How to uninstall Amie on Mac

Amie keeps your calendar, todos and notes in your Amie account, and Amie's installation page says your data syncs across your devices. What the Mac app keeps locally is its own storage, settings and caches. The account and the subscription are separate from the app: removing Amie from this Mac cancels neither. This guide covers Amie from its official download and from the Homebrew cask amie.

Before you remove it

  • If you are leaving Amie for good, export your data first. Amie's billing page says data is kept for 30 days after you cancel and suggests downloading an export before cancelling.
  • To stop paying, cancel in Amie under Settings › Billing › Cancel Subscription, as that page describes. Do it before you remove the app if the app is where you manage billing.
  • Events in calendars you connected from other providers stay with those providers.

Quit Amie and remove the app

  1. Quit Amie from the Amie menu. In the recorded test it ran ten processes, which Mole's Status page folded into one Amie row.
  2. Search Activity Monitor for Amie and check that its processes have exited.
  3. Move Amie from Finder's Applications folder to the Trash.
  4. Open System Settings › General › Login Items & Extensions. In the recorded test Amie added itself to Open at Login on its first launch. If it is still listed after the app is gone, remove it there.

Amie's updater also registered a background job named so.amie.electron-app.ShipIt for the current login session. In the test it stayed loaded after the uninstall. No file on disk backs it, so it should not return after you log out or restart.

Where Amie keeps its data

Location What it holds What to do
~/Library/Application Support/amie-desktop The app's local storage and settings, about 98 MB in the test Remove once you no longer need Amie on this Mac
~/Library/Caches/amie-desktop-updater Downloaded updates, about 178 MB in the test Remove with the app
~/Library/Caches/amie-desktop and ~/Library/Caches/so.amie.electron-app App caches Remove with the app
~/Library/Logs/amie-desktop App logs Remove with the app
~/Library/Preferences/so.amie.electron-app.plist App preferences Remove with the app

Check the result

pgrep -il amie
launchctl list | grep -i amie
ls -d "$HOME/Library/Application Support/amie-desktop"
  • No output from pgrep means Amie is not running. Other process names that happen to contain "amie" are not Amie; check the name before quitting anything.
  • A so.amie.electron-app.ShipIt line from launchctl list is the session job described above. It points at an app that is gone and should not return after you log out or restart. No output means nothing is loaded.
  • ls -d printing the path means the local data folder is still there; "No such file or directory" means it is gone.

If you installed it with Homebrew

The amie cask's zap list is ~/Library/Application Support/amie-desktop, ~/Library/Caches/amie-desktop, ~/Library/Logs/amie-desktop, the preferences file and the saved window state. brew uninstall --cask --zap amie moves them to the Trash whatever you ticked in Mole. To remove only the app:

brew uninstall --cask amie

Mole adds --zap only when every path on the zap list sits inside ~/Library, none of them touches a row you left unchecked, and no other installed app claims them. ~/Library/Application Support/amie-desktop is listed but not selected by default, so Mole leaves --zap out unless you tick that row.

What Mole lists

For Amie from the official download:

  • ~/Library/Application Support/amie-desktop is listed but not selected. The cache folders inside it (Cache, Code Cache, blob_storage) are separate rows selected by default.
  • ~/Library/Caches/amie-desktop, ~/Library/Caches/amie-desktop-updater, ~/Library/Logs/amie-desktop, and the caches, HTTP storage, preferences, updater preferences, recent-documents list and temporary caches filed under so.amie.electron-app are selected by default.
  • The ShipIt session job is not a file and is not listed.

What this test covered

On September 26, 2026, Amie 260909.0.0 was installed from its official zip, opened once without signing in, and uninstalled with a development build of Mole with every row ticked. Status showed one Amie row with ten processes using about 818 MB. On first launch Amie added a login item and loaded the ShipIt session job. Seventeen items went to the Trash, including ~/Library/Application Support/amie-desktop (about 98 MB) and the updater cache (about 178 MB), and nothing from the list was left on disk. The login item was gone after the uninstall; the ShipIt job was still loaded. Earlier, on September 22, 2026, the same version was removed the same way without a failure. Signing in, calendar sync, meeting notes and a Homebrew install were not tested.