How to uninstall MacWhisper on Mac
MacWhisper keeps downloaded transcription models next to your settings, and those models can be much larger than the app itself. Decide whether to keep them before ticking that folder for removal. This covers the official download from MacWhisper's Gumroad page and the Homebrew cask macwhisper.
Quit MacWhisper and remove the app
- Quit MacWhisper from its application menu or Cmd+Q. No menu bar helper or login item was found registered for MacWhisper in testing.
- Find MacWhisper in Finder's Applications folder and move it to Trash.
MacWhisper also ships a Share Extension, the entry that appears in other apps' Share menu to send audio over for transcription. The extension keeps its own sandbox container, and an App Group container is shared between the app and the extension. Both are small, and neither goes away when you drag the app to the Trash.
Where the data lives
| Location | What it holds | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| ~/Library/Application Support/MacWhisper | Your settings plus any downloaded transcription models | Listed but not selected by default. Check its size before ticking it: models can be large and take time to download again. |
| ~/Library/Caches/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper | App cache | Selected by default. |
| ~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper | Network cache and cookies | Selected by default. |
| ~/Library/Preferences/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper.plist | App preferences | Selected by default. |
| ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper.savedState | Saved window state | Selected by default. |
| ~/Library/WebKit/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper | Embedded web view data | Selected by default. |
| ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper | The app's own scripting support folder | Selected by default. |
| ~/Library/Containers/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper.ShareExtension | The Share Extension's own sandbox container | Selected by default; macOS can refuse to move it, see below. |
| ~/Library/Group Containers/8Q7TMPA46J.group.com.goodsnooze.macwhisper.share | App Group container shared between the app and its Share Extension | Not selected; Mole keeps it when it cannot confirm that no other app uses the group. |
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 macwhisper cask's zap list includes ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper, ~/Library/Application Support/MacWhisper, ~/Library/Caches/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper, ~/Library/Containers/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper, two ~/Library/HTTPStorages entries, ~/Library/Preferences/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper.plist, ~/Library/Saved Application State/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper.savedState, and ~/Library/WebKit/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper. Because the Application Support folder holding your models is listed but not ticked, Mole leaves --zap out and removes only what you selected through its own deletion step. The cask also quits MacWhisper by bundle id before removing it, the same quit step described above.
To keep your models and remove only the app:
brew uninstall --cask macwhisper
Check the result
pgrep -il macwhisper
ls -d ~/Library/Application\ Support/MacWhisper
ls -d ~/Library/Containers/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper.ShareExtension
- No output from
pgrepmeans no MacWhisper process is running. ls -don Application Support printing the path means your settings and any downloaded models are still there, expected if you kept them.- "No such file or directory" for the Share Extension container means it is gone. If the path prints, macOS refused to move the sandbox container, which is what happened in this test; it holds no transcripts, and you can drag it to the Trash in Finder.
What Mole lists
For a MacWhisper app installed from the official download or the Homebrew cask:
~/Library/Caches/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper,~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper,~/Library/Preferences/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper.plist,~/Library/Saved Application State/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper.savedState,~/Library/WebKit/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper, and~/Library/Application Scripts/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisperare selected by default.~/Library/Application Support/MacWhisperis listed but not selected, because it holds your settings and downloaded models.- The Share Extension's container
~/Library/Containers/com.goodsnooze.MacWhisper.ShareExtensionis selected, because the extension's ID continues MacWhisper's own bundle ID. - The App Group container
8Q7TMPA46J.group.com.goodsnooze.macwhisper.shareis never selected. Its name is a shared group form rather than MacWhisper's owngroup.<bundle ID>, and Mole keeps it whenever it cannot confirm that no other app uses the group.
What this test covered
On September 21, 2026, MacWhisper 15.1.1 was downloaded from its official Gumroad page and uninstalled with Mole Preview build 282, with Full Disk Access granted, after every item was selected for removal. The app, its 129.3 MB Application Support folder, caches, HTTP storage and its own Application Scripts folder went to the Trash. The Share Extension's container stayed because macOS refused to move it (error 513), and Mole kept the App Group container as protected. This test does not show what happens when the Application Support folder is left in its normal, unticked default state, since it was selected for this run. Model downloads and transcription were not tested.