How to uninstall Descript on Mac

Descript saves your projects to the cloud as you edit, so removing the Mac app does not delete them, and the original media you imported stays wherever it was on your Mac. Before you uninstall, let open projects finish syncing, then remove the app, its support folder and, if you ever recorded computer audio, Descript's audio driver. These steps cover Descript downloaded from descript.com and the Homebrew cask descript.

Let your projects finish syncing

Descript's cloud saving page says there is no Save button: edits go to the cloud as you make them, and you need an internet connection for that to happen. Open Descript while online once more so your latest edits have synced before you uninstall. Descript also keeps a copy of each file you import or record, plus a smaller optimized version, locally and uploads both. Your own original files are not affected by removing Descript.

Uninstalling does not cancel a Descript subscription or delete your account. Manage those on the web.

Quit Descript and remove the app

Descript's uninstall page lists these steps:

  1. Quit Descript fully by Option-clicking the D icon in the menu bar.
  2. Move Descript from the Applications folder to the Trash.
  3. For a full uninstall, open Finder, choose Go › Go to Folder, enter ~/Library/Application Support and move the Descript folder to the Trash. Include the tilde; without it you land in a different Application Support folder with no Descript folder in it.
  4. If you used Descript to record computer audio, go to /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL the same way and move DescriptLoopbackAudio.driver to the Trash. Finder may ask for an administrator password because this folder is shared by the whole Mac. Remove only that driver.

Check the result

Run these read-only commands in Terminal:

pgrep -lf Descript.app
ls -d "$HOME/Library/Application Support/Descript"
ls -d /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DescriptLoopbackAudio.driver
  • No output from pgrep means no process is running from Descript.app. A listed process means Descript is still in the menu bar; quit it with Option-click.
  • ls -d printing the support folder means it is still there. "No such file or directory" means it is gone.
  • The second ls -d printing the driver means the computer audio driver is still installed; "No such file or directory" means it was never installed or has been removed.

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 descript cask's zap list includes ~/Library/Application Support/Descript, Descript's own support folder, along with caches, the ShipIt updater cache, preferences for Descript, its installer and its screen recorder, and saved window state. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap descript yourself moves them to the Trash, whatever you ticked in Mole. The zap list does not include the audio driver. To keep local data, remove only the app:

brew uninstall --cask descript

What Mole lists

This is how Mole handles Descript installed from the official download:

  • ~/Library/Application Support/Descript is listed but not selected. The rebuildable caches inside it, Cache, Code Cache, Crashpad and blob_storage, are separate rows selected by default.
  • The com.descript.beachcube preferences file, the app's recent-documents list and its temporary cache folders are selected by default.
  • DescriptLoopbackAudio.driver is not listed. Mole does not scan /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL for Descript, so remove the driver yourself with the step above.

What this test covered

On September 26, 2026, Descript 114.0.4 was installed from the official package Homebrew's cask points to, checked against its checksum and copied into Applications, launched once without signing in, and uninstalled with a development build of Mole with every listed row ticked, including the ones Mole leaves unchecked. Mole's Status page showed Descript as one row with eight processes. The app, the support folder with its caches, the preferences and the temporary caches, 10 items in all, went to the Trash, and none of them was still on disk afterwards. No login item or launch agent appeared. No project was created, no computer audio was recorded, so the driver was never installed, and the Homebrew cask was not uninstalled. An earlier test on September 21, 2026 removed the app and its 115 KB support folder the same way.