Desktop Inspector at Mac App Store analyse

App power index: 100 (based on ranks around App Stores today)
Utilities Utilities
Developer: AsramSoftware
Price: 0 free
Current version: 1.1.9, last update: 3 months ago
First release : 15 Apr 2011
App size: 0 Bytes
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Estimation application downloads and cost

> 2.2k
Monthly downloads
~ $ 900
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The main purpose of Desktop Inspector is to detect whether, on the Desktop or in any other location, there are unknown invisible items, i.e. files or folders you created unwillingly or by accident, or were created by a third-party software.
Third-party-installed invisible items are usually necessary for a given software to work, although they may also have been planted to act as a malware.

Invisible items (i.e. folders and files) are shown with different icons: friendly (smiley) icons refer to invisible system-files and folders, while exclamatory icons refer to unknown invisible items. In order not to compromise the computer’s expected behavior, ‘friendly’ items by default may not be moved to trash, while unknown invisible ones may be moved to trash. Only enabling the relevant option in the Preferences, ‘friendly’ items too can be moved to trash.
Yet the application, by itself, does not know the names of all the system-files and folders, and obviously does not know which unknown invisible item has been created by a ‘honest’ third-party software. When in doubt, through the ‘Look Up’ function (available right-clicking an item), the name of the selected item will be searched online for you to get an idea about it. Then, should you consider it a friendly one, you can add its name to the internal database.

Of each element, the application shows the Operating Systems own description and part of its content in computer language.
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Available in countries
Country Price
Canada 9.99 CAD
China 48 CNY
France 7.99 EUR
Germany 7.99 EUR
Italy 7.99 EUR
Netherlands 7.99 EUR
Portugal 7.99 EUR
Spain 7.99 EUR
Poland 7.99 EUR
UK 6.99 GBP
India 699 INR
Japan 1000 JPY
Korea, Republic Of 9900 KRW
Poland 39.99 PLN
Russia 599 RUB
Turkey 249.99 TRY
USA 6.99 USD
Korea, Republic Of 7.69 USD
Ukraine 7.99 USD
Available for devices
MacDesktop,

Latest version Desktop Inspector: 1.1.9

Universal built that among other bugs fixes an issue affecting "silicon" users. Therefore tha app now can correctly set and re-use "security scoped bookmarks".

Apps Changes History:
  • 3 months ago: New App Version 1.1.7 ☛ 1.1.9