How to uninstall Cryptomator on Mac
Lock every open vault and quit Cryptomator before removing it. Your vaults are ordinary encrypted folders wherever you created them, in a cloud-synced folder, on an external drive or on the local disk, and removing the app does not touch them. Only the app's settings, logs and preferences live under your user Library. This guide covers the official download from Cryptomator's GitHub releases and the Homebrew cask cryptomator.
Remove the app
Lock your vaults, quit Cryptomator, then move Cryptomator.app from Applications to the Trash. If macOS says it is still in use, quit whatever still has a vault open first.
Removing a vault from the list does not delete it
Cryptomator's documentation says removing a vault from the app's list does not delete it from your computer; to delete the encrypted files for good you delete the vault folder yourself in the file manager. Uninstalling the app works the same way: every vault folder stays where it is. Cryptomator: Vault management
Where the data lives
| Location | What it holds | What Mole does |
|---|---|---|
~/Library/Application Support/Cryptomator |
App settings, not vault contents | Listed, not selected by default |
~/Library/Logs/Cryptomator |
App logs | Listed and selected by default |
~/Library/Preferences/org.cryptomator.plist |
Preferences | Listed and selected by default |
| Your vault folders, wherever you created them | Your encrypted files | Never scanned; keep them |
If you installed it with Homebrew
Mole skips --zap when its list reaches unchecked or shared data, or cannot be fully checked, and still cleans the leftovers you selected.
The cryptomator cask's zap list is ~/Library/Application Support/Cryptomator, ~/Library/Logs/Cryptomator and ~/Library/Preferences/org.cryptomator.plist. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap cryptomator yourself moves all three to the Trash, whatever you ticked in Mole; it never reaches your vault folders. Because the Application Support row is unticked by default, a default Mole uninstall leaves --zap out and keeps that folder. Homebrew cryptomator cask
To remove only the app:
brew uninstall --cask cryptomator
Check the result
pgrep -il Cryptomator
mdfind "kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier == 'org.cryptomator'"
ls -d "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Cryptomator" "$HOME/Library/Logs/Cryptomator"
No output from pgrep means Cryptomator is not running. No output from mdfind means Spotlight finds no copy of the app; a path in the output is a copy still on disk. ls -d prints each folder that still exists and reports "No such file or directory" for the rest. None of this looks at your vaults; check them at the location where you created them.
What Mole lists
~/Library/Application Support/Cryptomatoris listed and not selected by default.~/Library/Logs/Cryptomator, the preferences file and the app's temporary folder are listed and selected by default.- Vault folders are never listed.
What this test covered
On September 21, 2026, Cryptomator 1.19.3 for Apple Silicon was copied from its official disk image into Applications, opened, and uninstalled with a Preview build of Mole 1.15 (build 282), with no Homebrew receipt. No vault was created. With every listed row ticked, the app (141.9 MB), the 4 KB Application Support folder, the Logs folder and the temporary folder went to the Trash. Unlocking a vault, cloud-synced vaults and uninstalling while a vault is mounted were not tested.