Offloader overview

Offloader is a lightweight utility that frees up disk space by accelerating your iCloud Drive offloading.

Your Mac may wait days, weeks, longer—or never—to offload files, even when they’re safely stored in iCloud. Offloader steps in and gets it done faster.

You stay in control: choose how long files should remain unused before they’re eligible for offloading. Offloader will quietly scan your iCloud Drive folders on a schedule, identify safe-to-offload files, and trigger your Mac to remove local copies—freeing up space without deleting anything.

Key Features

Detects safe-to-offload files in your iCloud Drive
Custom delay timer: wait hours or days after last access before offloading
Periodic scans (e.g. every 6 hours or daily)
Session stats: “Scanned 4,218 items • 512 offloaded”
Minimal resource use — no menu bar icon, no interruptions
Private and secure – nothing leaves your Mac

How Does It Work?

Offloader uses safe, system-level APIs to proactively identify and offload files to iCloud Drive files that:

Have been uploaded to iCloud
Haven’t been used for a user-defined period
Are not pinned or recently opened

When found, Offloader asks the system to bookmark the local copy—exactly as macOS would eventually do on its own. The files remain in iCloud and are re-downloaded on demand, automatically when you access them.

Offloader does not move, delete, or modify your files. It simply accelerates the native offload process based on your preferences.

Set it once. Forget the clutter. Offloader takes care of the rest.