Watch any folder
Each watched folder gets its own ruleset. Add or remove folders any time. Rakho only sees what you grant.
Menu bar app for macOS
One icon in your menu bar. A cleaner Mac.
Rakho lives at the top of your screen. It watches the folders that get messy: Downloads, Desktop, screenshots — and queues clutter behind a single click. Nothing leaves your Mac without your say-so.
01
You decide what to watch
Add folders that collect clutter: Downloads, Desktop, screenshots, exports. Rakho only ever touches the folders you pick.
02
Rules surface the noise
Combine conditions — kind, extension, name, age, size — into rules that match real-world clutter.
03
You approve before anything moves
Matched files queue up in the menu bar. Trash, move, or dismiss with one click. And auto-timer trashes. Nothing leaves your control.
Before & After
From clutter to calm.
Rakho turns the bottom of your Downloads folder into something you'd actually want to look at.
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vacation-2024.zip
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Slack-4.36.dmg
resume-final-FINAL.pdf
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screen-recording.mov
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Figma.dmg
contract-v3.pdf
photos-may.zip
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demo.mp4
invoice-april.pdf
archive.tar.gz
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Notion.dmg
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notes.txt
walk-through.mov
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backup-2024.zip
tax-2025.pdf
- Photos 38 items
- Screenshots 21 items
- Installers 12 items
- Documents 18 items
- Archives 7 items
- Loose files 0 items
Features
Powerful enough to be useful. Quiet enough to forget.
Compound rules, smart templates, AI suggestions, live previews — Rakho gives you serious cleanup tooling without making cleanup feel like a chore.
Compound rules
Combine conditions with AND. “Images older than 30 days containing ‘screenshot’” is just three clicks.
File-kind matching
Match by category instead of guessing extensions. Pick Images, Videos, Installers, Archives and Rakho handles the rest.
Multi-value lists
Use comma-separated lists for OR matches: png, jpg, heic or screenshot, IMG_ — no regex required.
Live match preview
As you build a rule, Rakho counts how many existing files would match. Save with confidence.
AI Assistant
Connect your own OpenAI or Claude key. Rakho proposes rules based on your folder’s metadata — never file contents.
Auto-trash timers
Optional per rule. Queue today, auto-trash in 24h, a week, or a month. Cancel any item before it fires.
Approval queue
Matches land in the menu bar with one-tap approve / dismiss. Bulk-approve when you’re ready.
Activity log
Every action — queued, approved, trashed, declined — recorded locally. Export to plain text any time.
Templates
Start from a recipe. Tweak in seconds.
Eight pre-built rules cover the noisiest corners of a typical Mac. Each one’s a starting point — change the conditions, action, or destination before you save.
Sort screenshots
Move PNGs whose name starts with Screenshot into a Screenshots folder.
- Name contains
- Extension
- Move
Trash old downloads
Anything in Downloads older than 30 days auto-trashes after a week in the queue.
- Older than
- Auto-trash
Sort installers
Move .dmg, .pkg, .iso installers into an Installers folder.
- Kind: Installers
- Move
Organize videos
Pull MP4, MOV, and MKV files into a Videos folder so the desktop stays calm.
- Kind: Videos
- Move
File PDFs
Move PDFs into a Documents folder, with a one-week safety queue.
- Extension
- Move
Big file alert
Queue anything larger than 200 MB for manual review — no auto-action.
- Larger than 200 MB
Archive zips
Move .zip, .tar, .7z into an Archives folder.
- Kind: Archives
- Move
Trash old screenshots
Auto-trash Screenshot PNGs older than a week — they’re almost always one-offs.
- Name contains
- Older than
- Auto-trash
AI Assistant
Smart suggestions. Your wallet.
Drop in your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key. Rakho sends a metadata snapshot — never file contents — and turns it into rule proposals you can accept, tweak, or dismiss.
- ✓ Bring your own key — billed directly by the provider.
- ✓ Roughly
$0.001per scan. No subscription. - ✓ Skip the key entirely and use the local pattern-matcher.
- ✓ Every suggestion is reviewed by you before it becomes a rule.
Privacy
Designed to disappear if you want it to.
Rakho was built around the idea that cleanup tools are only useful if you trust them. Here’s what that means in practice.
Your files never leave your Mac.
Trash, move, queue — every action runs locally with macOS APIs. No cloud, no upload, no telemetry.
AI only sees metadata.
Filenames, extensions, sizes, dates. That’s it. File contents are never read or transmitted, ever.
Clear everything, any time.
The Data & Privacy panel lets you wipe rules, the queue, the activity log, your API key, and folder bookmarks — separately or together.
Nothing deletes silently.
Even with auto-trash enabled, files sit in the queue first. You can always pull them back before the timer fires.
FAQ
Common questions.
Does Rakho actually delete files?
Only when you ask it to. Every match goes to a review queue first. Even with the “auto-trash” option enabled, files sit in the queue until the timer you chose elapses — and you can rescue any of them with one click before that.
Do I need an API key for the AI features?
No. Without a key, Rakho falls back to a local pattern-matcher that proposes rules based on common file types. The cloud option is opt-in and uses your own OpenAI or Anthropic key.
What data gets sent to the AI provider?
A summary of your folder’s metadata: filenames, extensions, sizes, dates. No file contents. No images, documents, or text bodies are read or transmitted.
How much does Rakho cost?
The app itself is free. If you use the cloud AI option, you pay your provider directly — roughly $0.001 per folder scan with Claude, $0.002 with OpenAI.
Where does Rakho store its data?
Everything (rules, queue, activity log, AI key, folder bookmarks) lives in standard macOS user preferences on your machine. There is no remote storage and no account to create.
Which macOS versions does it support?
Rakho is built with SwiftUI and runs on macOS Sonoma (14) and later. Both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs are supported.
What's in a name
रखो
رکھو
"rakho"
To keep. To set aside.
Rakho is Hindi and Urdu for "to keep" or "to put aside" — the gentlest possible verb for what this app does. Files you want, kept where they belong. Files you don't, quietly tucked away until you say otherwise.
Get started in two minutes.
Add a folder, pick a template, and you’re done. Rakho takes it from there — quietly.
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · Free