File Expiry
Give your files an expiry date. Keep your Mac clutter-free.
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Details
- External ID
- 1274950
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- File Expiry
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 4
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.92
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
Description
Files pile up on your Mac faster than you realize. Temporary downloads, screenshots, and old documents often stay around long after you need them. FileExpiry helps you stay organized by letting you assign expiration dates to files. ✅ Prevent unnecessary file clutter ✅ Set expiration dates for temporary files ✅ Spend less time cleaning up manually ✅ Keep your Mac organized effortlessly ✅ No subscriptions, just $7.99 lifetime! A simple, lightweight macOS utility
Enrichment
- Niche
- desktop file management utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- file auto-deletion tool for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A lightweight macOS menu bar utility that monitors directories and deletes or archives files after a specified duration can be readily implemented in Swift or Electron using basic OS file APIs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 439 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #46 of 440 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.
- ExpireNot · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- LastFile · ph · 2026-10-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- FreshTrack — Expiry Tracker · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Snapstack · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Kepter · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- DueCalm · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- eat it! · ph · 2026-09-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Shortfuse · hn · 2026-10-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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