How to uninstall Fleet on Mac
JetBrains discontinued Fleet: it stopped being available for download on December 22, 2025, receives no further updates, and features that rely on JetBrains' servers, such as AI Assistant, may stop working over time even in a copy you already have (The Future of Fleet). Because JetBrains no longer offers the download, keep the installer if you might want Fleet back, and back up any settings you want to keep before removing it. Fleet's folders sit inside a JetBrains folder that IntelliJ IDEA, DataGrip, Toolbox and other JetBrains apps also use, so remove only the Fleet folders, never the parent. This guide covers the Mac app downloaded from JetBrains (bundle id com.jetbrains.fleet) and the Homebrew cask fleet.
Quit Fleet and remove the app
- Quit Fleet from its application menu, then check Activity Monitor for a remaining Fleet process.
- Find Fleet in Finder's Applications folder and move it to the Trash.
Where Fleet keeps its data
Press Shift + Command + G in Finder and open each location that exists.
| Location | What it holds | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Fleet | Fleet's own support folder, inside the shared JetBrains folder. |
Back up what you want to keep, then remove only this Fleet folder. |
| ~/Library/Caches/JetBrains/Fleet | Fleet's cache, inside the shared JetBrains cache folder. |
Remove only this Fleet folder. |
| ~/Library/Logs/JetBrains/Fleet | Fleet's log files. | Safe to remove. |
| ~/.fleet | A home folder Homebrew's zap list for Fleet names. Fleet did not create it in the recorded test. | If it exists, check what is inside before removing it. |
Leave ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains, ~/Library/Caches/JetBrains and ~/Library/Logs/JetBrains themselves in place, along with every other product folder inside them, such as IntelliJIdea2026.2, DataGrip2026.2 or Toolbox.
If you installed it with Homebrew
Mole skips --zap when its list reaches unchecked or shared data, paths outside ~/Library, or anything it cannot check, and still cleans the leftovers you selected.
The fleet cask's zap list is ~/.fleet, ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Fleet, ~/Library/Caches/JetBrains/Fleet and ~/Library/Logs/JetBrains/Fleet. Because ~/.fleet sits outside ~/Library, Mole's Homebrew removal of Fleet always drops --zap and removes the rows you ticked through its own deletion path. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap fleet yourself moves all four to the Trash regardless of what you ticked in Mole; to keep any of them, back them up first or remove only the app:
brew uninstall --cask fleet
The cask also links a fleet command to /opt/homebrew/bin/fleet, which points inside the app bundle and is removed with it.
Check the result
pgrep -il fleet
command -v fleet
ls -d ~/.fleet "$HOME/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Fleet" "$HOME/Library/Caches/JetBrains/Fleet" "$HOME/Library/Logs/JetBrains/Fleet"
No output from pgrep means no Fleet process is running. command -v fleet returning a path means a fleet command is still on your PATH; if it points into the removed app, delete that link separately, and no output means none is left. ls -d prints each folder that still exists and reports "No such file or directory" for the rest; a printed Fleet folder is one you left unticked or have not removed yet, and ~/.fleet often reports "No such file or directory" because Fleet never created it.
What Mole lists
For a Fleet app installed from JetBrains' own download:
~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Fleet,~/Library/Caches/JetBrains/Fleetand~/Library/Logs/JetBrains/Fleetare listed but not selected, because they sit inside a vendor folder other JetBrains apps share. Tick them to remove them: Mole moves theseFleetfolders to the Trash for Fleet's own uninstall, unless your own Mole whitelist covers them or a folder holds an application.- The shared
JetBrainsparent folders and other products' folders inside them are never listed. - Mole can also list
~/.fleet, taken from Homebrew's zap list for this app, but does not select it.
What this test covered
Fleet 1.48.261 was copied into Applications from JetBrains' official aarch64 download and uninstalled on September 21, 2026, with Mole 1.15 Preview (build 282), with every row in the review list ticked; there was no Homebrew receipt. The app, its preferences file and ~/Library/Logs/JetBrains/Fleet (4.8 MB) went to the Trash. ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Fleet (92 KB) and ~/Library/Caches/JetBrains/Fleet (76 KB) were listed and ticked, but that build refused them with SKIPPED_WHITELIST because both sit under whitelisted JetBrains parents, so they stayed on disk. Fleet did not create ~/.fleet during the test. The Homebrew cask and signing in to JetBrains services were not tested.