How to uninstall KuGou Music (酷狗音乐) on Mac
If you downloaded songs with 酷狗音乐 (KuGou Music), find them before you remove the app. The test downloaded nothing, so it does not show where KuGou saves them; search Finder for the title of a song you know you downloaded, and copy the ones you want to keep out of ~/Library. The app's sandbox container, ~/Library/Containers/com.kugou.mac.Music, was 2.3 MB after one launch without signing in, and Mole selects it by default. Your KuGou account, playlists and any membership stay with KuGou; removing the app does not cancel a membership, and one bought through the App Store is cancelled there, as Apple's subscription page describes. This guide covers KuGou Music from the Mac App Store.
Quit KuGou and remove the app
- Quit 酷狗音乐 from its menu. In the test Mole's Status page showed it as one row of five processes, about 127 MB: the app itself and four macOS services it had started, which quit with it.
- Move 酷狗音乐 from Applications to the Trash, as described in Apple's Delete or uninstall apps on Mac. macOS may ask for your password, since App Store apps are installed by the system.
The test showed no login item, background item or launch agent for it. You can download it again later from your App Store purchases.
Where KuGou keeps its data
| Location | What it holds | What to do |
|---|---|---|
~/Library/Containers/com.kugou.mac.Music |
The app's sandbox container, 2.3 MB in the test | Check it for downloaded songs first, then remove it with the app |
~/Library/Application Scripts/com.kugou.mac.Music |
An empty scripts folder macOS makes for sandboxed apps | Remove with the app |
Folders named com.kugou.mac.Music in your per-user cache and temporary folders |
Temporary caches, including WebKit's | Safe to remove; macOS manages these folders |
Check the result
pgrep -lf 酷狗音乐.app
ls -d ~/Library/Containers/com.kugou.mac.Music ~/Library/Application\ Scripts/com.kugou.mac.Music
ls -d "$(getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)"*kugou* "$TMPDIR"*kugou*
- No output from
pgrepmeans KuGou is not running. A line means it is still open; quit it first. - For the second command, "No such file or directory" means that folder is gone. A printed path is still on disk.
- The third command looks in the per-user cache and temporary folders. "No matches found" or "No such file or directory" means nothing named after KuGou is left there. Printed WebKit folders are temporary caches; leaving them does no harm.
What Mole lists
For 酷狗音乐 from the Mac App Store:
~/Library/Containers/com.kugou.mac.Musicand~/Library/Application Scripts/com.kugou.mac.Musicare selected by default. The container is the only place in this list that could hold anything of yours, so check it before you remove it.- Four temporary cache folders named after
com.kugou.mac.Musicin your per-user cache folder, three of them WebKit's, are selected by default. - Mole identifies KuGou's update channel as the App Store.
What this test covered
On September 26, 2026, 酷狗音乐 20.3.8 was installed from the Mac App Store, opened once without signing in, and uninstalled with a development build of Mole with every row ticked. The app, 585.8 MB, and all six listed rows went to the Trash, including the 2.3 MB container, and none of the paths it wrote on first launch was left. A search by name afterwards still found three WebKit folders for it in the per-user temporary folder, which were not among the rows Mole listed in that run. No login item or launch agent appeared before or after. Earlier, on September 21, 2026, it was removed with Mole 1.15 Preview build 282: the app, its Application Scripts folder and its temporary cache went to the Trash, while the container and the WebKit temporary folders failed with a permission error. No song was downloaded or played, and no account or membership was used.