Tidy updates itself. This page is here so you can read what arrived before you let it.
2.4
Current
24 August 2026
Two of the three new things here were asked for by the same person, who sends ideas and marks them "not homework". They were homework.
- Collect loose folders. Downloads fills up with folders as well as files — "Version 1", "Test", "Project XY" — and Tidy never touched them, because moving a folder moves everything inside it without looking. Now you can ask it to show you what it would collect. Tidy looks inside each one, proposes the ones where nothing has changed in a number of days you choose, and tells you how many items each holds. You tick the ones you want. It never proposes a folder that one of your rules uses as a destination, and one click undoes the lot.
- Stage mode is yours to configure. It used to be all or nothing. Now you choose what it hides: Desktop icons, widgets, the Dock, or any combination. It arrives set exactly as it behaved before, so if you liked it as it was, nothing changes. The Dock option sets it to hide automatically — still there when you reach for it, out of the screen you're sharing.
- Your licence carries your name. Your access code now has your email address signed inside it, and Tidy shows it at the bottom of the panel. It also travels in the support email, so you never have to remember which address you bought with. Codes issued before today keep working exactly as they did.
And two fixes that matter more than they sound:
- The search shortcut said "Espacio" in every language but Spanish. Since 2.2. A user spotted it in German and thought it was something small on his machine; it was on every English, German, French and Portuguese install. It now says Space, Leertaste, Espace and Espaço.
- Notices tell the truth, and there are fewer of them. If a batch failed completely, Tidy used to show a green tick reading "Plan applied · 0 files". It now says what actually happened. And a run of six files used to fire seven notices that overwrote each other — six interruptions, one message you could read. They're grouped into one.
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