It is handed out by hand. Getting into the App Store takes a developer certificate and passing a review; until then, macOS asks you to confirm the first launch.

Nothing, unless you ask. No account, no analytics, no version check. The only exception is “Help improve Brisa”.

To measure the folders macOS protects: Documents, Desktop, Downloads, Photos, iCloud, Mail and Messages. Without it, Brisa works and tells you what is missing.

In “~/Library/Application Support/Brisa/”: the trash, the history, your exclusions and a sample of the Mac’s status. You can clear it from the app.

Caches apps rebuild, downloads nobody opened, repeated copies, old installers and whatever was already in the system trash. Never photos, documents or music.

Yes: what was removed goes through Brisa’s Trash with its date. It is restored one item at a time, and you set the window in Settings.

Yes, and Brisa warns you first. Only what you mark is removed; what other applications share stays.

It prefers the best quality, the one in the most accessible folder and the most recently used. You can change the pick before applying anything.

It runs in the background and does one thing: it empties its Trash once what you removed reaches the window. It tells you how much it freed.

Yes, in two steps: the “--reset” command removes the maintenance and all local data, and then you delete the app from Applications.