Hazel for macOS

What is Hazel?

Hazel watches folders on your Mac and processes files according to rules you create. It is useful for recurring filing work: sorting downloaded movies, moving bills into folders or keeping the desktop organized. Conditions can use a file’s name, date, type or originating website, while actions can move, rename, tag, archive or upload matching files.

The rule editor combines conditions with a sequence of actions. For example, the publisher’s screenshot shows a movie rule that matches a filename pattern, adds a tag, renames the file and sorts it into a release-year subfolder. Hazel also integrates with macOS tools including Spotlight, Shortcuts, AppleScript and Automator. Its App Sweep feature can offer to remove support files when you move an application to the Trash.

This download resolves to Hazel 6.1.2, which requires macOS 13 Ventura or later. Evaluation lasts 14 days and excludes rule export; the subsequent demo is limited to one monitored folder and two active rules, with import and export disabled. A purchased license unlocks the full feature set. Trash features require Full Disk Access. Screenshots include the publisher’s rule editor and an explicitly older App Sweep interface; they are not evidence of a hands-on test of this release.

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