How to uninstall Antigravity on Mac

Antigravity is Google's AI coding IDE, distributed either as a direct download from antigravity.google or through the Homebrew cask antigravity. Save any open project work the way you would with any code editor before removing it; Antigravity's own documentation covers installing the app but not removing it. These steps cover both installation channels.

Quit and remove the app

  1. Quit Antigravity from its application menu or Command + Q, then check Activity Monitor for Antigravity and confirm its processes have exited.
  2. Move Antigravity.app from Finder's Applications folder to the Trash. If macOS says it's in use, quit the process first rather than forcing the deletion.
  3. Open System Settings › General › Login Items & Extensions and check whether an Antigravity entry is listed; turn it off if so.

Where Antigravity keeps data

In Finder, press Shift + Command + G and open each location that exists.

Location What it holds What to do
~/Library/Application Support/Antigravity App data Named after the app rather than its bundle ID; review before removing
~/Library/Caches/com.google.antigravity and .../com.google.antigravity.ShipIt Cache and the Squirrel updater's cache Safe to remove after quitting
~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.google.antigravity Local web storage Remove with the app
~/Library/Preferences/com.google.antigravity.plist and the ByHost ShipIt preference Preferences Remove for a clean reinstall
~/Library/Saved Application State/com.google.Antigravity.savedState Saved window state Remove with the app
~/Library/Logs/Antigravity Logs Remove with the app
~/.antigravity A dotfolder in your home directory, separate from ~/Library Named in Homebrew's zap list; back up anything you want to keep before running zap
~/.gemini/antigravity Antigravity state such as conversation history, kept inside ~/.gemini, the folder Google's Gemini CLI also uses Keep it unless you are sure you no longer need anything in it; see below

The last row is the one to be careful with. ~/.gemini is also where Google's Gemini command-line tool keeps its own files, and the antigravity folder inside it is not tied to one copy of the app: on the test Mac it already held data from more than a month before this install. Removing the app doesn't require touching it, so leave it alone unless you have checked what it holds.

For other AI coding tools and their local caches, see Clean Up AI Coding Tools on Mac: Caches, CLIs, Transcripts.

Check the result

pgrep -il antigravity
launchctl list | grep -i antigravity
ls -d ~/.antigravity ~/.gemini/antigravity "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Antigravity"
  • No output from pgrep means no Antigravity process is running. A listed process means it's still open; quit it before touching its folders.
  • No output from launchctl list means no Antigravity job is loaded in your session. A listed job means a background helper is still registered.
  • ls -d prints each folder that still exists and reports "No such file or directory" for the rest. A surviving ~/.gemini/antigravity is expected and is not a leftover Mole missed; it's the shared folder described above.

If you installed it with Homebrew

The antigravity cask's zap list reaches ~/.antigravity, ~/.gemini/antigravity, ~/Library/Application Support/Antigravity, the two Caches folders, HTTPStorages, ~/Library/Logs/Antigravity, the ByHost ShipIt preference, the recent-documents list, your preferences file and saved window state. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap antigravity yourself moves all of them to the Trash, whatever you ticked in Mole. Homebrew Antigravity cask

When Mole removes a Homebrew install, it checks the zap list first. This one names ~/.antigravity and ~/.gemini/antigravity, both outside ~/Library, so Mole always leaves --zap out for Antigravity: Homebrew removes the app and its receipt, and only the rows you ticked in Mole go to the Trash.

To remove only the app and keep everything else the zap list would reach:

brew uninstall --cask antigravity

What Mole lists

For Antigravity installed from Google's own download or the Homebrew cask:

  • The caches, the ShipIt updater cache and preference, HTTPStorages, preferences and saved window state filed under com.google.antigravity, plus ~/Library/Logs/Antigravity, are selected by default.
  • ~/Library/Application Support/Antigravity is listed but not selected, because it's named after the app rather than its bundle ID. The Electron cache folders inside it, such as Cache, Code Cache and GPUCache, are listed as separate rows and selected.
  • Mole can also list ~/.antigravity, taken from Homebrew's zap list for this app, but does not select it.
  • Mole never lists ~/.gemini/antigravity, whichever way you installed Antigravity, even though Homebrew's zap list names it. That folder sits inside ~/.gemini, the directory Google's Gemini CLI also uses, and Mole treats it as protected data.

What this test covered

Antigravity was installed with the Homebrew cask antigravity and uninstalled on September 17, 2026, with a development build of Mole, alongside other apps in the same batch. That build still ran Homebrew's zap step, which moved a ~/.gemini/antigravity folder holding data from more than a month before the install to the Trash; it was restored from the Trash afterwards. The app and its Homebrew receipt were removed. The leftover review screen did not appear in that run, so the unselected rows were not reviewed by hand. Signing in, project files and the direct download from antigravity.google were not tested.