How to uninstall Radix on Mac

Radix is a free disk space analyzer by Colin Kim, from tryradix.app and its GitHub project. It scans folders and volumes, compares scans over time and has a Discard Pile where you collect items before deciding whether to move them to the Trash. Nothing you scanned or collected is changed by removing Radix. The only things worth keeping are scan snapshots you exported yourself: the README says Radix saves completed scans as .radixscan files, and those stay wherever you saved them. It also says usage stats and recent scan history are stored locally on your Mac, and the test found no data folder for them beyond the rows below. This guide covers the zip from the project's GitHub release and the Homebrew cask radix.

Quit and remove the app

1. Export any scan you want to reopen later as a .radixscan file, and check that the file sits outside the app.
2. Quit Radix with Command + Q.
3. Open Finder, go to Applications and drag Radix to the Trash.
4. If you gave Radix Full Disk Access to scan protected folders, open System Settings › Privacy & Security › Full Disk Access and remove the Radix entry. Mole does not edit macOS permission lists.

Radix registered no login item or launch agent in the test.

Where the data lives

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

Check the result

pgrep -il radix
ls -d /Applications/Radix.app "$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.colinkim.Radix.plist" "$HOME/Library/Caches/com.colinkim.Radix" "$HOME/Library/HTTPStorages/com.colinkim.Radix"

• No output from pgrep means Radix is not running. A printed line names a process still alive; quit it, or restart the Mac once.
• For ls -d, "No such file or directory" means that path is gone. A printed path is still on disk.

If you installed it with Homebrew

brew uninstall --cask radix

The cask has no uninstall step beyond removing the app. Its zap list trashes the cache, HTTPStorages folder, preferences file and saved state listed above, all inside ~/Library and none of them user documents, but brew uninstall --cask --zap radix does not read Mole's checkboxes. Mole adds --zap only when its whole removal scope passes its zap gate: every zap path is inside ~/Library, none touches a row you left unchecked, and every path that exists is a row Mole listed. Otherwise Mole leaves --zap off and removes the rows you selected itself.

What Mole lists

Mole selects the app, the preferences file, the cache, the HTTPStorages folder and the temporary cache row. Before removing, Mole asks Radix to quit. Status shows Radix as one row, and the update page reads Radix's Sparkle feed.

What this test covered

On November 9, 2026, on a second Mac running macOS 26, the test took Radix 1.8.0 (Universal) from the project's GitHub release zip, whose checksum matched the Homebrew cask radix, copied it to Applications without running brew install, opened it once and removed it with a source-built, re-signed Debug build of Mole with every review row ticked. Mole's notarized release build was not used. Mole asked the running app to quit and moved the app and 4 rows to the Trash, nothing failed, and a rescan found no Radix path left. Status showed one Radix row with 1 process. Mole detected a Sparkle update feed, and no update was run. Scanning, exporting a .radixscan file, the Full Disk Access entry, Homebrew and Mole's notarized release build were not tested.