Tidy lives in your menu bar and handles three chores you keep doing by hand. It archives new Desktop screenshots, renaming them from their content with on-device OCR — "Screenshot 14.22.10.png" becomes "invoice-march.png". It ejects thedmg you mounted and trashes the installer. It sorts new Downloads by type, with rules you write in plain English. Apple Intelligence builds them on-device, so nothing leaves your Mac. Only touches new files. Never deletes. $9 once, no subscription.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I built Tidy because three things kept eating my Desktop: screenshots, .dmg installers, and a Downloads folder I'd given up on.
Funny thing happened while testing the checkout. I bought my own app, downloaded the .dmg, dragged it to Applications, opened it — then went looking for the installer to clean up.
It was already in the Trash. Tidy had ejected the disk and trashed its own installer. Nobody told it to. That's just what it does.
Two rules I set for myself:
· Only touches NEW files — never your backlog.
· Never deletes. Archives or trashes, always reversible.
The plain-English rules run on Apple Intelligence, on-device — nothing leaves your Mac. That's also why it's $9 once, not a subscription: my marginal cost per user is zero.
Happy to answer anything.
I literally set aside time each week to do this myself so this is so cool!! Does it let you set custom rules beyond strict logic or is there a way to use the AI to set rules with more context that I can describe to it? Also would love to see a log of everything that's been changed every now and then so that I can clear my trash with confidence. Great stuff!
the "only touches new files, never deletes" design is the right call for something running unsupervised. one edge case I'm curious about: I have Desktop & Downloads Folder sync turned on through iCloud, so files sometimes sit as not-yet-downloaded placeholders for a few seconds. does Tidy wait for a file to actually finish downloading locally before it acts, or is there a chance it grabs a placeholder mid-sync
The screenshot renaming with on-device OCR is genuinely useful, finally my Desktop isn't a graveyard of "Screenshot 14.22.10.png" files. Love that it only handles new files and never nukes anything, plus nine bucks once feels right for something this focused.
the on-device OCR renaming screenshots based on their actual content is such a clever touch. feels like the kind of small detail that makes you trust the rest of the app to do the right thing.
The OCR rename for screenshots is genuinely useful, turned a messy pile into something I could actually search. The plain English rules for Downloads feel like the right idea too, though I wish I could preview where a file would land before it moves.
finally something that doesnt try to be a whole file manager. the ocr renaming actually got my messy desktop down to zero icons in a couple days.
Love the plain English rules and the on-device approach. One idea: let me exclude folders from the auto-sort, since I keep a Downloads subfolder for client assets that I want untouched. A simple right-click "ignore this folder" option would save me from writing a rule for every exception.
Screenshot auto-renaming on Mac is one of those tiny things I never bothered to fix and now wish I had sooner. The "never deletes, only touches new files" promise is what sold me.
the fact that it only touches new files and never deletes anything is such a thoughtful call, basically removes all the anxiety of letting a tool mess with your stuff.
Love the plain English rules for Downloads, that's exactly the kind of thing I'd actually use. One thing I'd love is the ability to undo a sort run if a rule misfires, since sorting is the kind of action that feels safer when you can roll it back.
honestly the plain english rules thing is what got me, i typed "put pdfs from clients into Work/Clients" and it just worked. apple intelligence on-device feels like the right call too
Love the "never deletes" promise and the plain-English rules idea. One thought: a quick "undo" or staging area where I can preview what Tidy is about to do before it actually renames or moves things would make me way more comfortable letting it run unsupervised on my Downloads folder.
Would love a "dry run" mode before it actually moves files - maybe a weekly notification showing what it would have done so I can catch any rule tweaks before things get shuffled around.
the screenshots renamed via on-device OCR is such a thoughtful touch. honestly didn't know i needed it until i saw it. love that it only touches new files too, feels safe to leave running.
the "never deletes" line buried at the end is such a thoughtful trust signal, made me actually relax while reading. and the plain english rules for downloads feel like the right level of magic, on device and inspectable instead of some opaque sorter.
Love that it only touches new files and never deletes, took that worry off my mind right away. The plain English rules for Downloads feel like the kind of thing I actually want to set up once and forget about.
Hi! Does it leave a log of some sort? Meaning, in the case of "hey, where is my file?" can the user know quickly what happened to it?
Auto-organizing Downloads and screenshots is one of those "small thing, huge relief" features. Does it let you set custom rules per file type, or is the sorting logic fixed?
Love how it only touches new files and never deletes, that alone makes me trust it more than most utilities. One idea: let me exclude specific folders from the Downloads sorter, since I keep a WIP folder inside Downloads where client assets live that I don't want shuffled into Images or Documents at midnight.
About Tidy on Product Hunt
“Your Mac tidies itself: screenshots, installers, Downloads”
Tidy launched on Product Hunt on July 21st, 2026 and earned 122 upvotes and 52 comments, placing #17 on the daily leaderboard. Tidy lives in your menu bar and handles three chores you keep doing by hand. It archives new Desktop screenshots, renaming them from their content with on-device OCR — "Screenshot 14.22.10.png" becomes "invoice-march.png". It ejects thedmg you mounted and trashes the installer. It sorts new Downloads by type, with rules you write in plain English. Apple Intelligence builds them on-device, so nothing leaves your Mac. Only touches new files. Never deletes. $9 once, no subscription.
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