How to uninstall Task Manager TMOG on Mac

Task Manager TMOG is a system monitor for Mac, Windows and Linux from tmog.org, with a free edition and an optional paid TMOG Pro. The free app keeps little: a preferences file, a temporary cache and an empty TMOG folder in Application Support. The one thing worth handling first is a Pro license. Per TMOG's privacy page, activating stores a signed entitlement at ~/Library/Application Support/TMOG/license.json, and choosing Deactivate License… in the app removes it and releases the seat so another computer can use it. Do that before you remove the app: the page describes Deactivate License… as the step that contacts the licensing service, and deleting the file alone does not. This guide covers the disk image from tmog.org and the Homebrew cask task-manager-tmog.

Quit and remove the app

1. If you activated Pro, open the app and choose Deactivate License… first. You need to be online for the seat to be released.
2. If you use the Flight Recorder, copy out any .tmogtrace file you want to keep. TMOG's home page says the Flight Recorder (marked Pro) saves traces in that format; the test did not record one, so the app's save location was not checked.
3. Quit Task Manager TMOG with Command + Q. In the test it ran as one row with 4 processes in Mole's Status page: the app plus Apple's Metal and VideoToolbox services it called.
4. Open Finder, go to Applications and drag Task Manager TMOG to the Trash.

The app contains a helper named TMOG Hotkey. After the first launch in the test no login item or launch agent had been registered. If you turned on anything that starts it with your Mac, check System Settings › General › Login Items & Extensions.

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 'Task Manager|TMOG'
ls -d /Applications/Task\ Manager\ TMOG.app "$HOME/Library/Application Support/TMOG" "$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.tmog.taskmanager.plist"

• No output from pgrep means TMOG is not running. A printed line is a process still alive; quit it first.
• For ls -d, No such file or directory means that path is gone. A printed path is still on disk. A preferences file can be written again as the app quits, so check after it has quit; in the test it came back once and Mole moved it again.

If you installed it with Homebrew

brew uninstall --cask task-manager-tmog

The cask has no uninstall step, so this removes the app only. Its zap list trashes ~/Library/Application Support/TMOG, which holds license.json, and the preferences file. A direct brew uninstall --cask --zap task-manager-tmog therefore deletes the license file without contacting the licensing service, and does not read Mole's checkboxes. Mole adds --zap only when its whole removal scope passes its zap gate (unchecked or shared paths, paths outside the reviewed boundary, unknown stanzas or unsupported directives suppress it) and otherwise removes the rows you selected itself. The Homebrew install was not tested.

What Mole lists

Mole selects the app, the preferences file and the temporary cache row. It lists ~/Library/Application Support/TMOG for review and selects it by default when eligible, so deactivate Pro before you confirm. Status shows Task Manager TMOG as one row. Mole found no update channel for it.

What this test covered

On November 9, 2026, TMOG-Task-Manager-1.1.0-20261026015153-macOS-universal.dmg from tmog.org, whose checksum matched the Homebrew cask, was copied to Applications on a test Mac without running brew install and opened once. It was removed with a source-built Mole with every review row ticked. Mole asked the app to quit and moved the app and 3 rows to the Trash with no failures; the preferences file came back after the uninstall and Mole moved it again, and a rescan then found nothing left. Status showed one row with 4 processes. No Pro license was activated, so Deactivate License…, Flight Recorder, the screensaver bundled in the app, the Homebrew install and Mole's notarized release build were not tested.