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Behind the apps
7 posts in this category.
4 November 2026 · 4 min read
The orange triangle: what SweepyMac does when it cannot see something
Every scanner meets folders it cannot read. The dishonest ones leave them out and show you a clean total. SweepyMac marks incomplete lists, lists the locations it could not scan, skips health checks it cannot measure, and labels space a deletion would not actually free.
- SweepyMac
- Behind the apps
- macOS
4 November 2026 · 4 min read
Annual, monthly or once: choosing a SweepyMac plan, and moving a licence between Macs
Three ways to pay, for one, two or five Macs, after a three-day trial with no account. What each plan costs, where the break-even points are, how a key activates and moves to a new Mac, and what the licence check sends.
- SweepyMac
- Behind the apps
1 November 2026 · 4 min read
What a Mac cleaner should never do
Most cleaning apps ask you to trust them. SweepyMac is built so you do not have to: everything it removes goes to the Trash, every clean has an Undo, and every group opens up before you press anything.
- SweepyMac
- Mac maintenance
- Behind the apps
18 October 2026 · 4 min read
What SweepyMac's malware scanner actually checks, and what it is not
Launch agents by name, file contents by hash and byte pattern, code signatures, cron jobs and browser extensions. What each signal means, why a finding is labelled by how it was found, and why an on-demand scanner is a complement to macOS, not a replacement for it.
- SweepyMac
- Privacy
- Behind the apps
10 October 2026 · 4 min read
Why our apps make no network requests, and the one exception
FocusLens has no network code at all. SweepyMac has one connection, for a signed malware definitions file. Here is what no telemetry means in practice, what we give up for it, and how you can check the claim yourself.
- Privacy
- Behind the apps
- SweepyMac
- FocusLens
5 October 2026 · 3 min read
How a studio engagement runs, from the first call to the handover
AppVerz takes on a handful of product engagements a year. This is the shape every one of them takes: a thirty-minute call, a written scope within a week, working software every week after that, and a handover the client's own team can run.
- Studio
- Behind the apps
18 September 2026 · 4 min read
The one delete path: how SweepyMac is built so it cannot delete the wrong thing
Every removal in SweepyMac goes through a single function with a single guard. Each module publishes the folders it is allowed to clean, the guard rejects anything outside them, and the four permanent actions are fenced off separately. A look under the hood.
- Behind the apps
- SweepyMac