conso CONSO

NATIVE·APPLE SILICON·ON-DEVICE

Your Mac, in good hands.

Clean, optimize, and understand your Mac from one native menu-bar app. Five focused tools and an Apple-Intelligence advisor that explains what's going on — all on-device. conso makes no network calls of its own.

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conso — Status
StatusCleanSoftwareOptimizeAnalyze
Health 5/5 checks M3 · 26.3
Healthy
Memory, thermals, and disk all look good.
up 3d 4h · since Jun 11
87SCORE
CPU47°C
14%
10 cores · load 1.84
GPU47°C
8%
30 cores
Memory16 GB
9.2 GB
pressure normal · no swap
Disk994 GB
312 GB
682 GB free · Macintosh HD
NetworkWi-Fi 6
↓ 2.4 Mbps
↑ 340 kbps
Battery92% health
76%
142 cycles · 4:12 left
On battery
NAMEPIDCPU ▾MEM
WWindowServer
1849.2%412 MB
cconso
510423.1%88 MB
SSafari
472182.4%1.1 GB

The full Status surface — live, on-device telemetry, recreated here in HTML.

THE PRINCIPLE

On-device by default.
Nothing phones home.

Disk scans, telemetry, the safety checks before a delete, even the AI prose — all of it runs on your Mac. No analytics, no account, no server. conso makes no network calls of its own; the only network it ever touches is the one you point an app updater at.

01 · MENU BAR

It lives in your menu bar.

A glance gives you live CPU, GPU, memory, and network sparklines and a thermal read-out. Below them, one-tap Quick Actions: Keep Awake, Clean Keys, Clean Screen, show Hidden Files — and a jump straight to Quick Clean or Optimize.

☕ Keep Awake Clean Keys Clean Screen

02 · CLEAN

Nothing's deleted without a preview.

conso scans caches, logs, and junk, then shows you exactly what it found and how much it frees. A tested allow/deny safety guard refuses anything outside the known-safe set — your data is never on the table.

✓ safety guard preview before delete empties Trash

03 · ANALYZE

See exactly where it all went.

A real squarified treemap maps every byte by size, so the space hogs are obvious at a glance. A Files finder surfaces content-hash duplicates and old, unused files — so you reclaim space deliberately, not blindly.

squarified treemap ⊞ duplicate finder largest folders

04 · DOCTOR

It explains your Mac, in plain words.

Press the stethoscope and the Doctor reads your Mac back to you — a health score, a plain headline, and a few specific findings. Built on Apple's Foundation Models, but the rule is facts → words: conso gathers the facts, the model only phrases them. It never decides and never runs anything, and falls back to hand-written copy with Apple Intelligence off.

✚ stethoscope facts → words deterministic fallback

05 · ASK CONSO

Ask in plain English. ⌘K

Hit ⌘K and ask about your Mac — "why is it slow?" conso answers from real telemetry, then offers up to two one-tap actions you confirm. It only ever runs its own maintenance tools, never arbitrary commands, and the same "What's this?" explainer sits on every Clean / Software / Optimize item.

✦ Apple Intelligence grounded answers “What's this?” explainer

Five tools. One menu-bar app.

NON-SANDBOXED · NO SUBSCRIPTIONS

Software
A real app inventory that routes each update to the right place — Homebrew, the Mac App Store, Sparkle, or softwareupdate. Filter by App, Library, or System.
Optimize
A curated “fix a problem” catalog — rebuild Spotlight, flush DNS, clear font caches. Everything is situational and default-off; nothing runs unless you ask.
Privileged helper
The few root tasks go through a tiny SMAppService daemon with a strict, hardcoded whitelist — no shell, no arbitrary arguments, and a code-sign-validated XPC link in both directions.
Scheduled auto-clean
Optionally let Quick Clean run on a schedule — off by default, with the same preview and safety guard. It catches up on overdue runs at launch and never touches anything outside the safe set.
◆ Private by design

Your Mac's data never leaves it.

conso is a single native binary — no Electron, no web view, no phone-home. It collects no analytics and makes no network calls of its own. The privileged helper only ever runs commands from its hardcoded list, and the Apple-Intelligence advisor turns facts into words without anything leaving your machine. It's clean-room and MIT-licensed — read every line.

Trying it out and something feels off?

conso is a portfolio project and I'm still polishing the rough edges. If the first launch trips you up, a setting confuses you, or anything just feels wrong, send me a note — I'd genuinely like to help you get it running.