Version 1.4.0 Latest
A major accuracy release, following a full audit of every tab. The malware scan now looks inside hidden folders, tells you when macOS blocked it from a location instead of reporting a clean result, and no longer claims files were downloaded from the internet unless they were. Startup Items reads a job's whole command line, so a script that downloads and runs code is rated as the threat it is. App Leftovers only offers files it can prove belong to an app that is gone. Duplicate detection compares whole files before calling anything a copy, and ignores project dependency folders. Restoring a quarantined item puts back exactly the file that was moved. System Storage explains itself in plain English, and Sentinel AI's answers are formatted properly throughout. Licence seats are now tied to each Mac rather than its name, so renaming a Mac no longer takes a seat.
Version 1.3.3
Fixes the File Check tab, which rendered as an empty pane. It now matches the rest of the app: the whole panel is a drop target, so you can drag a file anywhere onto the window to check it, and results appear in the same card style used everywhere else.
Version 1.3.2
The real logo. The app icon, the mark in the sidebar and every favicon on the website are now generated from the actual brand artwork rather than an approximation drawn in code. The website also gains a social preview image, so links to shadowsentinel.com unfurl properly in Messages, Slack and on social platforms.
Version 1.3.1
Light mode. Settings now has an Appearance control with Light, Dark and System — System follows your Mac and changes with it. The switch is immediate, with no restart, and every screen adapts: on light backgrounds the brand cyan is replaced by a deeper teal, because cyan on white is unreadable.
Version 1.3.0
App Leftovers now finds what it was missing. It searched five folders while the uninstaller searched twelve, so anything living in Containers, Group Containers or Application Scripts never appeared — and only reverse-DNS names were ever judged, which is why Adobe showed up and almost nothing else did. Both now share one list of 24 locations, and plain-named folders are matched against installed apps properly. On a real Mac this took findings from a handful to 147.
System Storage now measures your disk instead of checking a list of known paths. It maps roughly three quarters of your used space as named items and explains the rest: the gap between what the filesystem says is in use and what any file browser can see is APFS snapshots and purgeable space, and that gap is what "System Data" actually means. Analysis reports live progress and can be stopped.
New File Check tab: drop in any single file — a download, an installer, an app — and get a verdict from the same detection the full scan uses, with its code signature and SHA-256. Free to use.
Malware scans can now be stopped, and a stopped scan says its results are partial rather than implying the disk is clean.
Files owned by the system, which quarantine used to fail on entirely, can now be revealed in Finder or removed with administrator rights. Elevated removals still go to the Trash, so nothing becomes unrecoverable just because a password was involved.
Version 1.2.0
Shadow Sentinel now runs on a 7-day free trial. Scanning stays open to everyone — install it, scan, and see every finding with its location and severity before deciding anything. Sentinel AI verdicts, quarantine and the full cleanup suite are part of the subscription. Sentinel Pro adds deep analysis, auto-quarantine, scheduled background scans and coverage for up to 5 Macs. Also: a redesigned website, and the app's notifications and reports no longer use emoji.