Frequently Asked Questions About AppAudit

AppAudit is a Mac utility that helps you understand what is installed on your Mac. It scans application bundles, highlights duplicates and review notices, and gives you tools to organize, inspect, and review what you find.

AppAudit is useful for both technical and nontechnical Mac users. It is especially helpful if you are cleaning up an older Mac, preparing for a migration, reviewing duplicates, or trying to build a clearer inventory of your installed apps.

Download AppAudit, run a scan, and review the results in the app inventory. You can start with AppAudit Free and upgrade later if you want access to deeper inspection, export, and comparison tools.

No. AppAudit does not require an account for its core inventory and review workflows. Pro features are unlocked with a license key and licensed email in the same app.

Yes. AppAudit Free and AppAudit Pro use the same app download. Pro simply unlocks additional features inside the same installed app.

Yes. AppAudit Free includes practical inventory, duplicate detection, notes, lists, search, sorting, and core filters. It is a real working utility, not just a limited preview.

AppAudit Pro unlocks the Advanced workbench, copy-by-copy inspection, advanced filters, export tools, comparison workflows, review tracking, and deeper app-review actions like Verify Signature and Inspect Security Profile. It is designed for users who want a more complete audit workflow.

AppAudit Free helps you understand what is installed and organize what matters. AppAudit Pro adds deeper visibility, more precise filtering, richer exports, comparison tools, and copy-level inspection that go beyond the shared core features.

Yes. You can use AppAudit Free right away. Some advanced areas are visible as previews so you can understand what Pro adds before upgrading.

You upgrade by unlocking Pro in the same AppAudit app with a valid license key and licensed email. There is no separate Pro download.

AppAudit Consultant is a version of AppAudit built for consultants and trusted tech helpers who support other people’s Macs. It includes everything in AppAudit Pro, then adds customer-license workflows for guided, time-limited access during real support sessions.

AppAudit Consultant is for people who help clients, family members, or small teams review, troubleshoot, migrate, and clean up their Macs. It is designed for short-term support situations where deeper AppAudit tools are useful without requiring a permanent Pro upgrade for the customer.

Yes. AppAudit Consultant includes everything in AppAudit Pro. It then adds customer-license workflows that are specifically meant for support-oriented use.

Temporary customer access means a customer can receive time-limited AppAudit Pro access for a support engagement. When that access period ends, it returns to the normal free experience instead of remaining a permanent Pro upgrade.

AppAudit scans installed .app bundles and related app metadata available through its audit workflow. Its goal is to help you build a clearer inventory of what is installed on your Mac.

No. Scanning is read-only. AppAudit builds an inventory and review context, but it does not modify applications during the scan process.

Yes, when macOS exposes their paths. This helps AppAudit catch apps that may not be obvious in a manual review.

Yes. AppAudit Pro can scan beyond standard local locations by including places like Cloud Storage, iCloud Documents, and attached volumes.

Yes. AppAudit lets you cancel a scan and keep the results already collected.

You will see an inventory of discovered apps, a summary of totals, and helpful review signals such as duplicates, architecture, notices, and saved list counts.

AppAudit groups multiple discovered copies of the same application under a primary app row. This makes the main inventory easier to understand while still surfacing duplicate counts and review signals.

Yes. AppAudit Free shows that duplicates exist and highlights them through counts, filters, row signals, and notices. AppAudit Pro goes further by allowing deeper copy-by-copy inspection.

AppAudit Pro lets you inspect each discovered copy of an app individually. That includes details such as location, architecture, bundle information, and related metadata for each copy.

AppAudit can show the app path, version, dates, size, copy count, review notices, notes, list membership, and architecture information. Pro includes deeper technical metadata and richer copy-level context.

Yes. AppAudit includes notes and list workflows so you can mark apps to keep, review, reinstall, or clean up later.

Yes. AppAudit includes search, sorting, and core filters in Free, with more advanced filters available in Pro.

AppAudit is designed as a local-first tool. Scan data, notes, lists, and review work stay on your Mac unless you choose to export something.

Yes, core workflows are designed to work without requiring an internet connection.

Yes. AppAudit is built to help you understand what is installed before you take action. It is focused on visibility, review, and controlled workflows rather than automatic cleanup.

System Permissions Review is a built-in AppAudit guidance feature that explains relevant macOS Privacy & Security permissions in plain language. It helps users understand which permissions are recommended, which are optional, and when broader scan coverage may need additional access.

No. AppAudit can still provide useful inventory and review value without every possible macOS permission. Some broader scan locations or deeper review situations may benefit from additional access, but AppAudit is designed to explain that clearly instead of assuming users should grant everything.

Yes. AppAudit includes guidance to explain why a permission may appear, whether it is recommended or optional, and where to find the matching macOS Settings area if you want to allow it.

No. AppAudit does not automatically remove apps. Pro includes guarded cleanup-related actions for eligible apps, but the product is built around informed review and user control.

AppAudit Pro includes a guarded Move to Trash workflow for eligible app bundles. Safety checks help prevent risky actions against open, protected, or ineligible targets.

No. AppAudit is not built around AI features or cloud-based AI processing. Its core job is to scan and help you review what is installed on your Mac using local inventory, filtering, organization, and audit tools rather than generative AI workflows.

Yes. AppAudit shows architecture information so you can understand whether an app is native to Apple Silicon, Universal, or Intel-only.

Yes. AppAudit Pro supports deeper search across fields such as notes, bundle IDs, paths, classifications, and related metadata.

Verify Signature helps AppAudit Pro users review code-signing and distribution-trust signals for a selected app. It is designed to present that information in a clearer, more readable way than raw technical output alone.

Inspect Security Profile helps AppAudit Pro users review entitlements, hardened runtime signals, and other declared security context for a selected app. It is meant to make deeper app review more understandable without requiring users to parse every technical detail manually.

Some local or developer-signed builds can still be validly signed without looking the same as a fully distributed notarized release. AppAudit surfaces that distinction so users can better understand what they are reviewing instead of relying on a single oversimplified label.

Yes. AppAudit Pro supports CSV export, and in Advanced mode it also supports Markdown audit reports and JSON audit snapshots.

The Compare Workspace helps you compare the current Mac and/or saved AppAudit snapshots to see what was added, removed, updated, moved, or otherwise changed.

Grouped view keeps the main inventory simpler by treating related copies as one app group. Copy-level inspection in Pro lets you drill into each discovered copy individually.

Use the Contact page form for support requests, pre-sales questions, bug reports, feedback, and general comments.

It helps to include your AppAudit version, macOS version, what you were trying to do, and what happened. For bugs, clear reproduction steps are especially useful.

Use the Contact form and choose the support or bug-report option. Include as much detail as you can so the issue is easier to understand and reproduce.

Use the Contact page for pre-sales questions about AppAudit, including edition differences, purchasing, and fit for your workflow.