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Install mole with Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix

Deep clean and optimize your Mac. Version 1.49.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-08-03. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#mole.

Install command Security notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install mole

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsverified · 94%

sudo port install mole

MacPorts ports tree · net/mole/Portfile · source: api.github.com

Linux

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#mole

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/mo/mole/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Deep clean and optimize your Mac

Project links

Commands and aliases

mo
mole

history

Project history and usage

Mole is a macOS cleanup and maintenance tool published under the tw93/Mole GitHub project. Its README presents the CLI as free and open source and describes it as a terminal tool for cleaning, uninstalling, analyzing, optimizing, and monitoring a Mac. The same project links a native Mole for Mac app that adds visual cleanup review, app updates, uninstall workflows, maintenance tools, disk maps, live status, and a menu-bar HUD.

Project history

The tool's practical role is in the Mac utility niche usually occupied by GUI cleaners and uninstallers. Mole's README explicitly compares its feature set to CleanMyMac, AppCleaner, DaisyDisk, and iStat Menus: cache and log removal, orphaned app data cleanup, application uninstall plus launch agents and hidden remnants, disk-usage inspection, cache rebuilding, service refreshes, and live CPU, GPU, memory, disk, and network stats.

How it is used

Package-manager adoption is macOS-focused. Homebrew, MacPorts, and Nix carry it as a command-line utility, while the upstream project separates the free CLI from the paid native app. Public source-backed history beyond the repository and product site is thin, so this entry treats Mole as a young package-manager-visible Mac maintenance utility rather than making claims about its origin story or broader adoption.

Sources

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for mole. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`mo`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`mole`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version1.49.1

manager updated2026-08-03

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:mole
Version	1.49.1
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://mole.fit
Repository	https://github.com/tw93/Mole
Last updated	2026-08-03T16:16:53Z
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

mole

nix profile install nixpkgs#mole

normalized package name match
Matched by: Mole

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mo/mole/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

MacPorts95%

mole

sudo port install mole

normalized package name match
Matched by: Mole

MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: net/mole/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Nix92%

mo

nix profile install nixpkgs#mo

installed executable or alias match
Matched by: Mo

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mo/mo/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/mole.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
pkg.so package database
pkgdb category and tag curation