Broom
Mac Disk Space Analyzer & Cleaner
Details
- External ID
- 1262991
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Magic Broom
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1 a.m.
Description
Broom is a disk space analyzer and cleaner for Mac. It scans your whole disk in seconds, shows you where the space went, and clears the safe stuff to the Trash, where you can put it back.
Enrichment
- Theme
- system maintenance and file utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- disk space analyzer and cleaner for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While disk visualizers are conceptually straightforward, building a native macOS app with full disk access, high-speed multi-threaded filesystem scanning, and safe trash deletion requires native Swift/macOS expertise.
What it would actually take: A production Mac utility requires Swift or Objective-C using low-level Darwin filesystem APIs (like `fts` or `getattrlistbulk`) to index hundreds of gigabytes in seconds. It needs to handle macOS sandbox permissions, Full Disk Access (FDA), system immutable flags, and APFS snapshots safely. Vibe coding can draft the UI, but reliable, crash-free native OS-level scanning requires native macOS systems programming.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 183 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #45 of 184 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- CheckMyDisk · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- SpaceSharp · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- DiskScope: disk space analyzer · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- SpaceScope · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- CleanOrbit · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Hunter Disk Cleaner · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Easy Disk · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- HideClean · ph · 2026-09-24 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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