Your Mac, like new. For real.
Is your Mac slow after moving your account with Time Machine or Migration Assistant? Revive repairs your account, without creating a new user and without touching your files.
A new Mac, your account moved over from the old one, and ever since Privacy & Security takes seconds to open and apps hesitate before launching. Yet a brand-new user is fast. It isn't the Mac's fault: your account carries settings made for the old computer. Revive finds them and repairs them.
Your Mac fast again after a migration.
You moved your account to a new Mac and since then something is off: the Mac is slower than it should be, yet a new user is lightning fast. Creating a new user and copying everything by hand is slow and painful: Revive repairs the account you already have.
The first step is a safe check of your account. Revive looks at permissions, startup items, preferences and keychain, without touching anything.
Revive shows what's wrong, explained without jargon, with a colored label telling you how much you'll gain. Problems are sorted by benefit, and the ones worth fixing are already selected.
If you want to know exactly what will be touched, open the details to see every single file or permission, and leave out anything you prefer to keep as it is.
Before touching anything Revive makes a backup. Every repair stays in the history: one click on Restore puts everything back exactly as it was. After a restart your Mac feels responsive again.
When a new version is out Revive tells you with a notification: click Download and install and it updates and reopens by itself. It also has a built-in guide and speaks five languages.
Pick the file for your system. Every download comes straight from the official releases on GitHub.
Open the DMG and drag Revive into Applications, then open it from there. On first launch grant Full Disk Access: Revive walks you through it.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon (M1, M2, M3, M4…) and Intel Macs.
Free.
No. It only moves configuration files into a backup you can restore whenever you like. Documents, photos, music and mail are never touched.
Yes. The analysis changes nothing and every repair can be undone from the history, with the clock icon at the top of the window.
Time Machine and Migration Assistant copy your account as it is, including permissions and settings tied to the old computer. macOS keeps checking them for nothing and slows down. A new user doesn't have those leftovers, which is why everything is fast there.
No: once after a migration is usually enough. You can analyze again anytime, also from the menu bar icon.
You need macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Revive runs on both Apple silicon Macs (M1, M2, M3, M4…) and Intel Macs.
Revive isn't on the App Store yet, so on first launch macOS may show a warning. Close it with Done, open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll to Security and click Open Anyway. You only need to do this once.
Then the slowdown probably isn't caused by the migration. Revive does one thing, precisely.
Revive is free: if it gave you back a fast Mac, you can return the favor. Donations pay for Apple's code-signing certificate, so macOS stops asking for confirmation on first launch, and for the time to build the next versions.
