Product / the bet

For the drives you’ve been avoiding.

SupaDupa is a local-first Mac app for overloaded drives, duplicate files, and folders you stopped opening. See what’s there. Clean up with confidence. Nothing leaves your Mac.

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  • Live
  • For cluttered Macs
  • Local-first

The problem

Storage got cheap. Deciding what matters got harder.

Keeping everything felt easier than deciding — so the folders piled up. The problem was never only disk space. It was the loss of understanding.

The bet

Private files deserve local intelligence.

The files on your Mac are too personal to treat cloud upload as the default. SupaDupa does as much as possible on the machine itself, shows you what it found, and lets you decide what happens next.

  1. 01

    See first

    Scan a folder or drive before changing anything.

  2. 02

    Clean safely

    Preview duplicates, moves, renames and cleanup.

  3. 03

    Keep it private

    Personal files stay on the Mac.

The product

Free does the looking. Pro does the cleaning.

Free

  • Scan a folder
  • Find exact duplicates
  • Search by name, type, size, date
  • Browse files & media
  • No card required

Pro · $49 once

  • Auto-tag photos & screenshots
  • Find near-duplicates
  • Rename by content in progress
  • Preview moves first
  • Watch drives on plug-in
  • OCR & transcript search coming next

Why this exists here

A small product about a bigger belief.

Find a system people tolerate because it feels too messy to fix — then build something that gives them clarity and control.

  1. Clarity

    Show the drive before asking you to act.

  2. Control

    Preview and decide, never automate blindly.

  3. Privacy

    Local work, because the files are personal.

Origin

Built from years of digital clutter.

I built SupaDupa because I had the same problem: years of photos, videos, screenshots, and external drives I kept avoiding. A folder full of IMG_0042.jpg tells you almost nothing. I wanted software that could look inside the mess and make old folders useful again.

Privacy

No account just to scan your own files.

Scan locally, preview before acting, and never turn personal storage into another cloud dependency. Pay once, not another subscription.

Current stage

Status
Live · macOS 13+
Hardware
Best on Apple Silicon
Pricing
Free + Pro · $49 once

Build notes

The decisions behind SupaDupa.

Start with why it exists — then read how it got built.

More from the build

Start with the drive you’ve been avoiding.

Download SupaDupa for free, scan a folder, and see what’s actually there before you delete or move anything.

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