VaultSort 2.0 Is Here
This is the release we've been building toward.
VaultSort 2.0 introduces three major new features — Advanced Organization, Space Saver, and Operation Log — alongside Scheduled Jobs, a powerful automation system that runs your rules even when VaultSort isn't open.
It's the biggest update in VaultSort's history. Here's what's new.
Advanced Organization — A Rule Engine That Thinks in Trees, Not Lists
Most file automation tools force you to build rules as flat checklists. One condition after another. "If all of these match, do this." Want nested logic? Good luck chaining sub-rules and hoping execution order doesn't betray you.
VaultSort takes a fundamentally different approach.
Advanced Organization models every rule as an Abstract Syntax Tree — the same data structure used by compilers and query engines. AND, OR, NOT — nested to any depth, in a single rule. No sub-rules. No duplication. No guessing about priority.
What this means in practice:
A rule like "Move files that are (PDFs AND older than 30 days) OR (images AND larger than 10MB AND NOT in a folder named 'Portfolio') to an Archive folder" — that's one rule. One visual graph. Readable, testable, undoable.
The Visual Rule Builder replaces static checkbox UIs with a node-based canvas. Drag predicates into logic nodes. See explicit branches for OR conditions. Get live match counts on every node. The UI enforces structural correctness — you literally cannot build an invalid rule.
Full boolean logic with NOT predicates. Because the AST supports arbitrary AND/OR/NOT nesting, you can build rules like "organize everything in Downloads AND NOT files in a subfolder named _active" — as a single, readable expression. No sub-rules. No fragile priority ordering. Granular exclusions are part of the rule itself.
Dry Run & Visual Diff shows you every file that would move, the exact source → destination mapping, and the specific rule path responsible — before anything executes. Select any file and VaultSort highlights the exact decision path through your rule graph.
Full Transaction Log & Undo. Every execution is recorded. Every file operation is reversible with one click. No more "which rule moved my file?" mysteries.
And the engine behind all of it is parallel Rust, scanning directories with a hybrid Spotlight + parallel crawler + FSEvents strategy that processes large folders orders of magnitude faster than sequential alternatives.
If you've ever used Hazel — or spent time searching for a modern alternative — this is what you've been waiting for. Hazel pioneered rule-based file automation on macOS, but its sequential execution, flat condition lists, opaque debugging, and limited undo belong to a different era. Advanced Organization is a generational leap: a faster engine, a more expressive rule model, a visual builder that prevents invalid rules by design, and full transparency into every decision the system makes. VaultSort isn't just a Hazel alternative anymore. It's the new standard.
Scheduled Jobs — Your Rules Run While You Sleep
Advanced Organization is powerful on its own. Scheduled Jobs makes it automatic.
VaultSort now includes a launchd-based scheduling system — the same native macOS scheduling infrastructure the OS itself uses. Create a schedule (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or custom), assign an Advanced Organization job, and enable it.
Your rules fire on schedule whether VaultSort is open or not. The app launches in headless mode, executes the job, logs the result, and exits. Every run is recorded with timestamps, file counts, and duration.
- Enable/disable toggle — pause any schedule without deleting it
- "Run Now" button — trigger any job manually with one click
- Run history — review the last 10 executions for any task
- Extensible architecture — built to support future task types beyond organization
No other Mac file automation tool gives you both real-time folder monitoring and scheduled batch automation in a single app.
Space Saver — Reclaim Gigabytes in Seconds
Your Mac is hoarding temporary files. Browser caches, app caches, old logs, Xcode DerivedData, system temp files — quietly consuming gigabytes of storage.
Space Saver finds them all with a Rust-powered parallel scanner that sweeps 24 cache categories simultaneously across all CPU cores. In our testing, it recovered 24 GB on a single developer Mac — and the entire scan completed in under 10 seconds.
What makes it different from CleanMyMac and similar tools:
- Three-layer safety model. Every file is classified (Safe-to-Delete, Conditionally Safe, or Excluded) before you see it. Global exclusion patterns protect databases, tokens, keychains, and user data. Running-app detection warns you before touching active caches.
- Category-level control. See exactly how much space each category uses. Expand any category to individual apps. Select or deselect at any level. No "8 GB of junk — click Clean" black boxes.
- No subscription. CleanMyMac charges $40/year. Space Saver is included in VaultSort for $19.99 — once.
Operation Log — Full Transparency for Every Action
VaultSort 2.0 introduces a centralized Operation Log — a persistent, queryable record of every significant action the app performs.
Organization jobs, Space Saver cleanups, scheduled task executions — every operation is logged with timestamps, file counts, status, and details. You always know what happened, when, and why.
This isn't just a debugging tool. It's a trust guarantee. When automation runs in the background while you're away from your Mac, the Operation Log is your proof that everything went exactly as planned.
The Full Picture
VaultSort 2.0 ships alongside everything that was already there — Auto-Organize, Undo-Organize, Deduplicate, Secure Delete, AES-256 Encryption with YubiKey support, Disk Shredding, Large File Finder, Storage Breakdown, and Batch Jobs.
All of it. One app. $19.99. No subscription.
Thank you for being part of this. Whether you've been here since day one or you're just hearing about VaultSort for the first time — we built this update for you.
This is the Mac file management tool we always wanted to exist. Now it does.
— The VaultSort Team
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