How to uninstall Homerow on Mac

Homerow puts a keyboard shortcut on every button on screen. It is sold with a license that can be active on a limited number of Macs, and the terms say you manage those activations in the app's settings, including unlinking a device to free its slot. Do that before you remove the app if you plan to use the license on another Mac. This guide covers the build from homerow.app and the Homebrew cask homerow.

Quit and remove the app

1. Open Homerow's settings and unlink this Mac if you want the activation back.
2. Quit Homerow from its menu bar icon.
3. Open System Settings › General › Login Items & Extensions. If you turned on launch at login, Homerow's launcher helper appears there; switch it off. The test never turned it on, so nothing was registered.
4. Open Finder, go to Applications and drag Homerow to the Trash.
5. Homerow works through Accessibility access. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security › Accessibility, select Homerow and click the minus button. The test did not grant this permission.

Where the data lives

Press Shift + Command + G in Finder to open each path. Skip any path that is not on your Mac.

A temporary cache for com.superultra.Homerow sits in your per-user cache folder (getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR prints it), and Mole removes it with the app.

Check the result

pgrep -il homerow
ls -ld "/Applications/Homerow.app" "$HOME/Library/Application Support/com.superultra.Homerow" "$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.superultra.Homerow.plist"

• No output from pgrep means no Homerow process is running, the launcher helper included. A printed line is a process that is still alive; quit it in Activity Monitor.
• A path printed by ls still exists. No such file or directory means the path is gone.

If you installed it with Homebrew

brew uninstall --cask homerow

The cask has no uninstall step, so this removes the app only. Its zap list names ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.superultra.HomerowLauncher, ~/Library/Application Support/com.superultra.Homerow, the caches, ~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.superultra.Homerow, the preferences file and the saved window state. Running brew uninstall --cask --zap homerow removes that whole list and does not read Mole's checkboxes. 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. Every Homerow row is selected by default, so for a Homebrew install Mole can use the zap when you leave them ticked.

License

Uninstalling does not release the activation by itself; unlink the Mac in Homerow's settings first, as above.

What Mole lists

Mole selects the app, the preferences file, ~/Library/Application Support/com.superultra.Homerow, ~/Library/Caches/com.superultra.Homerow, ~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.superultra.Homerow, the recent-documents list and the temporary cache. No row is left for review.

These defaults assume “Remove data and settings with apps” in General › Cleaning is off. Turning it on changes nothing for Homerow, since every row is already selected.

What this test covered

On October 20, 2026, the test downloaded Homerow 1.5.3 (universal) from the address the Homebrew cask uses, copied it to Applications without running brew install, opened it past the Gatekeeper prompt and removed it with a source-built Mole. Accessibility access and launch at login were left off, so the launcher helper was never registered. Mole moved six rows and the app to the Trash, and a search afterwards by product name and bundle id found nothing left. Status showed one Homerow row with 2 processes. Mole's update page read it as a Sparkle app; no update was run. A licensed copy, Accessibility access, launch at login, a Homebrew-managed uninstall and Mole's notarized release build were not tested.