ballast
See where your Mac's disk space went, and get it back without breaking anything. Native SwiftUI, macOS 26.
Details
- External ID
- 1387893981
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- ballast
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.28183448629259544
- Tags
- cleaner, disk-space, liquid-glass, macos, swiftui
- Fetched at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS utilities and system tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- disk space manager for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While the native SwiftUI frontend can be vibe-coded, safely identifying and cleaning macOS system caches, APFS snapshots, and developer artifacts requires precise knowledge of macOS file system internals and root privilege management.
What it would actually take: The app requires a native Swift/SwiftUI desktop architecture integrating with Apple's lower-level APIs (such as `getattrlistbulk` or POSIX file scanning) for high-performance disk traversal. The challenging part is building a curated, safe catalog of purgeable paths (Xcode caches, Docker VM files, CocoaPods, APFS local snapshots via `tmutil`) and safely requesting elevated privileges via Privileged Helper Tools or `SMAppService` without compromising system integrity or corrupting active applications.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 263 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #221 of 264 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
- diskwise · github · 2026-09-16 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- I Built SwiftUI but for macOS MDM · hn · 2026-04-20 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- DiskCompanion · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- DiskMac - Reclaim disk space · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MacDissect · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- cleanupper · github · 2026-09-23 · 724 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- kuu · github · 2026-09-18 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- DiskWright · ph · 2026-09-18 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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- No other launches for this product.
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