How to uninstall Infuse on Mac

Infuse comes from the Mac App Store and keeps its local data in its own sandboxed container. Firecore's staff describe a full reset on the Mac as two steps: delete the app, then delete that data folder. Anything Infuse stored in iCloud is a separate matter that removing the app does not touch. These steps cover the App Store version of Infuse.

Remove the app

  1. Quit Infuse.
  2. In Finder's Applications folder, or in Launchpad, move Infuse to the Trash.
  3. If you want a clean reset rather than a reinstall, also remove its data folder from the table below, as Firecore's reset instructions describe. If you once ran an Infuse beta, that post notes there can be a second data folder to remove.

Where Infuse keeps its data

Press Shift + Command + G in Finder and open each path that exists.

Location What it holds What to do
~/Library/Containers/com.firecore.infuse Infuse's local data; Finder may show this folder as Infuse Remove it for a clean reset; keep it if you plan to reinstall and want your local state back
~/Library/Application Scripts/com.firecore.infuse Scripts folder for the app Remove with the app
~/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.firecore.infuse Apple's iCloud sync cache for Infuse Safe to remove

Removing these local folders does not delete anything Infuse keeps in iCloud. Firecore handles deleting iCloud data in a separate support article, linked from the reset post above.

Check the result

pgrep -il infuse
mdfind "kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier == 'com.firecore.infuse'"
ls -d ~/Library/Containers/com.firecore.infuse
  • No output from pgrep means Infuse is not running. A listed process means it is still open; quit it before deleting data.
  • No output from mdfind means Spotlight finds no remaining copy of the app; a path in the output is a copy still on disk.
  • ls -d printing the path means the container is still there. "No such file or directory" means it is gone.

Account and subscription

Removing Infuse does not cancel an Infuse Pro subscription bought through the App Store. Manage or cancel it from the Subscriptions section of your Apple Account.

What Mole lists

For the App Store version of Infuse, Mole selects by default the container, the Application Scripts folder, the CloudKit cache, Infuse's Recent Documents record and the temporary caches macOS keeps for it under /private/var/folders, including those of its web views. Mole never lists or removes iCloud Drive content.

What this test covered

Infuse 8.5.5 from the Mac App Store was first uninstalled on September 21, 2026, with Mole 1.15.0 build 282, without ticking the review rows. The app, its Application Scripts folder and its temporary cache went to the Trash, while macOS refused to move the 4.4 MB container and one web view temporary cache to the Trash, so both stayed on disk. On September 26, 2026, at the maintainer's request, Infuse was reinstalled and uninstalled again with a development build of Mole: Status showed one Infuse row covering four processes at 77 MB, every listed row was selected, all nine items went to the Trash, and a follow-up check found none of them left on disk. No new login item appeared in either run, and the update channel was the App Store. iCloud sync and Infuse Pro were not tested.